Ein Mädchen, drei Namen

Autor(en)
Stephanie Marx
Abstrakt

This contribution presents a reading of Maria Leitner’s novel Mädchen mit drei Namen (1932). The novel intervenes in the contem-porary discourse on the New Woman and extends it by two crucial aspects. First, it documents the desolate living and working conditions of young working women in Berlin in the early 1930s. Second, it addresses these wom-en as potential activists of the workers’ movement. The article investigates whether or under what conditions the literary mobilization of the young gen-eration of women succeeded. The analysis of Leitner’s novel is complement-ed by examining the discussion of Irmgard Keun’s novel Gilgi, eine von uns in the social democratic newspaper Vo r w ä r t s. Drawing on these two exception-al contributions to Weimar’s new generation of women, the article reveals the intricate intertwining of the discourse on their political participation with the ongoing debate about female representations in the mass media.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Germanistik
Journal
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften (OeZG)
Band
33
Seiten
124-143
Anzahl der Seiten
20
ISSN
1016-765X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2022-33-3-7
Publikationsdatum
03-2023
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
601028 Geschlechtergeschichte, 602014 Germanistik, 602003 Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
History
Link zum Portal
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