{{short description|Jewish lesbian writer (b. 1909, d. 2010)}} '''Annette Eick''' (13 September 1909 – 25 February 2010) was a Jewish Lesbian author and poet.
==Biography== Annette Eick was born 13 September 1909, in Berlin.
During the 1920s, a liberal time period in the Weimar republic, Eick wrote poems and short stories for lesbian magazines, including ''Garçonne''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.l-mag.de/news/nachruf-auf-annette-eick.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511212334/http://www.l-mag.de/news/nachruf-auf-annette-eick.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-05-11|title=L-MAG - Das Magazin für Lesben - Nachruf auf Annette Eick|date=2017-05-11|access-date=2019-02-20}}</ref> After the Nazis came to power in 1933, she had to give up on journalism and started working as a nanny. In 1938, she was granted a visum to live in the UK and fled to London after surviving an attack by Nazis on the farm she was staying at during the Reichskristallnacht.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lesbengeschichte.de/Pdfs/pdfs_bio_skizzen_englisch/eick_schoppmann_engl.pdf|title=Claudia Schoppmann, 2005: Annette Eick (born 1909)|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}</ref> Her parents were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.<ref name=":0" />
In London, Eick worked as a nanny and housekeeper and met her partner Getrud Klingel. They moved to Devon, where they opened a nursery and Eick started writing again. Her collection of poems, ''Immortal Muse'', was published in 1984 and turned into a short film called ''The Immortal Muse'' by Jules Hussey in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://funeral-notices.co.uk/national/death-notices/notice/Annette+Eick/2550667|title=ANNETTE EICK|website=funeral-notices.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-02-20}}</ref>
Eick became known to a wider audience after being featured, alongside five gay men, in the documentary ‘Paragraph 175’ from 2000, which told of their prosecutions under the paragraph 175 which criminalised homosexuality.<ref>{{Citation|title=Paragraph 175|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236576/|access-date=2019-02-20}}</ref> Most of Eick's work, however, remains unpublished.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/apr/26/annette-eick-obituary|title=Annette Eick obituary|last=Hussey|first=Jules|date=2010-04-26|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-02-20|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
She died 25 February 2010, in Devon.
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