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Name:	Irmgard Keun
Birth Date:	February 6, 1905
Death Date:	May 5, 1982
Nationality:	German
Ethnicity:	German
Gender:	Female

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Biography of Irmgard Keun
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The works of Irmgard Keun present a remarkable literary document of German life and times from the late Weimar Republic to the postwar period. Keun's novels interweave ironic insights into the psychology of the middle and lower middle classes with...

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Irmgard Keun Information
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Irmgard Keun (February 6, 1905 - May 5, 1982) was a German author noteworthy both for her portrayals of life in the Weimar Republic as well as the early years of the Nazi Germany...

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German Quarterly

Irmgard Keun: Leben und Werk
10/01/2000: 742 words, approx. 3 pages

Marchlewitz, Ingrid. Irmgard Keun: Leben and Werk. Epistemata: Reihe Literaturwissenschaft, 261. Wiirzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1999.197pp. DM 48.00 paperback. In den letzten Jahren ist es wieder verhaltnismaBig still um die Autorin Irmgard Keun (1905-1982) geworden. Keun and ihr Werk waren in der Nachkriegszeit...

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German Quarterly

White-collar Workers, Mass Culture and Neue Sachlichkeit in Weimar Berlin. A Reading of Hans Fallada's Kleiner Mann--Was nun?, Erich Kastner's Fabian and Irmgard Keun's Das...
01/01/2001: 701 words, approx. 2 pages

Smail, Deborah. White-collar Workers, Mass Culture and Neue Sachlichkeit in Weimar Berlin. A Reading of Hans Fallada's Kleiner Mann-Was nun?, Erich Kastner's Fabian and Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Madchen. Bern: Lang, 1999. 236 pp. DM 95.00. Deborah Smail analyzes three now classic novels...

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Das Kunstseidene Madchen
1,102 words, approx. 4 pages

Translated into English as "The Artificial Silk Girl", is one of the most famous of Germany's `Neue Sachlichkeiten' works. This particular novel, in which the protagonist, Doris, a young working class German girl from Cologne, who dreams of the glitz and glamour and bright lights of the big city, Berlin.

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