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Eva Gräfin von Baudissin
1869–1943
A once-popular German writer and journalist, she moved easily between fiction, essays, theater, and newer media like radio and film. Her work was widely read in the early 20th century, then largely slipped from view.
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»Sie« am Seil
by Eva Gräfin von Baudissin
About the author
Born Eva Fanny Bernhardine Türk in Lübeck on October 8, 1869, she became known as Eva Gräfin von Baudissin after her marriage. She was a German writer who also published under the pseudonym Bernhard von Brandenburg, and she died in Munich on February 11, 1943.
Baudissin built a varied literary career. Sources describe her as a novelist, storyteller, dramatist, and journalist whose writings included feuilletons, essays, sketches, novellas, plays, and novels. She also worked for radio and film, which gives a sense of how adaptable and modern her career was for its time.
She was well known in her day, including beyond Germany, and several of her books went through multiple editions. Later accounts note that she belongs to a group of highly successful early-20th-century women writers who were later forgotten, which makes her an especially interesting author to rediscover now.