Karin Michaëlis

Karin Michaëlis was born in Randers in 1872 under the name Katharina Bech-Brøndum, the daughter of a telegraph clerk, in a modest household where her mother wove wreaths to supplement the income. She wrote more than seventy books, a sought-after lecturer and peace activist in the German-speaking countries until 1933. An anti-fascist, she supported German intellectuals in flight, among them Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, spent the years 1939 to 1946 in the United States and received the Medal of Freedom in 1946. She died in Copenhagen in 1950.

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• NovelThe Dangerous AgeDen farlige alderKarin Michaëlis · 1910LiteraturePublic domain