Henny Koch (22 September 1854 – 13 June 1925) was a German children's author and translator. She was born in Alsfeld, Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1898 on, she lived in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in Hessia, Germany, where she died in 1925. She produced the first German translation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890. Henny Koch wrote 29 books, primarily targeting a young female audience. Her books were often serialized in the bourgeois illustrated girls' magazine "Das Kränzchen". Some titles were published in eight countries. Her most successful work was a series of novels, beginning with Papas Junge, in which you can accompany the protagonist through her life as a young girl, a mother and grandmother. A film has been made based on this novel Il birichino di papà, Italy, 1943, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo with music by Nino Rota.
Maria Emilie Snethlage was a German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage collected in Brazil from 1905 until her death. She was the director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi from 1914 to 1922. Several species of birds were described by her.
Alfred Maria Willner was an Austrian writer, philosopher, musicologist, composer and librettist.
Rosa Valetti was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer.
Leopoldine Konstantin was an Austrian actress. She played in Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening (1907), Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1907), A Winter's Tale (1908), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1910).
Walter de Haas (1886–1969), who wrote under the pseudonym Hanns Günther, was a prolific German author, translator, and editor of popular science books.
Lisa Wenger was a Swiss painter and writer of children's books. During the 1930s she was one of the best known and most widely read authors in the country.
Hermann Thimig was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1916 and 1967.
Gustav Falke was a German writer.
Rudolf Hans Bartsch was an Austrian military officer and writer.
Paul Oskar Höcker was a German editor and author, who also wrote under the pseudonym Heinz Grevenstett. He was one of the 88 signatories of the 1933 proclamation of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft.
Gabriele Reuter was a German writer.
Ernst Pittschau was a German stage and film actor.
Anna Eufemia Carolina Gräfin von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem was a German aristocratic novelist.
Annemarie von Nathusius, originally Anna Maria Luise von Nathusius, was a German novelist who wrote boldly about issues of women’s sexuality and lived a distinctly unconventional life. In her books, she criticized the sexual ignorance and exploitative marriages imposed on young women of her class. Her most successful novel was Das törichte Herz der Julie von Voß. The novel Malmaison 1922 was film adapted by Paul Ludwig Stein for the movie Es leuchtet meine Liebe.
Clementine Helm Beyrich was a widely read author of books for children and young adults who published her works during the period of the German Empire.
This is a list of writings published by Sigmund Freud. Books are either linked or in italics.
Ida Boy-Ed was a German writer. A supporter of women's issues, she wrote widely-read books and newspaper articles.
Rosa Porten was a prolific German screenwriter, actress, and director during the silent film era.
Clara Hepner also known by the pseudonym Klara Hepner, or Clara Muschner, Klara Muschner, sometimes Clara Hepner-Muschner, born Clara Freund in Görlitz, in Lower Silesia, Germany. She is best known as a poet and author of children's stories.
Lulu von Strauss und Torney (1873–1956) was a German poet and writer. Best remembered for her ballads, she also wrote historical fiction with rural settings in northwest Germany.
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