Only the presence of her »soul sister« Thea Schreiber Gammelin, her lifelong friend who lived with her, prevented her from being completely alone at the time of her death. Actually, her whole life was lived in that manner. Alone. Her autobiography in the Slovenian language speaks clearly: Alone. The title she chose for her notes was »Ein Mensch wird ... aus Kidnheit und Jugend«. The narrative of the strip cartoon about Alma M. Karlin draws from her notes, and other texts she wrote. Alma M. Karlin was a cosmopolitan with provincial origins. Stripburger recently published a strip cartoon about her.

The strip cartoon consists of four chapters: Cilli, London, World, and Celje, describing the life of this unusual woman from her childhood, through her health problems, her father's early death, her troubled relation with her mother. She is mostly remembered as a traveller. In 1919 she departed on a journey and gathered her impressions of the world in travelogues.

Alma Karlin's legacy
Her books became bestsellers soon after being published. In her book Mystique of the South Seas she describes her travels through Oceania; in this book she also addresses the relations between genders; it was the topic of special interest to her. Also in her other books she frequently returned to the topic of relations between genders, and the position of a woman within society.

Her three most successful travelogues were later published in one book. Travelogues The lonely journey: tragedies of a female, The Spell of the South Sea and The experienced world: the fate of a woman were published between 1929 and 1930 by the Wilhelm Köhler Verlag publishing house in Munich, and in 1932 all three in one book. Her works are interesting also from the aspect of religion study, as she had dedicated a lot of time to study of Buddhism, and other Orient religions.

T. Č., R. O.
Translated by G. K.