Christa Winsloe

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Christa Winsloe (1888-1944) was a 20th century Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor. She moved to Vienna in the 1920s and there achieved success in 1930 with her play Yesterday & Today which deals with pedagogical eros. On the strength of the play's acclaim, she moved to Weimar Berlin where a lesbian culture thrived. She was wealthy since she had married very young in a marriage that lasted only weeks, and thereafter her estranged husband paid her a generous allowance. 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. The Nazis captured and executed her in 1944.^[1] Only two photographs of Christa Winsloe survive. [1] [2] Her novel The Child Manuela was the basis of a play and then the film Mädchen in Uniform (1931), for which she was the screenwriter.^[2]

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1. ^ Wayne M. Bryant (1997), Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anais to Zee , Haworth Press, ISBN 078900142X
2. ^ B. Ruby Rich (1998), Chick Flicks - CL: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement , Duke University Press, ISBN 0822321211