Press ReleasesJanuary - March 2017March 2017 [21.03.2017] “Maria Theresa was a relentlessly strict matriarch”. New biography on the occasion of the empress’ 300th birthday – historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger refutes clichés about one of the most powerful women in history: prosecution of Protestants and Jews, cruelty against her own children, hypocrisy at the royal court – book nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair