Kurt Hiller, Maxine Feldman, Frederick the Great, Lotte Hahm
Born: Kurt Hiller (1885)
Died: Maxine Feldman (2007), Frederick the Great (1786), Lotte Hahm (1967)
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17AugDied 200719th anniversary of death
Maxine Feldman
Maxine Feldman brought lesbian desire and anger into public performance before Stonewall. Songs, comedy and a refusal to hide helped create the culture from which the women's music movement grew.
17AugDied 1786240th anniversary of deathFrederick the Great
A Prussian king whose military ambitions and intellectual life sit beside a much-debated private history.
17AugDied 196759th anniversary of deathLotte Hahm
Lotte Hahm organised clubs, publications and meeting places that helped Berlin’s lesbian and gender-diverse communities build lives together.