Jump to content

Christiane Ritter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christiane Ritter (13 July 1897, in Karlsbad – 29 December 2000, in Vienna) was an Austrian writer. She is best known for her book A Woman in the Polar Night about her stay on Svalbard in 1933.[1][2] Originally published in 1938, her book is one of the few accounts written from a female perspective detailing life outside civilizations before the 20th century.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Jones, Lucy (22 February 2020). "Christiane Ritter: Why this forgotten feminist nature writer deserves to be celebrated". The Independent. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  2. ^ Brandt, Harald (17 October 2015). "Eine Lange Nacht über Spitzbergen". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-23.