Das kunstseidene Mädchen by Irmgard Keun

Her books were officially banned, and after allegedly colorfully persuading an officer to issue her a falsified passport, she fled Nazi Germany and spent many years in exile traveling through Europe with Jewish author Joseph Roth, while also involved with similarly exiled Jewish doctor Arnold Strauss.

Her husband at the time, Johannes Tralow, divorced her, as she was an outspoken opponent of the new regime while he was a strong sympathizer. Yet almost as soon as her career began, she was imperiled by the rise of the Third Reich. After a few years working in Hamburg and Greifswald, Keun would ultimately leave the threatre for her typewriter: she began writing short stories in the late 1920s, and found immediate fame and success as an writer in the early 1930s with her debut novel, Gigli, eine von uns in 1931, and her second novel, Das kunstseidene Mädchen, which even found international success. And before Bridget Jones was The Artificial Silk Girl.”ĭespite comparisons which often reduce her to the bold sexuality of her writing, Keun was a significant author of the late Weimar period and die Neue Sachlichkeit. She was the daughter of a well-off, liberal family who was allowed the freedom during her childhood to explore the world around her, which eventually led her from Berlin, where she was born in 1905, to Köln, where she began her education as an actress at the age of 16.

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