Arriving in Munich in 1890, Gabriele Reuter experiences a city undergoing transformation. She comes across women with beautiful youths’ heads, gets to know the author Emma Merk and the women’s rights campaigner Anita Augspurt, who runs a photography studio with her girlfriend Sophia Goudstikker. This is the origin of a women’s movement that pushed open the window to Modernity. Out with the stink of Wilhelminism! New roles for women and men are being tried out, new ways of living and new forms of sexuality. At the centre are female artists and bestselling authors, who spread their progressive ideas throughout Europe. At the First Women’s Congress in 1899, demands for the future are formulated, which are still valid today.
For the first time, Ingvild Richardsen tells this exciting story of a forgotten chapter of the German female emancipation movement
