This collection explores various facets of autobiographical writing, examining the interplay between self-presentation and identity through diverse lenses. Contributions include a discussion on the self-masking in autobiographies, the impact of autobiographical effects on self-presentation, and the autofictional role-play in the works of Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow. It delves into the remembered experiences of Lou Andreas-Salomé and her self-attribution, as well as female narrative identities in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's texts. The emotional dimensions of women's diaries around 1900 are also analyzed, alongside autobiographical sarcasm in survival narratives. The childhood memories of Else Feldmann and the experiences of Ernst Rosmer in Theresienstadt are highlighted, as well as autobiographical elements in Elsa Bernstein's dramas. The collection further examines the themes of love and death in Käthe Kollwitz's writings, the interplay of reality and fiction in Else Lasker-Schüler's letters, and the autobiographical approaches in Hannah Arendt's biography of Rahel Varnhagen. The concept of double foreignness in Margarete Susman’s work, along with transgressive writing as a survival strategy in Mechtilde Lichnowsky's texts, is also discussed. The role of dogs in female autobiographies is compared, and the performance of autobiography in Emmy Hennings' work is analyzed. Finally, the collection addresses coming-out narrative
