The child rights activist from Pakistan is the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history. Among other things, she fights for all girls in the world to have the right and opportunity to go to school. The color green is the color of hope and peace, the color of Islam and the Pakistani flag.

As a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro, she represented feminist issues such as reproductive rights, advocated for the rights of mostly black favela residents, and campaigned against police violence. She and her driver were shot dead in their car on March 14, 2018. Purple is considered the color of gender equality and color of the women's movement.

RBG served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the USA from 1993 until her death in 2020. She stood up for women's rights and equality. The background color is blue because blue stands for justice in the US flag.

Juliane Noack's artistic work encompassed contemporary jewelry art, sculpture and intervention. She was a graduate of the jewelry class at Burg Giebichenstein art college Halle. She initiated art projects in public spaces and co-founded the art and project space Kiosk am Reileck. After her tragic death in the Germanwings crash in March 2015, relatives and friends founded the Juliane Noack association to support artists in the early years of their careers.

Boshra Mousa came to Halle as a refugee from Iraq in 1999. She has been working for years for Das arabische Haus/ El-Bait El-Arabi e.V. as an integration helper and is an important mediator between private individuals and institutions.

With her father's legacy, Dr Marianne Witte made a decisive contribution to the restoration of the historic cemetery Stadtgottesacker - one of Halle's most important architectural monuments. Witte spent her youth in Halle and became the first woman to be awarded honorary citizenship in 2003.

Sissy Metzschke has been an important voice at MDR radio since 2005. Among other things, she presented SPUTNIK Popkult and travels a lot as a reporter and presenter. Nevertheless, she feels very connected to her hometown "Hallefornia".

Ursula Warmus grew up in a railway family and was a passionate station manager. It was thanks to her work in Halle that the cities main station was transformed into the shopping station we know today.

Her career as an actress at the theatres in Halle lasted an incredible 60 years, during which Ellen Weber played countless roles. As a citizen and independent city councillor, she was active in the reconstruction of the city and the theatres after the Second World War.

The multiple award-winning soprano contributed significantly to the Händel renaissance of the 1950s. She remained loyal to the stages of Halle until her retirement in 1980. During this time she interpreted fourteen Händel operas, making her one of the world's leading sopranos to this day.

Born in Halle, Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob was a writer and a scientist in ethnology and slavic studies. She published scientific and fictional books in Germany and the USA. Her translation of Serbian folk songs, published in 1835 are still valued in slavic studies today. Some of her works were published under the pseudonyms Talvj and Ernst Berthold.

She was one of the first female art historians in Germany to receive a doctorate and formal training ro be a teacher. She was particularly committed to women's education and social women's work. Among other things, Agnes Gosche was the co-founder of the General German Teachers' Association and founded the Halle Women's Education Association, which she led for 28 years.

In 2017 and 2019, Anja Adler was voted Sportswoman of the Year in her hometown of Halle (Saale). The para-canoeist has celebrated successes at European and World Championships and has already been German champion twice. She is currently training for the Paralympics in Tokyo.

She did not learn to read until she was 35. Aftter that, she studied the Bible and the upcoming Reformation intensively. By 1523 she professed the so-called new doctrine. She was in close contact with the reformers. Evidence of her standing in these circles includes a gift from Luther - a personally dedicated first edition of his translation of the Bible. Von Selmnitz left her book collection, which is the Marienbibliothek in Halle today.

Catharina M. Linck alias Anastasius L. Rosenstengel led a turbulent life. Growing up poor Halle, Linck / Rosenstengel managed to work as a soldier and to marry a woman by wearing men's clothes. For this, Linck was eventually publicly executed as the last woman in Europe who had to die because of her relationship with another woman.

Gertraud Möhwald was a ceramic artist and sculptor. According to the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, she is one of the most important contemporary German artists in the field of ceramics. Her extraordinary work and her teaching at the BURG Giebichenstein college of art have influenced generations of artists.

She was a singer, composer and music teacher, founder of a music school and a women's choir. Even during her lifetime she made a name for herself in the then very male-dominated cultural scene. Reichardt composed over 90 songs and choral settings.

Anita Augspurg was the first woman to receive a doctorate in law in the German Empire. With her partner Lida G. Heymann, she belonged to the radical wing of the first women's movement. She worked for women's voting rights and against restrictions on the freedom of prostitutes.

Mala Zimetbaum was a Belgian Jew of Polish heritage. She was deported to Auschwitz and continued to put up resistance against the Nazis, saving the lives of many inmates of the concentraion camp before being murdered there.

The free square represents the three dots at the end of a sentence, the to be continued at the end of a story, the cliffhanger to the next episode. It emphasizes that the wall makes no claim to completeness and gives you the opportunity to think about which Wonderful Woman you would like to see on the wall.

Diana Nyad is an American long-distance swimmer. She was the first person to swim from Havana to Florida without a shark cage. The then 64-year-old reached the US coast after 177 km and 53 hours in the water.

Sookee is a German rapper. Her lyrics are dedicated to socially relevant topics and position themselves clearly against sexism and racism as well as homo- and transphobia.

Tove Jansson was a Finnish-Swedish writer and illustrator. After expressing her hatred of war and anti-fascism with illustrations during the Second World War, she set an example of tolerance and kindness with her series on the life of the Moomins.

Anni Albers was one of the few women who took over the management of a workshop at the Bauhaus. She established the craft of weaving as an art form and combined it with modern artistic practice. Her work influenced subsequent generations of designers*.

Berta Cáceres was a human rights and environmental activist in Honduras. Among other things, she campaigned for the rights of indigenous peoples. In March 2016 she was murdered by several armed men.

Emily Dickinson is regarded as an important American poet. Her poems, first published after her death in 1890, seem to anticipate the 20th century in many ways.

Loujain al-Hathloul is a Saudi women's rights activist who has been imprisoned since 2018 after campaigning for an end to discrimination against women and the abolition of male guardianship in Saudi Arabia.

"I want you to know that I am quite aware of the dangers. Women must try things the same way men have done," said pilot Amelia Earhart, who in 1932 became the first woman to cross the Atlantic alone.

"Help me to do it myself" - Maria Montessori was an Italian reform pedagogue and philanthropist. The educational concept named after her focuses on the needs and talents of the individual child. Intrinsically motivated, children are to develop their own learning content.

Robyn Davidson crossed the Australian desert in 1977 with four camels and a dog for 9 months. She published her memories of this adventure in "Tracks". Davidson has undertaken further journeys with nomadic peoples in Australia and South Asia.

M.I.A is a British rapper, singer and producer with Tamil roots whose lyrics and music videos often revolve around topics such as flight, racism and oppression of minorities.

Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-Swiss artist of modernism. Among other things, her colorfully painted Nanas - emphatically opulent, rounded female figures - are known worldwide. With her art, she also partly overcame the traumas of her childhood.

Pia Klemp is a German captain and human rights activist. As a conservationist, she is committed to the preservation of the oceans and leads rescue operations at sea under enormous political pressure. With the organisation "Solidarity on Sea" she is working on the decriminalisation of sea rescue.

Hyuro's contribution to the street art and mural scene are works of high quality in terms of content and artistic implementation. They take up social, political and feminist themes.

Zaha Hadid was a British architect of Iraqi origin. Her architectural style and design is unique in its fluidity - in 2004, she was the first woman to receive the most significant honour in architecture, the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Lili Elbe underwent the world's first gender-reassignment operations in Berlin and Dresden in 1930. She died in 1931 due to complications following a uterus transplantation. Her story was told in the 2015 movie "The Danish Girl".

Angela Davis is a US-American activist working for civil and women's rights, poverty reduction and world peace, as well as reform of the American health care and abolition of the prison system.

Vandana Shiva is a scientist, social activist and globalisation critic. The Indian is committed to environmental protection, biodiversity, women's rights and sustainability and works to ensure that these issues dominate the agenda of development policy.

Nemi El-Hassan is a German poetry slammer and YouTuber. In a humorous way she speaks out against racism and for a reformation of thinking.

"Every moment in which people submit to a foreign will is a moment cut off from their lives" - Alexandra David-Néel, born near Paris in 1868, wrote feminist-anarchist texts. As a travel writer she researched Tibetan culture and Buddhism.

Audre Lorde described herself as a black lesbian feminist mother poet warrior and was significantly involved in the development of the Afro-German movement.

Marta Vieria da Silva is a soccer player in the Brasilian Natonal Team. She's a record holding goal-scorer who stands up for justice and equal opportunities.

In 1984 Nawal El Moutawakel was the first African and first Muslim woman in history to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. Since 1993 she has been politically active and has worked to promote women's sports.

We should all be feminists! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie emphasizes - especially against the background of her Nigerian origin - the importance of different perspectives in dealing with each other. She advocates political, social and economic equality between the sexes.

Aretha Franklin was an American soul singer and songwriter. With "Respect" she became one of the icons of black music in the USA in the late 1960s. The song is considered an important soul classic and one of the anthems of the women's movement.

Jane Jacobs was a Canadian-American urban planning critic who advocated a diverse street scene in 1950s New York. She pleaded for naturally grown quarters where living, working and leisure coexist.

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is a German chemist who uses social media formats to arouse enthusiasm for scientific topics, especially among young people, and passes on her knowledge in vivid videos.

As a member of the Polish resistance, Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children and young people from the Warsaw ghetto from the National Socialists.

Hannah Arendt was a German-American Jew and one of the most important political theoreticians and publicists of the 20th century. Her works cover a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from reflections on power and evil, direct democracy and totalitarianism.

Johanna Charlotte Unzer was a poet and philosopher of the 18th century. She was born in Halle and was particularly committed to the education of women. She received great attention during her lifetime for her work "Grundriß einer Weltweisheit für das Frauenzimmer" (Outline of a Worldly Wisdom for the Female).

Betty Heimann was the first privat lecturer of Indology at the University of Halle from 1923-1931. The Indian world view was of particular interest to her - she personally studied it during a research trip to India.

Marvia Malik is a Pakistani transgender newscaster and media figure. In Muslim and largely conservative Pakistan, transgender men and women did not achieve equal rights under the constitution until 2018 and continue to live with severe hostility.

Artemisia Gentileschi is considered the most important painter of the baroque period. The Italian painter developed her characteristic colouring and perfected the painted drapery. Her work enabled her to have her own independent studio.

Jenny Gertz was a visionary of free children's and youth dance in Halle (Saale) in the 1920s. In the "House of Dancers", unique in Europe, young people from working class families received individual support from the only dance teacher for free movement dance to date.

Clara Schumann was a German pianist and composer who was able to assert herself in the circle of male composers in the 19th century and stand out with her own works as well as with interpretations of previous works.

Lisa Simpson is a main character in the animated series The Simpsons. Her constant sense of moral rectitude and her unbridled optimism make the feminist, environmental activist and animal rights activist a significant and influential television character.

Asma Jahangir campaigned to end military dictatorship in Pakistan. She founded the country's first women-led law firm and fought against honour killings, the death penalty and for women accused of "adultery" after rape.

Loung Ung survived the genocide by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia as a child, lost her parents and was abused as a child soldier. The film adaptation of her book "First They Killed My Father" in cooperation with Angelina Jolie helps young generations to come to terms with the crimes.

Gulnara Shahinian is an Armenian human rights defender. With her NGO "Democracy Today", she is committed to democratic processes and invests in building a gender-sensitive, inclusive society.

Valentina Tereškova was a Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space in 1963. From today's perspective, her life as the perfect mascot for communism is questionable, because the political regime modelled her as an icon of technological progress.

Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-French cartoonist, filmmaker and illustrator, who became world famous for her comic autobiography "Persepolis". The publication deals with the everyday life of her childhood in Iran, which was influenced by the political tensions of the 1970s.

"You are not born a woman, you are made a woman" - Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most important authors* of existentialism and one of the founders of feminism after 1968. Her work "The Other Sex" 1949 makes her a leading intellectual of France.

"Possessions and assets had been stolen from us, but not work done in the fight for freedom, justice and peace", said women's rights activist Lida Gustava Heymann. With her inheritance, she founded an institution with counseling and lunch for working women.

Christine de Pizan was a French writer and philosopher of the 14th century. She is considered the first women's rights activist and female professional writer in history. In her works she defended the dignity of women and worked for peace in her country.

Mary Winston Jackson was an American engineer. In addition to her contributions to aerospace engineering, Jackson worked in NASA's human resources department to promote women, got involved in educational projects and founded a science club for black youth.

"We cannot ignore the fact that millions of people in the world are suffering." The actress Angelina Jolie uses her fame to place humanitarian problems in mass media and also works as a director for humanity and tolerance.