Determination - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the Power of Words

A woman who refused to be muzzled

The year is 1847. Countess Marie Dubsky is supposed to be wearing tightly laced dresses and rehearsing dances for her debut in Viennese society, but she prefers to gallop across the family estates on her white steed. She keeps books and writing utensils hidden in a cabin in the woods. For as long as she can remember, Marie has wanted to be an author. Yet her attempts at writing are met with rejection by her family, who are also concerned because Marie wields a sharp pen and holds disturbingly progressive views. Initially, her sole support is her cousin Moriz, whom she herself has chosen as her future husband. But then her courageous urge to speak out in public also threatens her happiness in love . . .

A portrait of one of the most influential 19th century writers in the German-language

The path of a courageous woman who held unwaveringly to her belief in the power of ideas and words

The story of a marriage on equal footing, in an age when it was anything but the norm