# Annette Eick

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**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](/source/Berlin).

During the 1920s, a liberal time period in the [Weimar republic](/source/Weimar_Republic), Eick wrote poems and short stories for lesbian magazines, including *[Garçonne](/source/Gar%C3%A7onne_(magazine))*.[1] 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](/source/Kristallnacht).[2] Her parents were murdered in the [Auschwitz](/source/Auschwitz_concentration_camp) concentration camp.[2]

In London, Eick worked as a nanny and housekeeper and met her partner [Getrud Klingel](/source/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](/source/Jules_Hussey) in 2005.[3]

Eick became known to a wider audience after being featured, alongside five gay men, in the documentary ‘[Paragraph 175](/source/Paragraph_175_(film))’ from 2000, which told of their prosecutions under the [paragraph 175](/source/Paragraph_175) which criminalised homosexuality.[4] Most of Eick's work, however, remains unpublished.[5]

She died 25 February 2010, in [Devon](/source/Devon).

## References

1. ["L-MAG - Das Magazin für Lesben - Nachruf auf Annette Eick"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170511212334/http://www.l-mag.de/news/nachruf-auf-annette-eick.html). 2017-05-11. Archived from [the original](http://www.l-mag.de/news/nachruf-auf-annette-eick.html) on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2019-02-20.

1. ["Claudia Schoppmann, 2005: Annette Eick (born 1909)"](https://www.lesbengeschichte.de/Pdfs/pdfs_bio_skizzen_englisch/eick_schoppmann_engl.pdf)

1. ["ANNETTE EICK"](https://funeral-notices.co.uk/national/death-notices/notice/Annette+Eick/2550667). *funeral-notices.co.uk*. Retrieved 2019-02-20.

1. ["Paragraph 175"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236576/), retrieved 2019-02-20

1. Hussey, Jules (2010-04-26). ["Annette Eick obituary"](https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/apr/26/annette-eick-obituary). *The Guardian*. [ISSN 0261-3077](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077). Retrieved 2019-02-20.

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