Erica Fischer

Erica Fischer was born in 1943 in the English exile of her parents, who returned to Austria after the war. She studied at the Centre for Translations Studies at the University of Vienna and co-founded the New Women's Movement in Vienna in the early 1970s. In 1988 she moved to Germany and since then has lived in Berlin as a writer and book translator. Her most important works include Aimee & Jaguar – A Love Story, Berlin 1943 (1994, translated into 20 languages and made/turnded into film/adapted for screen/filmed), Die Liebe der Lena Goldnadel (2000), Die Wertheims (2004, with Simone Ladwig-Winters), Himmelstraße (2007) and most recently Feminismus Revisited (2019).