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Christa Winsloe (23 December 1888 – 10 June 1944), formerly Baroness Christa von Hatvany-Deutsch, was a German-Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor, best known for her play Gestern und heute (known under several titles, see below), filmed in 1931 as Mädchen in Uniform and the 1958 remake.
Christa Winsloe - Nominee. 1888 - 1944. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, Christa Winsloe was sent to a strict boarding school in Potsdam. School was followed by her marriage to a wealthy writer, Baron Ludwig Hatvany.
German playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and sculptor . Born in Germany in 1888; killed in 1944; married and divorced; had a relationship with Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961).
A victory of love, of lesbian love over Prussian drill and blind obedience? Christa Winsloe, born December 23 rd, 1888 in Darmstadt as an officer's daughter, entered the Potsdam boarding school Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift as pupil after the early death of her mother.
Mädchen in Uniform ("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play Gestern und heute ( Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who also funded the film. Winsloe also wrote the screenplay and was on the set during filming.
Christa Winsloe was a German-Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor, best known for her play "Gestern und heute", the first sensitive play on female homosexuality in the Weimar Republic yet without a radical critique of the social discrimination of lesbian women. ...more.
Jun 17, 2021 · Sagan herself was a woman of ambiguous sexuality. She was working from a screenplay by her friend Christa Winsloe, an out lesbian drawing on her own formative years in Potsdam for the story.
