This article is for Annette Kolb the author, for Annette Kolb the tennis player see Annette Kolb (tennis)

Annette Kolb(born on February 3, 1870 in Munich

Munich

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; died December 3, 1967 in Munich) was the working name of German author and pacifist Anna Mathilde Kolb. She became active in pacifist

Pacifism

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 causes during World War I

World War I

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 and this caused her political difficulties from then on. She left Germany in the 1920s and her works were banned during the Third Reich. She wrote novels on high society and in later life wrote nonfiction about musicians. In 1955 she won the Goethe Prize

Goethe Prize

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See also

• Exilliteratur
  Exilliteratur
  German Exilliteratur is the name for a category of books in the German language written by writers of anti-nazi attitude who fled from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945...