THE UNTOLD STORY – How Women Created the Modern World and Why We Don’t Know About Them

Women have always been changing the world: they have engaged in research, written works of world literature and introduced new epochs in the arts. However, history books fail to mention the names of these women. It wasn’t Walt Disney who invented animated films, it was a woman. Women were the first to discover and describe DNA, the first algorithms and nuclear fusion. It was a woman who gave modern sculpture the decisive impetus, just as it was a woman who brought the voices of the people on the street into Bertolt Brecht’s famous plays.

Vera Weidenbach rewrites history, and we are finally being told how much of an impact women like Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Immenwahr, Lucia Moholy, Nellie Bly and Margarete Steffin have had on our modern world.