Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name at the University Library of Basel from September 18 to November 28, 2015. Further exhibition locations: German Exile Archive at the National Library in Frankfurt, Literature House Berlin, and Bodmanhaus Gottlieben. Thea Sternheim became known through the five-volume edition of her diaries, which are among the great testimonies of the past century. They depict a woman with a tumultuous life, whose personality is as captivating as her relationships with the great figures of literature and art in Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. She keenly comments on developments in politics, literature, and art, and with great seriousness and unflinching honesty, she records familial catastrophes and her own struggle for independence. Always, it holds true: here speaks a woman who refuses to be deceived. Richly illustrated.