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
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/ein-madchen-drei-namen(75074e03-f2a9-4426-bfdf-5f807700336d).html