Maximiliane Ackers
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Maximiliane Ackers (September 24, 1896, in Saarbrücken – April 17, 1982, in Glonn) was a lesbian German author and actress famous for writing lesbian fiction.
Ackers was an actress in theater and cabarets in Göttingen, Riga, and Berlin.[1] In the early 1920s, Ackers began working in films, writing and starring in the silent film Burning Country (Brennendes Land).[2][3] 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.[2][4]
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.[1]
