Ilse Langner

Overview

Ilse Langner born Breslau, Germany May 21, 1899 (d. 1987). German antiwar playwright and poet. Left Germany to travel Asia after Nazi regime instituted a ban on her works. Her first play “Mrs. Emma fights on the Homefront” blamed men for war, 1929; “Clytemnestra” offered an alternative feminist society of peace and gender equality, 1937.

Quotations

But your war was a bloody madness of men!” (“Mrs. Emma fights on the Homefront”; photo escritorasypensadores)