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Love, Parachutes, and Käthchen Paulus

7/12/2014

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Käthchen Paulus was born in the late 1860s, in a German village where she supported her mother by working as a seamstress. She died in the mid-30s in relative obscurity. But in between, she ran away with an adventurer, made and lost a fortune, became an international celebrity, an entrepreneur, a WWI military advisor, and an inventor of lasting influence.

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Further Reading

R. Bonnet, Käthchen Paulus. Die kühne Ballonfliegerin und Fallschirmspringerin. Bad Homburg: Verein für Geschichte und Landeskunde Homburg, 1965.

Walter Gerteis, Das Unbekannte Frankfurt, Frankfurt: Societäts-Verlag, 1963

K. Paulus, “Wie ich Luftschifferin wurde,” in: Die Erschliessung des Luftmeers. Luftschifffahrt und Flugtechnik in ihrem heutigen Stande, ed. A. Kirchoff, 210-13. Leipzig 1910
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Sean Rainbird, “A Dangerous Passion: Max Beckmann’s ‘Aerial Acrobats.’” The Burlington Magazine 145 (2003): 96-101.

Elke Worg, “Miss Polly und der freie Fall: Die Luftakrobatin Käthe Paulus.”

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