She was a passionate woman – beautiful and vivacious, strong-willed and courageous – a lioness in life and not only in her sign of the zodiac (Leo)! She had an absolutely brilliant idea which she spread worldwide – publishing sewing patterns for women everywhere to make their own fashionable clothes! Especially in post-war Germany, her achievements gave millions of women new independence and self-confidence, a unique gift that still lives on, despite her death last year. This site will tell you all about Aenne Burda’s fascinating life, her great public success, her private passions, her family source of strength and her secret escapes!

She is an „icon of the 20th century", „Empress of Fashion“ and „Germany’s economic miracle woman“: Aenne Burda. With her glamorous rise from the daughter of a railway worker to the publisher of the biggest fashion magazine in the world, she proved that miracles can indeed happen. The founder of “Burda Moden” would be turning 100 on July 28 2009.

The publisher is able to relax and recharge in the South - in Ischia and for 30 years in the Sicilian town of Taormina. Here she manages to carry into effect in her mid-50s what millions of women can only dream of: a house by the sea and an attractive lover.
For her family, Aenne Burda was a matriarch, for millions of women all over the world she was a role model who fought for her ideals with beauty, charm, intelligence, confidence, ambition and will. We can still learn from Aenne Burda today.

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