1. Christa Winsloe, formerly Baroness Christa von Hatvany-Deutsch, was a German-Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor, best known for her play Gestern und heute, filmed in 1931 as Madchen in Uniform and the 1958 remake.
11 Facts About Christa Winsloe
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Christa Kate Winsloe was born in Darmstadt to the military officer Arthur Winsloe and his wife Katharina Elisabeth Scherz.
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Christa Winsloe was involved in a relationship with newspaper reporter Dorothy Thompson, probably before World War II when Thompson was reporting from Berlin.
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In 1930, Christa Winsloe wrote the play 'Knight Nerestan' which was produced in Leipzig and then Berlin under the title Gestern und heute.
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The lesbian aspect of the story was downplayed and depicted as an adolescent crush, even though Christa Winsloe co-authored the script, and Leontine Sagan, who in the play had stressed the lesbian aspect, acted as director.
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Christa Winsloe did not publish anymore after Das Madchen Manuela because she did not want to write under the rules and conditions of the German Literature Department.
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Christa Winsloe had plenty of money, worked as an animal sculptor, and had a wide circle of friends.
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Early in Third Reich, Christa Winsloe fled the Nazis with her partner, Dorothy Thompson.
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Christa Winsloe's scripts were rejected from Hollywood producers and she did not want to write in English, so she left Thompson and returned to Europe in 1935.
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Christa Winsloe spent the next years travelling between Italy, France, Hungary, Austria, and Germany.
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In October 1939, Christa Winsloe moved south and settled in Cagnes, where she met the Swiss author Simone Gentet.