The high point in Annette Kolb's work are her three novels "Das Exemplar" (1913), "Daphne Herbst" (1928) and "Die Schaukel" (1934) - women's novels and bold portraits of herself, her family, but also of Europe before the First World War. We accompany Mariclée on her exploratory tour of London ("The Specimen"), experience the Herbst family's return to Munich society ("Daphne Herbst") and discover the author's autobiographically grounded childhood story in Munich ("The Swing"). Images of cities and landscapes as well as the passionate character portrayal in these novels are as vivid today as they were then. Annette Kolb wrote highly poetic prose with an extraordinary sense for the nerve of her time. "... there is a modern novel in German language created, the like of which has never existed before..." Hugo von Hofmannsthal on "Daph.