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11 Facts About Gertrud Alexander

1.

Gertrud Alexander made her mark as an author, journalist and art critic.

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Gertrud Alexander's published output appears and is archived under a range of identities as follows:.

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Gertrud Alexander attended the University of Jena, moving on to the Arts Academy in Eisenach and then to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

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Gertrud Alexander funded her education by working as a teacher of drawing.

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Gertrud Alexander continued to be employed by the secondary schools teaching service as an art teacher till 1908.

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Gertrud Alexander was a law student at Jena and later, from 1911, a Berlin lawyer.

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Gertrud Gaudin and Eduard Ludwig Alexander married one another in Berlin in 1908.

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8.

Gertrud Alexander got to know Clara Zetkin in 1907 and began working for the social democratic press: one of her early assignments involved writing a series of articles during 1909 entitled "Die Prometheussage" for the women's news journal "Die Gleichheit".

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The party was consciously modeled on structures devised by Lenin, and within its Agitprop department, Gertrud Alexander headed up the culture department.

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Gertrud Alexander took responsibility for the "Feuilleton" supplement in the party newspaper Die Rote Fahne.

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Gertrud Alexander held a job as political editor at the "Main Moscow National Library" and at the "Lenin Library".