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A political work by a female author
📌 Read a political book written by a female author from Germany! 📌

Female German authors have always been very political and very vocal.

Refer to the prompt below for some names, most of those authors also wrote political works. You can also read some speeches by famous politicians from the first half of the 20th century.
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Sich nicht regieren lassen: Rosa Luxemburg zu Demokratie und linker Organisierung. Ein Lesebuch by Miriam Pieschke, Rosa Luxemburg, Lutz Brangsch

Sich nicht regieren lassen: Rosa Luxemburg zu Demokratie und linker Organisierung. Ein Lesebuch

Miriam Pieschke, Rosa Luxemburg, Lutz Brangsch

210 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history philosophy politics
Haare auf Krawall: Jugendsubkultur in Leipzig 1980 bis 1991 by Connie Mareth, Ray Schneider

Haare auf Krawall: Jugendsubkultur in Leipzig 1980 bis 1991

Connie Mareth, Ray Schneider

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history
City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud by Christa Wolf

City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud

Christa Wolf

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction dark reflective slow-paced
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers, James A. Galston

The Seventh Cross

Anna Seghers, James A. Galston

441 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)

fiction classics reflective sad medium-paced
Grenzenlos und unverschämt by May Ayim

Grenzenlos und unverschämt

May Ayim

192 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry challenging informative medium-paced
Blues In Black And White: A Collection Of Essays, Poetry, And Conversations by May Ayim

Blues In Black And White: A Collection Of Essays, Poetry, And Conversations

May Ayim

179 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out by Julia Berger, Abena Adomako, Anne V. Adams, May Ayim, Dagmar Schultz, Katharina Oguntoye

Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out

Julia Berger, Abena Adomako, Anne V. Adams, May Ayim, Dagmar Schultz, Katharina Oguntoye

272 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction race sociology challenging reflective medium-paced
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt

On Revolution

Hannah Arendt

336 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

527 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

312 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced