The Mainz Women's Calendar has been published regularly since 1990. Twelve calendar stories introduce women from Mainz who played a role in the city's history. In addition, a digital women's calendar will be published this year. The approach is the same: to give a face to women from earlier centuries. This digital women's calendar was created in the winter semester of 2022/23 as part of the project exercise "Women of Mainz in the Early Modern Period" led by Prof. Dr. Bettina Braun at the History Department of Johannes Gutenberg University in collaboration with the Mainz City Archives. The authors' collective included Aileen V. J. Bauer, Loredana I. Bland, Johannes Eckhardt, Sarah Funk, Charlotte K. Groß, Rebecca Kleinort, and Lea Milnazik.

The Digital Women's Calendar is published under the title "12 Women from Mainz and One Unknown Woman" and presents stories about women from Mainz from around 1800. Richly illustrated, readers can learn about the lives of people from this period.

Nobles and citizens, nuns and wives, hard-working craftswomen and nonconformist women, such as the bookbinder Maria Eva Daniels, who became a revolutionary. The last story tells the tale of an (almost) unknown woman. In 1782, 19-year-old Anna Maria Schmitt was picked up by the police on charges of "living a dissolute life." She was pregnant and thus, in the language of the time, a "fallen girl"...