| LC control no. | no 89012583 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Marie Madeleine, 1881-1944 |
| Variant(s) | Madeleine, Marie, 1881-1944 Marie Madeleine, b. 1881 Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine Günther, Freifrau von, 1881-1944 Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine von, Baroness, 1881-1944 Gunther, Gertrude, 1881-1944 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000107883422 |
| Biography/History note | In 1900 a teenage Jewish girl, hiding under the pseudonym Marie-Madeleine, pens a book of erotic poetry that becomes a bestseller, sparking strong criticisms. She marries into a Prussian noble family while she hides in dozens of books as a passionate voice of love, lesbianism and sexuality. Nazis doomed her work by labeling it "degenerate art" and the world soon forgot her. In [Priestess of morphine], Marie-Madeleine's newly translated work reveals a life-long relationship with morphine that ends with her mysterious death in a sanatorium under Nazi care. |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1881-04-08 |
| Death date | 1944-09-27 |
| Place of birth | East Prussia (Germany) |
| Place of death | Katzenelnbogen (Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Authors |
| Found in | Her Die drei Nächte, 1901, surrogate: t.p. (Marie Madeleine) OCLC data base, 9/1/89 (hdg.: Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine Günther, Freifrau von, 1881- ; usage: Marie Madeleine; Marie-Madeleine) OCLC database, 6 September 2016 (access points: Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine von, Baroness, Puttkamer, Marie Madeliene Günther von, Friefrau, 1881-; usage: Marie-Madeleine, M.M. von Puttkamer) German National Library in VIAF, 6 September 2016 (access point: Marie-Madeleine, 1881-1944) Marie Madeleine. Priestess of morphine: the lost writings of Marie Madeleine in the time of the Nazis, ©2015: title page (Marie-Madeleine) page 19 (Gertrude Günther was born on April 4, 1881 in Eydtkuhnen, a small settlement in East Prussia) page 39 (Yet it was there inside the Katzenelnbogen Sanatorium that Gertrud, Baroness von Puttkamer (a.k.a. Marie-Madeleine) died on September 27, 1944 among suspicious circumstances while under the supervising care of Nazis. Untrained, anti-Semitic physicians ran the clinic.) |
| Associated language | ger |
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