Erica Fischer (born 1 January 1943 in

St. Albans St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman r ...

) is an Austrian writer, translator, and women's rights activist. She is best known for her book ''Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943'' (1994), about

Lilly Wust Charlotte Elisabeth Wust ( Kappler; 1 November 1913 – 31 March 2006) was a German housewife, the wife of a German banking accountant and soldier during World War II. She was known for her romantic relationship with Felice Schragenheim, a Jew ...

and

Felice Schragenheim Felice Rahel Schragenheim (9 March 1922 – between 31 December 1944 and March 1945) was a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II. She is known for her tragic love story with Lilly Wust. She was murdered either on a death march from Gross- ...

, which was adapted into the 1999 film ''

Aimée & Jaguar ''Aimée & Jaguar'' is a 1999 German drama film set in Berlin during World War II. It was written and directed by Max Färberböck and based on Erica Fischer's book chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during tha ...

''. The book won Fischer a

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in 1996. In 2009, Fischer was the recipient of the Hedwig Dohm certificate from the Association of Women Journalists.

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