WAAL Nic 1.1.1905 - 28.5.1960
norveška otroška psihologinja

She is said to be the mother of Norwegian child and adolescent psychiatry. Her sensitivity caused her suffering but it was an asset in her work with patients. She qualified in medicine in Oslo in 1930 and received her psychoanalytic training in Berlin and Oslo. She was certified as a psychoanalyst in 1933, as a psychiatrist in 1951 and as a child psychiatrist in 1953. From 1953 till her untimely death in 1960 she was head of Nic Waal's Institute, a treatment centre and training institute for all child psychiatric professions. Through the training she provided and her published work she has had considerable influence on the development of child psychiatry in Norway and in Scandinavia. She also developed her own method of psychodiagnosis through the study of patients' pattern of muscular tensions. Her institute is still active and expanding, having included family therapy and neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry.

Wägner Elin 16.5.1882 - 7.1.1949
švedska pisateljica.

Swedish novelist was a leading feminist of her day. In early works such as Pennskaftet (The penholder) (1910), she deals with the social, economic, and political questions confronting self-supporting urban women. She also founded and edited a feminist weekly and later, in two semiautobiographical novels, recorded the history of the Swedish women's movement in terms of her own experience. Her later works, including her best-known novel, Åsa-Hanna (1918), and the family saga Silverforsen (The silver rapids) (1924), concentrate more heavily on religious and moral questions. In Alarm Clock (1941), she argued for radical change from a doomed patriarchy.

 
      S - 1195

Waitz Grete 1.10.1953 -
norveška atletinja - maratonka, srebrna medalja v maratonu na OI 1984.

Waitz, a nine-time winner of the New York City Marathon, became the first women to break the 2 hour, 30 minute marathon mark when she won the event in 1979. She was a member of the Norwegian Olympic team in 1972 and 1976, running the longest distance available for women — the 1500m. Waitz is a five-time winner of the World Cross Country Championships. In 1978, she won the World Cross Country Championship and the New York City Marathon in a world-record time of 2:32:30. In 1979 and 1980, she ran to first-place finishes at the World Cross Country Championships. Waitz broke her world record in 1980 by winning the New York City Marathon in 2:25:42. Waitz won a silver medal in the inaugural women's Olympic marathon race in 1984. Later that year, she won her seventh New York City Marathon and became a two-time winner of the Pavo Nurmi Award (1978 and 1979) as the top female distance runner. Waitz established the Grete Waitz Run for women in Oslo in 1994.

  
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          PL - 2884

Wawrzynska Ludwika 1908 - 18.2.1955
Poljska učiteljica, ki je februarja 1955 rešila tri otroke iz goreče hiše. Pri tem se je sama hudo opekla in 10 dni potem umrla.

She was a Polish teacher. On February 8, 1955 she rescued four children from a burning house where they had been locked by their parents as they were leaving for work. She died ten days later from severe burns.

    
                 PL - 979-980

Weber Helene 17.3.1881 - 25.7.1962
nemška vzgojiteljica, feministka in političarka.

German educator, politician and feminist. She worked as a teacher in elementary schools. In 1905, she began her studies of History, Philosophy, Romance Languages, and Social Legislation, and, with that, received the qualification to teach at secondary schools. Starting 1916, she became the director of the "Sozialen Frauenschule des katholischen Deutschen Frauenbundes" in Cologne and chair of the "Verein der katholischen Sozialbeamtinnen." In the following years, she was engaged in many political activities that were taken from her in 1933 due to "political untrustworthiness." In 1946, she started her political activities again and became a member of the "Landtag" in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Four years later, she was the CDU-candidate for the election into the Bundestag.

  
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Weel Liva 31.12.1897 - 22.5.1952
danska igralka

Danish singer and actress. She was born and died in Copenhagen. On stage, she became a leading lady of danish scene. In motion pictures, she appeared in Livets Karneval (1923), Odds 777 (1932), Cocktail (1937), Under Byens Tage (1938), Ta'Briller Pa (1942) and Smedestraede 4 (1950). She was married with actor Arne Weel.

  
             DK - 1218

Weigel Helene 12.5.1900 - 6.5.1971
nemška igralka.

The German actress Helene Weigel married Bertolt Brecht in 1928 and was his constant collaborator thereafter. Her portrayals of the mother figures in his The Mother (1932) and Mother Courage and Her Children (1949) were widely acclaimed. Following Brecht's death (1956) she directed the Berliner Ensemble.

  
              GDR - 2497

Weil Simone 3.2.1909 - 24.8.1943
je bila francoska politična aktivistka in filozofinja.

Simone Weil was a French social philosopher, religious thinker, mystic, and political activist. She taught philosophy at various lycees; in 1936 she was involved in the French worker strikes. She identified with all human suffering and often undertook physically demanding work, despite her poor health: she spent a year working in an auto factory and living with working women to learn the effect of industry on workers. Politically, she was a radical leftist. She worked for the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War by joining and training with an anarchist unit; being a pacifist, however, she refused to use her rifle. Jewish by birth, Weil wanted to know the suffering of those who were victims of Nazism. Refusing to eat more than the ration allowed in German-occupied France, she died of hunger. Weil's writings show both wide learning and passionate concern for human dignity. They had a great effect on French - and English -speaking intellectuals after her death.

 
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WEISER Grethe 7.2.1903 - 2.10.1970

German actress and entertainer spent her childhood in Dresden. She established herself in the cabaret scene in Berlin, especially after her husband became a leaseholder of a Night Club. Her film debut came soon after in 1927. She had a lifelong relationship with Hermann Schwerin, an UFA film producer began in 1934, but the couple were not married until 1958. Her previous marriage had been dissolved in 1934. She, unusually for an actress, avoided becoming a member of the Nazi Party. She managed to finance and arrange for her previous husband and her son to survive the Nazi years in Switzerland, as well as at the same time continue her career in Germany. She died after a road traffic accident.

    
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Weiss Louise 25.1.1893 - 26.5.1983
je bila francoska borka za ženske pravice, pisateljica in novinarka.

French suffragette, author and political activist was a teacher at a secondary school for arts and awarded a diploma from Oxford University. From 1914 to 1918, she worked as a war nurse and founded a hospital in the Côtes-du-Nord. From 1918 to 1934, she was the publisher of the magazine, L'Europe nouvelle. From 1935 to the beginning of World War II, she committed herself to women's suffrage. In 1936, she stood for French parliamentary elections, running in the Fifth arrondissement of Paris. During the War, she was active in the French Resistance. She was a member of the Patriam Recuperare network, and she was chief editor of the secret magazine, Nouvelle République from 1942 until 1944. In 1945, she founded the Institute for Polemology (research on war and conflict) together with Gaston Bouthoul in London. She travelled around the Middle East, Japan, China, Vietnam, Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, Alaska, India, etc., made documentary films and wrote accounts of her travels. In 1975, she unsuccessfully tried twice to be admitted to the Académie Française. In 1979, she became a Member of the European Parliament for the Gaullist Party (now Union for a Popular Movement).

  
        F - 2956

Wely Babs van 22.10.1924 - 14.3.2007
nizozemska ilustratorka.

Dutch llustrator.

                  
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Wendelin Martta  23.11.1893 - 1.3.1986
je finska slikarka in ilustratorka.

Wendelins Christmas art is redolent of leisure, domestic contentment and the world of children, with illustrations depicting the traditional Finnish Christmas, including felling a Christmas tree, baking ginger cookies, rice pudding, candles, Santa Claus giving presents, and families on their way to church early on Christmas morning.

  
FI - 1218-1222

WERBROUCK Ulla 24.1.1972 -
belgijska judoistka, ki je na OI 1996 osvojila zlato medaljo v poltežki kategoriji do 72 kg.

Belgian judoist, at the 1996 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the women's half-heavy weight category (72kg).

 
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Werminska Wanda 18.11.1900 - 30.8.1988
poljska pevka.

Wanda Werminska was a solist for Warsaw Opera for many years. She started her career as a mezzo, later turning to the dramatic soprano roles. She was known for her Wagner, Verdi and Puccini. She sang in Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna and in Italy and Central America.

   
       PL - 3256

Westin Marie-Helene 14.5.1966 -
Švedska smučarska tekačica, leta 1987 je na svetovnem prvenstvu dobila zlato medaljo v teku na 20 km.

Swedish skier, cross - country, on nordic skiing World championship 1987 she won gold medal on 20 km.

Wiberg Pernilla 15.10.1970 -
švedska smučarka - dosežki:  24 zmag v svetovnem pokalu v petih disciplinah, 2 olimpijski zlati medalji: 1992 Albertville - veleslalom, 1994 Lillehamer - kombinacija, 4 krat svetovna prvakinja, 1 krat zmagovalka v skupni razvrstitvi v svetovnem pokalu.

Svedish skier: 24 World Cup Victories in 5 disciplines, 2 Olympic gold medals (1992 Albertville - giant slalom, 1994 Lillehamer - combines), 4 World Champion titles and a World Cup Overall Victory.

  
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Wigman Mary 13.11.1886 - 18.9.1973

Mary Wigman (Marie Wiegmann) was, during the 1920s and '30s, the most highly regarded modern dancer and choreographer in Central Europe and one of the principal reasons for the ascendancy there of modern dance over classical ballet until the end of World War II. Wigman studied first with Emile Jaques Dalcroze and then with Rudolf von Laban, whose assistant she later became. She gave her first solo recital in 1919 and in the following year opened a highly successful school in Dresden. The style of dancing Wigman evolved was, in her words, mostly "dark, heavy, and earthbound." It was an attempt, by means of personally conceived movement, to increase the emotional expressiveness, and therefore the relevance, of dance. Wigman retired as a performer in 1942. Her ideas and teaching methods were brought to the United States by her pupil Hanya Holm, who opened a Mary Wigman School of Dance in New York in 1931. After World War II, Wigman taught at the Music Academy in Leipzig and then opened a school in West Berlin, where she regained some of her old influence, although by then classical ballet had all but eclipsed modern dance in Germany.

  
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Wihuri Jenny

A shipowner and an industrialist Antti Wihuri (1883–1962) and his wife Jenny established in 1942 Finnish cultural foundation. The purpose of the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation is to promote and support cultural and economic development in Finland. The Foundation's grants and awards are distributed annually on Mr. Antti Wihuri's birthday, October 9th.

 
          FI - 1666

Wiik Maria 3.8.1853 - 19.6.1928
je finska slikarka.

Maria Wiik  was Helene Schjerfbeck's close friend during her student years and early career. Together they painted in France, as well as for long stretches of time in St. Ives, Cornwall. Maria Wiik's art comprises small genre paintings, figure compositions and portraits, still-lifes and numerous pictures of children. She attracted attention from the start as a portraitist.
On stamp FI-772: Wiik Hilda (sister of the artist).

  
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Winsnes Hanna 23.8.1789 - 19.10.1872
je norveška pisateljica.

Norwegian author, not so well known abroad. She was the mother of seven, married to a vicar. According to the behaviour suitable for women of her time she chose the more traditional way of writing. She became known for her cookery books and a children book, both still familiar to most Norwegians. She also wrote entertainment novels, but secretly, under the pseudonym Hugo Schwarz.
On background on the stamp N-1032 is extract from her food recipes and poetic riddles.

 
            N - 1032

Wojnarowska Wanda Cezaryna 1.5.1861 - 15.4.1911

She was a polish socialist activist and journalist and co-founder of The Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania.

   
       PL - 2825

WOOLF Adeline Virginia 25.1.1882 - 28.3.1941
angleška pisateljica

Virginia Woolf is british novelist and essayist and is remembered as both a feminist and a modernist whose novels often ignored traditional plots to follow the inner lives and musings of her characters. As a young woman Woolf moved with her siblings to Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. The house became a gathering place for writers, artists and intellectuals and this "Bloomsbury Group" is remembered as an incubator of modern artistic thought. She married writer and fellow Bloomsbury member Leonard Woolf in 1912, and they founded the small Hogarth Press. Her first major published work was The Voyage Out (1915); other books included Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928). Her 1929 book A Room of One's Own collected her lectures and meditations on the place of women in literature. Her diaries also have been widely reprinted. Woolf suffered from depression and fits of mental illness for much of her life, and finally committed suicide by drowning herself in the river Ouse near Sussex, England. Woolf was immortalized in the title of Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

   
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WYNGAERT Chris van den  2.3.1952 -
belgijska pravnica (mednarodno kazensko pravo).

She is a belgian criminal law expert. She studied law in Vrije Universiteit Brussel. From 2003 she is a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

   
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