Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) was a Swiss journalist, novelist, and photographer whose personal life is just as famous as her work. She was an heiress who was raised androgynous by her bisexual mother, had a close relationship to the family of author Thomas Mann (including a short-lived relationship with his daughter Erika), and, in exile, traveled to Italy, France, Scandinavia, Persia, Afghanistan, the USA, Turkestan and the Congo. Her most famous written works, including The Happy Valley and Death in Persia were written while living in a refuge in Switzerland during the war. After her accidental death at age 34, her mother, disappointed by her child’s political and personal views, destroyed her diaries and journals. What survives today was salvaged by her close friends.
Lessons on Schwarzenbach’s Work
- Sanyal, “Home,” 2019
- al-Mozany, Der Marschländer: Bagdad, Beirut, Berlin (1999)
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module: Writing the Self/Other
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module
- Robert Koch, Menschenexperimente, und Absagekultur (1882 und heute)
- Ein Virus kennt keine Moral Module, 1993
- Keça Filankes, “Zwei Çaylöffel Şekir,” 2020
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner, “Die Kindermörderin,” 1775
- Ostashevsky, “The Feeling Sonnets,” 2019
- Weyhe, “Rude Girl,” 2022
- Çatak, Das Lehrerzimmer, 2023
- Hügel-Marshall, Invisible Woman, 1993
Lessons from Related Themes
- Ein Virus kennt keine Moral Module, 1993
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner, “Die Kindermörderin,” 1775
- Friedrich Wolf, “Cyankali,” 1929 (Part 2)
- Friedrich Wolf, “Cyankali” 1929 (Part 1)
- Ulrike Ottinger, an Introduction to her Art
- Ulrike Ottinger, “Bildnis einer Trinkerin,” 1979
- Selimović and Ronen, Roma Armee, 2017
- Nura, “Fair,” 2021
