Ruth Roellig

Background

Roellig was born in Schwiebus.

Career

Her parents were Anna and Otto Roehlig. After school in Berlin, Roellig began to write works. Her first book was Geflüster im Dunkel in 1913.

Roellig became newspaper contributing editor in Berlin.

Roellig wrote in 1920s several books over her travels to Finland, Bonn and Paris. She wrote several articles in German lesbian magazine Frauenliebe.

In 1928, Roellig published a city guide Berlins lesbische Frauen for lesbian people (with a prologue by Magnus Hirschfeld) In 1930 a second edition was published. Roellig wrote in 1930 an article in sexual education book Das lasterhafte Weib.

In 1943, her home in Berlin-Schöneberg was destroyed by an airstrike.

Roellig traveled to her house in Silesia. She wrote no book more after war. Roellig died on 31 July 1969 in Berlin-Schöneberg.

Sarah Colvin: Roellig, Ruth Margarete.

In: Who"s who in gay and lesbian history: from antiquity to World World War World War II published by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon. Routledge Verlag 2000. page 445

Claudia Schoppmann: Die innigsten Sympathien für den Führer.

Ruth Margarete Roellig.

Achievements

• In Berlin Roellig became famous as writer over lesbian themes.

Politics

After the Machtergreifung of Nazism the LGBT culture in Berlin was under pressure. Roellig who supported Nazism in 1930s wrote in 1937 her last book Soldaten, Tod und Tänzerin with antisemitic content.