Ba, Mariama β β Senegalese writer Mariama Ba was born in Dakar, the daughter of a politician. She was raised by her grandparents and attended school in Rufisque. She trained and worked as a school teacher but was forced to resign due to ill-health and became a school inspector. Ba was famous for her first novel, written when aged fifty entitled Une si longue lettre So Long a Letter , for which she received the French Noma award Her second novel Un Chant ecarlate Scarlet Song was published shortly after her death.
Baader, Ottilie β β German socialist and feminist Baader was born into a poor background and was trained to work as a seamstress.
Baarova went to join a German film company in Berlin, Prussia, where her appearance in the film Barcarole opposite Gustav Froehlich, made her a household name in Germany, where the Nazi leader Goebbels became infatuated with her beauty, which caused Hitler and the Reich some anxiety. Her role in Verrater Traitors , which dealt with the depiction of foreign spies, was highly praised by the Nazis.
Later banned from Berlin, Baarova later travelled to Rome and Spain, before returning to Prague at the end of the war. Imprisoned by the Americans because of her Nazi connections, Baarova was eventually released because of lack of evidence. The taint of her tenuous connection with the Nazis was never forgotten and her sister killed herself because of it. Lida Baarova died Oct 27, at Salzburg, Austria. Babak, Renata β β Ukrainian-American mezzo-soprano Renata Babak received her early operatic training under Sophia Preobrahzenskaya at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad, and appeared at the Leningrad Opera β For twenty years she worked as a vocal trainer at the Washington Conservatory of Music.
She was widowed young, and left with a son, but inherited considerable property. Her second marriage did not last. She herself became involved in lengthy lawsuits regarding her son, and property left her by her husband, which claims were instigated by his angry relatives.
