Frame and Preparation Die Kindermörderin Content warnings: violence, infanticide, sexual assault Conceptual Frames and Background Introduction Wagner’s play is based on the historical problematic during the 18th-century of the so-called ‘fallen women’ whose pregnancies outside of marriage, sometimes unwanted, would mean a dramatic loss of status if they were made known to the bourgeois or…
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Fleißer, “Jahrhundert – gedrittelt,” 1933
A discussion on the first third of the 20th century from the perspective of women’s rights and the feminist movement in Germany.