· IRMGARD KEUN become an overnight sensation in German literary circles with the publication of her first novel, Gilgi, in Her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, shot to bestseller status in , only to be placed the next year on an early Nazi blacklist. Eventually sentenced to death by the Nazis, she fled the country again and staged her own suicide then snuck back into Germany ISBN Gilgi is the third novel by Irmgard Keun I have read. During previous German Literature Months I read her Artificial Silk Girl and then After Midnight. A cynic might sum up her work as Sex in the City on Alexanderplatz in late Weimar, early Nazi Germany. · From Wikipedia I learned that “Gilgi” was the first novel by a writer named Irmgard Keun (), who had been the It Girl of the German literary scene Author: Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.
Irmgard Keun's Gilgi?eine von uns () in the gendered political and cultural discourses of the inter-war years. The protagonists of both texts embody a new idealized female type: the rationalized, desexualized, yet compassionate worker of the modern age. By advocating this reconfiguration of the "New Woman" into. IRMGARD KEUN () was born in Berlin and raised in Cologne, where she studied to be an actress. However, reputedly inspired by a meeting with Alfred Döblin, the author of Berlin Alexanderplatz, she turned to writing, and became an instant sensation with her first novel, Gilgi, One of Us, published in when she was just twenty-six. Irmgard Keun's disappearing act, amid the general chaos of Germany in the interwar and post-war periods, makes piecing together the author's life a bit of a challenge.
From Wikipedia I learned that “Gilgi” was the first novel by a writer named Irmgard Keun (), who had been the It Girl of the German literary scene in the final years of the Weimar Republic. Gilgi is the third novel by Irmgard Keun I have read. During previous German Literature Months I read her Artificial Silk Girl and then After Midnight. A cynic might sum up her work as Sex in the City on Alexanderplatz in late Weimar, early Nazi Germany. Gilgi is a secretary in a hosiery firm, but she doesn’t intend to stay there for long: she’s disciplined and ambitious, taking language classes, saving up money to go abroad, and carefully.
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