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 ...

‘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 ...

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

Portland playwright and actress Bess Welden filmed episodes of 'The Passion of the Hausfrau' with her son, throughout their home. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers. Sign In: Login.

The New Yorker, May 2, 1925 P. 6. Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink one of the great contraltos. Apart from career, typically haus-frau. Climbed from piano player in restaurant at 50 cents night, to ...

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 ...

I may have been a failure on the hausfrau front, but “becoming” German taught me a lot, and made me reflect on how things could be improved back home. Germany is a fascinating place that is ...