Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun was born in 1905 in Charlottenburg, near Berlin, and grew up in Cologne. A stenographer, she attended a drama school and acted in Greifswald and Hamburg, then began to write in 1929, encouraged by Alfred Döblin. When her books were banned, she sued the state in 1935 for loss of income, without success. Exiled in Belgium and the Netherlands from 1936 and the companion of Joseph Roth, she returned to Germany under a false name in 1940 and lived in hiding in Cologne until the end of the war. She died in Cologne in 1982.

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• NovelGilgiGilgi — eine von unsIrmgard Keun · 1931Literature