Die Nibelungen

Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650)

Claude Deruet, Alberte-Barbe d'Ernécourt, Mme de Saint-Baslemont (1607-1660)

Amazons in the Schedelsche Weltchronik or Nuremberg Chronicles, 1493.

Judith with the head of Holofernes
from a translation of the Old Testament into German (1441-49)

Gustav Klimt, Judith (1909)

Lukas Cranach the Elder, Judith (1530)

Gustav Klimt, Judith (1901)

Frontispiece for Schiller’s Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1802)

Clara Ziegler as Kleist’s Amazon Penthesilea(1808) in 1880

Richard Wagner, Die Walküre (1870)

August Kiss, Fighting Amazon, Altes Museum Berlin (1840)

Gustav Blaeser, The warrior goes into combat protected by Athene (1854)

Friedrich Drake, Winged Victory, Siegessäule, Berlin (c.1864)

Karl Kundmann, Pallas Athene, goddess of war, in front of the Parliament in Vienna
(1902)

Christian Köhler, Germania awakes (1849)

Lorenz Clasen, Germania on Guard at the Rhine (1860)

Hermann Wislicenus, Germania on Guard at the Rhine 1870

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Germania 1914

Natali Seelig as Joan in Schiller’s Jungfrau von Orleans in the Hamburg Thalia-
Theater in 2005

Kristanna Løken as Brunhild in the dramatisation of the Nibelungenlied by the TV
channel Sat 1 in 2004

Gretchen in Prison, 19 th century illustration to Goethe’s Faust

Gabriel von Max, Infanticide 1877

Johann Heinrich Fussli, Kriemhild shows Hagen Gunther’s head (1805)

Katharina Lanz, the Heroic Maiden of Spinges, saving her village in 1797

Birgit Nilsson as Brünnhilde

Hanna Ralph as Brunhild in Fritz Langs Die Nibelungen (1923)

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Achilles and the Dead Amazon Penthesilea (1828)

Amalia Materna, the first Bruennhilde (1876)

Amazon, Antikensammlung Berlin

Anselm Feuerbach, Die Amazonenschlacht (1873), detail

Hans Baldung Grien, Judith (1525)

Hans Sebald Beham after Barthel Beham, Judith with the head of Holofernes (1547)

Horace Vernet, Judith (1831)

Ferdinand Bender, Christine Enghans (Hebbel) as Judith in her husband’s play of that name (1850)

Eleonore Prochaska (1785-1813)

Eleonore Prochaska’s dying words: ‘Lieutenant, I am a maiden’ (1813)

Franz von Stuck, Wounded Amazon 1905

Ferdinand Bender, Christine Enghans (Hebbel) as Judith in her husband’s play of that name (1850)

A scene from Marie Haushofer’s pageant for the first Bavarian Women’s Congress,
Munich 1899