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The literary scholar Angela Steidele has dealt with the life and love of lesbian women, especially in the period before 1850. On the basis of scientific sources, she illuminates little-known areas of the history of love and desire between same-sex women in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Angela Steidele bei der Verleihung des Bayerischen Buchpreises 2015 (Ausschnitt)
The focus is on life and love stories of historical figures such as Catharina Linck, Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens, as well as contemporary concepts of illness, sexuality and gender in epochs in which "the self-understanding of a homosexual identity did not historically exist".
