I’ve been thinking about my mother a lot lately. After living with us for 21 years, Mom passed away last March, three months shy of her 100th birthday. And while I knew the shock would be int… ...

‘Hausfrau,’ the debut novel by Jill Alexander Essbaum, is the story of Anna, a Zurich housewife who whiles away her days with guilt-free affairs. Rapt readers already are venting about an ...

To Germans, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a jealously guarded possession, and judgments of any new Bach performer are sharply critical, especially if the performer is a foreigner. But last ...

Hausfrau —not incidentally, itself a display of exquisite prose—might be the more honest novel on the persistent literary problem of the housewife.

Portland playwright and actress Bess Welden filmed episodes of 'The Passion of the Hausfrau' with her son, throughout their home.

Ah, the German hausfrau. There she stands in front of her beloved stove. Her mind untarnished by thoughts that do not concern the care of her family or the future of her soul, she is cheerfully ...

The reluctant hausfrau: being a German mother David Cameron says Britons should be more like the Germans. Bee Rowlatt set out to discover just what that entails.

The Hausfrau is back. Tonight and Friday in Lewiston and beginning Wednesday in Brunswick, actress Bess Welden restages “The Passion of the Hausfrau: An Illuminated Solo Comedy.” The one-woman ...