Dagmar von Gersdorff, who holds a PhD in philosophy, studied German philology and art history at the Free University of Berlin. She lives in Berlin, where she works as a literary expert and biographer. She gained critical acclaim for her biographies on important literary and historical figures: Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Bettina and Achim von Arnim, Goethe's mother, Caroline von Günderrode, Prinz Wilhelm von Preußen and Elisa Radziwill, Caroline von Humboldt. Dagmar von Gersdorff is a member of the Writer’s Association and of International PEN.
Dagmar von Gersdorff, who holds a PhD in philosophy, studied German philology and art history at the Free University of Berlin. She lives in Berlin, where she works as a literary expert and biographer. She gained critical acclaim for her biographies on important literary and historical figures: Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Bettina and Achim von Arnim, Goethe's mother, Caroline von Günderrode, Prinz Wilhelm von Preußen and Elisa Radziwill, Caroline von Humboldt. Dagmar von Gersdorff is a member of the Writer’s Association and of International PEN.
Her life began like a novel. She was born not in her parent’s home, indeed not in any house at all, but in the Brazilian rain forest. Julia da Silva-Bruhns (1851-1923) grew up on a sugar-cane plantation near Rio de Janiero. At the age of eighteen she married the consul Johann Thomas Heinrich Mann in Lübeck. In the Hanseatic town she was an elegant beauty with fascinating flair. She was a...