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About Lally Horstmann
Lally Horstmann was a German writer and salonnière. She had a privileged upbringing as member of the Berliner Jewish bourgeoisie. During her childhood, her family was elevated to the Prussian nobility by Wilhelm II. She married a German diplomat and art collector and became involved in literary and political salons. She authored two memoirs, Kein Grund für Tränen and Unendlich viel ist uns geblieben, which documented her life in Nazi Germany during World War II. Following her husband's death in a Soviet Gulag she fled to Brazil, where she died in 1954.
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- writer
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- 1879, March 17, 1898
- Died
- 1947, August 10, 1954