Anna Elisabet Weirauch (August 7, 1887 - December 21, 1970)

Anna Elisabet Weirauch is best remembered for her three-volume lesbian novel Der Skorpion (The Scorpion) set during the Weimar Republic.

Born in Galatz, Rumania, Weirauch was moved, along with her sister, by her mother to Germany upon their father's death in 1891. By the turn of the century, they were living in Berlin, where Anna Elisabet studied acting. From 1906 to 1914, she was a member of Max Reinhardt's prestigious ensemble at the Deutsches Theater.

Although she had written plays, she discovered after the war that her real talent lay in writing prose. Clearly, she had been writing for some time already since four novels and three novellas all appeared in 1919, the beginning of her long career. One of these was the first volume of Der Skorpion (The Scorpion), the work for which Weirauch is remembered today.

This three-volume lesbian Entwicklungsroman (a novel that traces the development of its main character from childhood into young adulthood) follows Mette Rudloff from her troubled childhood, in search of love and of answers about her "different" sexuality, to her acceptance of her nature and the possibility that she can now find the love she has sought.

The first volume portrays her from childhood through her early twenties. Olga, the first woman she loves, succumbs to the view of homosexual love as decadent and futile. After breaking off their relationship, she commits suicide. Mette's family hires a psychiatrist to "cure" her, but Mette refuses to accept a medical view of lesbians as aberrant and diseased.

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Author: Jones, James W.
Entry Title: Weirauch, Anna Elisabet
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Publication Date: 2002
Date Last Updated November 23, 2002
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Today's Date December 21, 2012
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Entry Copyright © 1995, 2002 New England Publishing Associates

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David Clement & Doug Wright

Doug Wright (born December 21, 1962) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play, I Am My Own Wife.

Wright lives in Lower Manhattan, New York City with his husband, singer/songwriter David Clement. On May 16, 2008, a day after the California supreme court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage, David Clement proposed to his partner Doug Wright, on a Post-it note (they were together since 2003). The note, attached to a wooden Hello Kitty picture frame bearing a Halloween snapshot of the couple, said, “Marry me quickly! Love, David.” Wright said yes. Doug Wright and David Clement were married in August 28, 2008. Wright said that the decision to get married was a mutual one and they had been discussing it for a long time. Both men's parents and a few intimate friends assembled together for their wedding at the Casa Del Mar hotel in Santa Monica, California.

Wright was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended and graduated from Highland Park High School, in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where he excelled in the theater department and was President of the Thespian Club in 1981. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985. He earned his M.F.A. from New York University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the boards of Yaddo and New York Theatre Workshop. He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. (Picture: David Clement)

Wright’s play Quills premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 1995 and subsequently had its debut Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. The play recounts the imagined final days in the life of the Marquis de Sade. Quills garnered the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, a 1996 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. In 2000, Wright wrote the screenplay for the film version of Quills which starred Geoffrey Rush.


Doug Wright and Family at the opening night performance of 'The Little Mermaid' at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre New York City, USA - 10.01.08
Doug Wright is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play, I Am My Own Wife. Wright lives in Lower Manhattan, New York City with his husband, singer/songwriter David Clement. On May 16, 2008, a day after the California supreme court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage, Clement proposed to Wright, on a Post-it note (they were together since 2003). Doug Wright and David Clement were married in August 28, 2008.

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