Ada Schnee | |
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 Ada Schnee, c. 1918 | |
| Born | Ada Adeline Woodhill 17 October 1872. |
| Died | 11 May 1969 (aged 96) Berlin |
| Other names | Bibi Mkubwa (in Swahili) |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Actress and author |
| Known for | Memoir of her life in German East Africa |
| Notable work | Bibi Mkuba: My experiences in German East Africa during World War I |
| Spouse | Heinrich Schnee |
Ada Schnee, née Ada Adeline Woodhill, was a naturalized German author, born to British parents in 1872 New Zealand. Her autobiographical writings about life in German East Africa as the wife of the last German governor, Heinrich Schnee, were published in 1918. In this memoir, she wrote about her experience as an eye witness of the East African campaign of World War I and her captivity as a female alien enemy.
Following the publication of her memoir, Ada Schnee gained public attention and gave talks in post-war Germany propagating German colonial past. An English translation of her memoir was published in 1995, and both the original as well as the translated version have been discussed by scholarly studies of literary and military history. They have mainly focussed on her experiences as a woman writer and the broader implications of her narrative for the German colonial context.