Maximiliane Ackers

Maximiliane Ackers (September 24, 1896, in Saarbrücken – April 17, 1982, in Glonn) was a lesbian German author and actress famous for writing lesbian fiction.

Biography Ackers was an actress in theater and cabarets in Göttingen, Riga, and Berlin. In the early 1920s, Ackers began working in films, writing and starring in the silent film Burning Country (Brennendes Land). In 1921, she was in the cast of Florentine Nights: the Adventures of the Count of Costa (Florentinische Nächte: Die Abenteuer der Gräfin da Costa), written by Heinrich Heine.

Ackers moved to Hannover in 1927 with her partner, the artist Irma Johanna Schäfer; they moved to the small town of Glonn in 1935. Ackers died in Glonn in 1982. The novel explores lesbian desire in the setting of the artistic and theatrical society of Weimar Berlin. Selections from the book appeared in An Encyclopedia of German Writers, 1900-1933.