Statue of the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) on the promenade in Landskrona. The figure looks out over the Öresund. Between 1885 and 1895, when she was teaching in Landskrona, Selma Lagerlöf often went for walks along the waterfront / © Photo: Georg Berg

Selma Lagerlöf in Landskrona

Shortly before sunset, the wild geese land in the shallow waters of the Öresund. Did Selma Lagerlöf watch them? Did she get the idea for the wonderful journey of Nils Holgersson in Landskrona?

Rosina Tabone in front of her restaurant Ta' Rosina in the village of Sannat on Gozo / © Photo: Georg Berg

Ta‘ Rosina on Gozo

For Gozitans, Rosina Tabone is a national treasure. In her small restaurant in the village of Sannat, she serves traditional dishes and talks to locals

Advertising banner for the Paula-Modersohn-Becker Museum in Böttcherstrasse in Bremen. It is the world's first museum dedicated to a female painter and was opened in 1927. It was commissioned by Kaffee HAG founder and patron Ludwig Roselius and built by sculptor Bernhard Hoetger / © Photo: Georg Berg

Paula in Paris, Chicago, Bremen

In Bremen, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first woman to have her own museum dedicated to her. And at the Art Institute Chicago, the first major retrospective: “I am Me”

Artist Sevcan Çerkez (born 1961 in Nicosia) has received numerous awards for her expressive ceramic works. She also uses her figures to address the problems of Cyprus / © Photo: Georg Berg

Strong women

On our travels, we often meet women with exciting CVs and unusual professions that require creativity, courage and perseverance

Living in the lighthouse

Mission Point Lighthouse is a very special vacation spot. The vacation apartment in an exposed location can only be rented by those who apply to be a temporary lighthouse keeper. The job is particularly popular with women

Nicosia. City with border experience

The circular city center of Nicosia has had a crack in it since 1964. The Green Line runs through the middle of the winding streets. Border crossings are possible

Bizarre situation: A kimono-wearing masked couple in Tokyo, Japan / © Photo: Georg Berg

Yayoi Kusama. Art by the sea

Yayoi Kusama is the most famous artist in Japan. In the Setouchi region on the island of Naoshima are her famous pumpkins with polka dots.

Annabelle Hirsch, journalist with German-French roots explains the genesis of her first book. Things. A history of women in 100 objects / © Photo: Georg Berg

Things. A history of women

For Annabelle Hirsch, everyday objects are not trivia, but access to history. Her look at 100 objects opens a Wunderkammer of femininity

Crazy Reykjavik

If you don’t get depressed in the Icelandic winter, you come up with the craziest ideas. So does the Lady Brewery with a useful slightly sticky label

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