Ucropia o morte

Funny Fahne Bohémienne
https://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/the-bohemian-countess-and-her-foster-fatherland/
Germany has never truly appreciated the writer born 150 years ago today in Husum as Countess Fanny (later Franziska) zu Reventlow. You won’t see her face on stamps, stumble on a six-part series about her on Netflix, or find a handomely endowed foundation in her name. But the indifference, as a recently discovered essay shows, was mutual. Written at the height of World War One, it is a cold reckoning with the writer’s homeland which offers a powerful warning from history – a warning against heedless nationalism, manufactured hatred and the rush to conflict.
If Reventlow is undervalued in Germany, she is almost completely unknown in the rest of the world, but her story offers no end of hooks. She was possibly the most liberated woman of the early 20th century, her heroic self-determination putting her decades ahead of her time. Her life and work – the two are profoundly connected – offer passion, sex, scandal, intrigue, tragedy, bravery, beauty, humour, war, family feuds, fancy titles and some fearlessly original answers to the question of how to fill that tricky period between birth and death.