From 1927 to 1931 Selma "Selli" Engler has been one of the most known writers of the Weimar lesbian movement, she published more than 100 texts during these few years. This bibliography intends to give easier access to her work and to contemporary texts on Engler.

This thesis deals with the life and work of Stefi Kiesler focussing on her achievements in the field of literature and literary criticism. The estate of Stefi Kiesler in the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation in Vienna serves as main source. Additional material comes from archives like the Austrian National Library's Department of Manuscripts or the Exile Library of the Literaturhaus Wien. A large part of the material has never been published before. The introductory chapter reconstructs Stefi Kiesler's biography, summarizing the state of knowledge as well as pointing at gaps that require further research. The stations of her life are presented in four subchapters: birth in 1897 in Skoczów, studying in Vienna, living amidst artistic circles in Paris and eventually emigration to New York, where she lived and worked until her death in 1963. The thesis' main part deals with Stefi Kiesler focussing on the three aspects listed in the title: artist's wife – networker – writer. The relationship with her husband, the artist and architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965), is hard to evaluate due to the lack of corresponding sources. Comparisons with contemporaries like Gala Éluard Dalí, Agnes Gorky, Nelly van Doesburg and Jacqueline Lamba deliver insight into various attitudes of 20th century artists' wives. Her employment in the New York Public Library is closely described. The position as manager of the German and French Collection enabled her specifically during World War II to help numerous refugees from Europe. Among them were Friedrich Torberg, Mimi Grossberg and Hertha Pauli, to name just a few. Kiesler's literary estate is so far only rudimentarily accessible to researchers, which inhibits in-depth analysis. Picking out a few examples, this thesis provides an overview of the wide range of her literary doings, including typewriter-pictures, short stories, translations, an anthology about dreams in literature as well as a series of articles written for the German-Jewish journal Aufbau. Explanations concerning a literary award planned by Frederick Kiesler in honor of his wife complete this text.

Hedwig Anneler was one of the first women to achieve a Ph.D. from the University of Bern, and her thesis was one of the first monographs dedicated to the Jewish military colony of Elephantine in Achaemenid Egypt, after most of the papyri had been edited in 1906 and 1911. J.H. Stadler traces the life of Hedwig Anneler (part I+II) and E.A. Knauf places Hedwig Anneler’s thesis in the context of Elephantine studies and the history of Israel (part III). Hedwig Anneler became a prolific writer. She fought against discrimination (of women and of Jews), iniquity, and violence. She died 1969, two years before Swiss women were granted the right to vote.

Ottilie Wildermuth gehört zu den meistgelesenen deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts. In ihrem Werk setzte sie sich vielfach mit christlichen Themen auseinander. Immer wieder streute sie auch moralische Sentenzen in ihre Schriften ein, grenzte sich aber gleichzeitig aber von der sogenannten Traktatliteratur ab. Leben und Werk Wildermuths offenbart eine Nähe zum Pietismus und zu wichtigen Vertretern der Erweckungsbewegung.

Taking the example of the remarkable political career of Emmy Stradal, a political newcomer at the beginning of the First Austrian Republic who became an active and effective member of the Austrian parliament for the Pan-German People's Party between 1920 and 1923, this article investigates the emerging political culture of the country built out of the remains of the Habsburg Empire after 1918. It suggests that, while the whole interwar period has to be seen from the perspective of the destruction of democracy in the 1930s, the early 1920s can also be analysed as a period of opening up and searching for new political forms, as the existing parties had to adjust to both the altered position of the parliament and women's suffrage. The first part of the paper looks into Emmy Stradal's personal development as the middle-class wife of a senior government official and mother of four children and investigates her proto-feminist opinions, which were expressed in unpublished lite...