biographical sketch about her for International Women's Day in 1951. Along with Yevgenia Klemm, Antonina Nikiforova, Mela Ernst, Rosa Jochmann, Katja Niederkirchner, Rosa Thälmann, Olga Körner, Martha Desrumaux, Minna Villain and Maria Grollmuß, Olga Benário Prestes was one of the prominent prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp who were publicly commemorated during the liberation celebrations at the Ravensbrück National Memorial of the GDR. Olga Benário was the subject of an opera Entre la Piel y el Alma by G. P. Cribari, which premiered in Glasgow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on May 22, 1992. In the GDR Ruth Werner published a successful biographical novel for young readers about Olga Benario in 1961. In 2004, a popular Brazilian film based on Benário's life, Olga, directed by telenovela director Jayme Monjardim, which offered a thoroughly depoliticized account of Olga's life, centered on her love affair with Prestes, was released, to the disappointment of German critics, who called it "kitsch advertising". Also in 2004 she was the subject of a German documentary (with reconstructed scenes) directed by the former assistant to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Galip Iyitanir, Olga Benário - Ein Leben für die Revolution. In 2006, the opera Olga, by Jorge Antunes, premiered on October 14 at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2009 Olga Benario was one of three female protagonists in Swiss writer Robert Cohen's vast novel about the anti-fascist exile Exil der frechen Frauen. In January 2013, the English translation of the play Olga's Room by German playwright Dea Loher, was presented by the Speaking in Tongues Theatre Company at the Arcola Theatre in London. In 2013 Robert Cohen edited the exchange of letters from prisons and concentration camps between Olga Benario and Luiz Carlos Prestes. In 2016 Robert Cohen published an edited version of the only recently accessible large dossier of documents of the Gestapo on Olga Benario. In 2019 Cohen published an extensive research paper on Benario's life: "The Perpetrators and their Victim. A Report on the Gestapo Dossier on Olga Benario." See also Anita Leocádia Prestes, her daughter References External links A short biography Another short biography 1908 births 1942 deaths German communists Jewish socialists Anti-revisionists Jewish anti-fascists People extradited from Brazil People extradited to Germany Ravensbrück concentration camp Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps Aktion T4 victims People from Bavaria executed in Nazi concentration camps Politicians from Munich