Julie Söllner

The Viennese Julie Söllner (née Karplus) came from a Jewish family of the haute bourgeoisie, but converted to Catholicism through her marriage to the solicitor Anton Maria Söllner. On 18 March 1915 she made a note in diary of her resolution to “create her own memoirs of our great, our strange, our terrible times”. In retrospective passages Julie Söllner subsequently describes the situation in Vienna after the euphoric mood of the early war months had died down, a phase she reacts to with simultaneous suspense and concern. Julie Söllner was forced to emigrate and died in 1955 in Gothenburg.