Annette Kolb (pseudonym of Anna Mathilde Kolb) was an author, journalist, emigrée and pacifist.

Life

Kolb was born on 3 February 1870 in

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, the daughter of a French pianist mother and a German landscape architect father. She was an author, emigré and pacifist. She became active in

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ''a ...

causes during

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and this caused her political difficulties from then on. Kolb was in contact with other pacifists and war opponents, such as Berta Zuckerkandl, whom she met in 1917 in Switzerland. She left Germany in February 1933, immediately after Hitler's seizing of power for France, later the USA. She returned in 1945 after the war. Her works were banned during the Third Reich. She wrote novels on social issues, the three novels between 1914 and 1934 (see Works) are considered her main oeuvre, and in later life also nonfiction. In 1955 she won the

Goethe Prize The Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt () is an award for achievement "worthy of honour in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" made by the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was usually an annual award until 1955, and thereafter has been ...

. She died on 3 December 1967 Munich.

Works

''Das Exemplar.'' A novel
Berlin, S. Fischer, 1913. * ''Daphne Herbst.'' A novel. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1927. * ''Die Schaukel.'' A novel. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1934. * ''

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''. Chicago: Henry Rednery Company, 1956.

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