Dora Benjamin wrote just as well about poison gas as she wrote about discrimination against women or music in silent films. And that at a time when the Holocaust was no more than a premonition and men seemed to dominate all areas of social life. Dora Benjamin was unique, even if her genius was always hidden by that of her husband Walter Benjamin. Despite her unusual independence, she fell for him and forgave him for his countless affairs. This book deals for the first time in detail with the dramatic relationship between the couple, two people who, due to their lack of conformity and their Jewish ancestry, always remained homeless, but who dealt with it very differently. An exciting couples biography, the focus of which is a woman whose life, characterized by self-fulfillment, self-sacrificing love, flight and persecution, is still relevant today.
