Aimée & Jaguar

Movie by Senator Film, released in 1999
Documentary Film by BBC, London
US edition received the Lammy Award as the best lesbian biography

Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim.

It was love almost at first sight. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. But their luck didn’t last. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported.

At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimée and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition.

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 15.03.2005
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-03499-8
  • 368 Pages
  • Author: Erica Fischer
Buchcover von Aimée & Jaguar: Ein Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943
Erica Fischer Aimée & Jaguar
Portrait von Erica Fischer
Erica Fischer

Erica Fischer , geboren 1943 in der englischen Emigration der Eltern, 1948 Rückkehr nach Österreich, Studium am Dolmetsch-Institut der Universität Wien, Feministin der ersten Stunde in Wien, seit Mitte der 70er Jahre publizistisch tätig, lebt seit 1988 als freie Journalistin, Schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin in Deutschland, seit 1994 in Berlin.