Irmgard Keun (1905–1982)
Autore di The Artificial Silk Girl
Opere di Irmgard Keun
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Tralow, Charlotte
- Data di nascita
- 1905-02-06
- Data di morte
- 1982-05-05
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Friedhof Melaten, Cologne, Germany
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Germany
- Luogo di nascita
- Berlin, Germany
- Luogo di morte
- Cologne, Germany
- Luogo di residenza
- Berlin, Germany
Cologne, Germany
Greifswald, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Ostend, Belgium (exiled from Germany)
Holland (exiled from Germany) - Attività lavorative
- Harriott, Clara Morris
stenographer
novelist - Relazioni
- Tralow, Johannes (spouse)
Roth, Joseph (lover)
Zweig, Stefan (friend) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis (1981)
- Breve biografia
- Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin and attended a Lutheran girls' school in Cologne. She supported herself as a stenographer while originally pursuing an acting career. In 1931, at age 26, she burst onto the German literary scene with two radical novels that became bestsellers: Gilgi--One of Us, and The Artificial Silk Girl. They portrayed young women shedding conventional roles and adopting more modern and urban lives. The Nazi regime called the books "anti-German" and blacklisted them. After a fruitless lawsuit against the Gestapo for lost royalties, Irmgard Keun was forced into a wandering exile around Europe. She befriended a number of fellow German émigré writers and intellectuals including Stefan Zweig and Heinrich Mann, and was romantically involved with Joseph Roth. In 1940, she arranged for a newspaper to report that she had committed suicide. Using a false passport in the name of Charlotte Tralow, she then managed to smuggle herself back into Germany, where she survived the war. During this turbulent period, she produced two masterworks: After Midnight (1937), now considered one of the most powerful first-hand portrayals of life under Nazism, and Child of All Nations (1938). In the 1960s, she spent several years in a psychiatric hospital in Bonn. At the end of her life, she was finally recognized as one of Germany's groundbreaking and most courageous authors.
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- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 1,274
- Popolarità
- #20,133
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 38
- ISBN
- 140
- Lingue
- 9
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- 1
Irmgard Keun, compagna del grande Joseph Roth, pubblica a 27 anni questo piccolo romanzo, scritto in forma di diario, che racconta un anno di vita di una bella ragazza di provincia, che vuole diventare una stella. Sullo sfondo della Berlino del 1931 (disoccupazione, conflitti sociali, antisemitismo), Doris cerca di realizzare i suoi desideri contando solo sulla sua bellezza, la sua disinibita capacità di manipolare e sedurre, e una pelliccia rubata che nasconde la sua povertà. Disillusa eppure sognatrice, cinica ma ingenua, candidamente amorale e opportunista, Doris è un personaggio complesso e affascinante, che intenerisce. Un bel libro, ancora molto attuale. Da leggere… (altro)