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Christa Winsloe (1888-1944) was a 20th century German novelist, playwright and sculptor, best known for her play Gestern und heute, filmed in 1931 as "Mädchen in Uniform". Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Mädchen in Uniform ( 1931, 89 minutes 16 mm) is a German feature-length film based on a Novel by Christa Winsloe

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Biography

Born in Darmstadt, she entered the Potsdam boarding school Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift as a pupil after her mother's early death. Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland Also see Potsdam New York (in the USA For the Potsdam Conference see Potsdam Conference. In this institution, young noble girls were drilled to become mothers of soldiers and to learn discipline and submission. As an adult, Winsloe wrote the novel Das Mädchen Manuela ("The Child Manuela") based on this experience, from which she then created the stage play Gestern und heute ("Yesterday and Today")[1].

The play appeared in 1930 in Leipzig under the title Ritter Nérestan ("Knight Nérestan") and then in Berlin as Krankheit der Liebe ("Sickness of Love"), the original title having been rejected as too insipid. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. The play's success led to the production of the film version "Mädchen in Uniform", on which Winsloe was a screenwriter, made in 1931, which become the world's best film of the year. Mädchen in Uniform ( 1931, 89 minutes 16 mm) is a German feature-length film based on a Novel by Christa Winsloe This was not only due to its ambitiously aesthetic form and the fact that only women performed. Equally important was the reduction of the lesbian aspects in this film version and their depiction as an adolescent crush, even though Winsloe co-authored the script and Leontine Sagan, who in the stage version of Gestern und heute had stressed the lesbian aspect, acted as director. A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women Leontine Sagan (b Leontine Schlesinger, February 13, 1889 &ndash May 20, 1974) was an Austrian actress and theatre director

The play ends differently from the film. In the play, the young student, Manuela, is destroyed because of rejection by her teacher, Fräulein Elizabeth von Bernburg, who did not dare to side with Manuela against the headmistress and to oppose the brutal educational methods. The pupil commits suicide. The film is more hopeful, with von Bernburg defending the student and herself. Christa Winsloe may be credited with the first sensitive play on female homosexuality in the Weimar Republic, but without a radical critique of the social discrimination against lesbian women. The term Weimar Republic ( ˈvaɪmarɐ repuˈbliːk is used by historians to signify the democratic and Republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933

On the strength of the play's acclaim, Christa Winsloe moved to Berlin, where a lesbian culture thrived. She was wealthy, as she had previously been briefly married to Baron Ludwig Hatvany (1880-1961), a rich Hungarian writer and landowner, who after the marriage broke up, continued to make her a generous allowance. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic She worked as an animal sculptor and had a wide circle of friends. She was a member of the SPD (German Socialist Party), and was openly bisexual.

She moved to France in the late 1930s, fleeing the Nazis, and joined the French Resistance. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German Contrary to what is often believed, she was not executed by the Nazis; instead, on June 10, 1944, Winsloe and a woman companion were shot and killed by four Frenchman in the forest near Cluny. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The town and commune of Cluny or Clugny lies in the modern-day département of Saône-et-Loire in the région Claiming that they thought the women were spies, the murderers were later acquitted. [2]

Only two photographs of Christa Winsloe survive:[1] and [2]

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References

  1. ^ B. Ruby Rich (1998), Chick Flicks - CL: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, Duke University Press, ISBN 0-8223-2121-1, <http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0822321211&id=DsRnApVNDFMC&pg=RA1-PA197&lpg=RA1-PA197&ots=ZE32y4kE4B&dq=%22Christa+Winsloe%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=swqbmmJxbgngeM73XmsCAq4RSY0> 
  2. ^ Wayne M. Bryant (1997), Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anais to Zee, Haworth Press, ISBN 0-7890-0142-X, <http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN078900142X&id=pp3uzTxk4fwC&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&ots=vVvubPnmZd&dq=%22Christa+Winsloe%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=_3Lk4bly4mM2cpGl7D7o7DN_4yY> 

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