Ruth Margarete Roellig

Ruth Margarete Roellig (14 December 1878 – 31 July 1969)[1] was a German writer, she is known for documenting Berlin's lesbian club scene of the late 1920s during the Weimar Republic.

[2] Additionally she published support of Nazism starting in the 1930s, and she stopped writing after the end of World War II.

[3] In 1927, her home in Berlin's Schöneberg neighborhood included living with a much younger woman and a pet monkey, they were interested in the occult and hosted many parties with actresses and writers.

[2] The following year, Roellig published a city guide, Berlins lesbische Frauen (1928), for lesbians (with a prologue by Magnus Hirschfeld).

Roellig who supported Nazism in 1930s wrote in 1937 her last book Soldaten, Tod und Tänzerin with antisemitic content.