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Luisa Francia (born 2 August 1949 in Markt Grafing[1]) is a German author and filmmaker. She sees herself as a modern witch.

Life and work[edit]

Luisa Francia grew up in a family of women in Bavaria. She learnt mountaineering from her mother. She initially studied German language and literature, was a trainee at the Manchester Evening Star, sang in clubs and in the musical Hair and worked as a dance teacher for African dance.

From the 1980s, she travelled to Africa, India and Nepal several times in search of magical traditions, folk healing and shamanism and wrote reports and books about her experiences (including Waiting for Blue Wonders, The African Dream[2]). In 1988, she received a scholarship from the German Literature Fund.[3]

In her numerous publications, often in guidebook style, she deals with the topics of witches, tarot, horoscope interpretation, goddesses, female shamanism and gives instructions on how to create magical and meditative rituals for life stages and for women's everyday lives. She has also organised workshops and performances on these topics. Ariane Barth wrote about Francia's 1986 book Moon – Dance – MagicinSpiegel: "Anyone who reads her book about her creation of thirteen moon festivals will easily be seduced by the archaic power of this woman, seduced into a strange world in which modern intellectuality and magical ideas get on well together."[4] In the early 1990s, she undertook a Kailash circumnavigation alone. Her book about female mountaineers was published in 1999 under the title Der untere Himmel. Women in Icy Heights.[5]

Francia co-authored the screenplays for Margarethe von Trotta's feature film The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978), which won the German Film Award, and Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks (1979). She made her own films such as the documentary television feature film Hexen (1980) and wrote the theatre monologue Fischmaul (1986).[6]

Francia is the best-known representative of the witchcraft scene, which emerged in Germany in the 1980s at the intersection of neo-paganism and feminism.[7] Like the American Starhawk, she represents a socialist and feminist current.[8]

Personal life[edit]

Luisa Francia is the mother of a daughter; she lives near Munich and in Portugal.[9]

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Francia, Luisa, in: Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2012/2013, Walter De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-027424-0, S. 273
  • ^ Der Afrikanische Traum, Rezeption in: Yoshinori Shichiji (Hrsg.): Begegnung mit dem Fremden: Theorie der Alterität, Iudicium Verlag 1991, ISBN 978-3-89129-902-9, S. 112f.
  • ^ Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2012/2013
  • ^ Ariane Barth: Hautnah wie ein Liebhaber, DER SPIEGEL 17/1987. Online
  • ^ Luisa Francia im Gespräch mit Isabella Schmid, ARD alpha Bildungskanal, 2002, 24. Oktober 2011
  • ^ Helmut Schndel: Bravbrav DIE ZEIT, 25. April 1986 Nr. 18, online
  • ^ Felix Wiedemann: Rassenmutter und Rebellin. Hexenbilder in Romantik, völkischer Bewegung, Neuheidentum und Feminismus, Königshausen u. Neumann 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3679-8, S. 317
  • ^ Anna Fedele et al. (Hrsg.): Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality, Routledge 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-65947-5, S. 53
  • ^ "Luisa Francia – Anarchismus ist lebendige Freiheitsbewegung" (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-05.
  • ^ Rezensionsnotizen bei Perlentaucher.de
  • ^ Rezension, "Schreiben über Afrika", Goethe-Institut

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luisa_Francia&oldid=1213094698"

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