Unica Zürn , German auteure and painter born in Grunewald the July 6th 1916 and died in Paris in 1970.

In 1931, Unica Zürn marries a dignitary of IIIe Reich and works with UFA as a scenario writer for films produced by this German studio.

Post-war period, she survives by selling her tales and serials with German and Swiss newspapers.

The meeting of the surrealist painter Hans Bellmer with Berlin in 1953 will make it change course. The couple quickly leaves to settle with Paris where it becomes the MUSE of the painter before also launching out it in painting. The couple attends the surrealist coterie with Man Ray, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Henri Michaux or max Ernst.

In 1954, Unica publishes Hexentexte in Berlin and finds a style in its surrealist creations and also a public. The couple lives rather poorly before meeting success.

The fame of Unica is especially due to its two novels Der Mann in Jasmine in 1965 and Dunkler Frühling which is detailed reports of its frequent stays in psychiatric hospital.

Its psychiatric situation worsens quickly and physically not being able to support that, it commits suicide in 1970.