The captivating biography of a free-spirited artist. Her admirers called her the pagan Madonna, courtesan, femme fatale, scandal countess. Franziska zu Reventlow is one of the most colorful figures of the Fin de Siècle. She turned her back on her family early on and rebelled against the conventions of the Empire. She was a writer and a virtuoso of life, an erotic genius and a single mother, a noblewoman and a bohemian. Gunna Wendt recounts this extraordinary woman's life anew, wonderfully vivid, sensual, and theatrical.