Irmgard Keun – författare
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
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För första gången på svenska, i översättning av Martin Lagerholm, kommer nu Irmgard Keuns klassiker Barn utan land. Romanen handlar om Kully, en tioårig flicka som tillsammans med sina föräldrar lever i exil och reser runt i Europa under 1930-talet. Hennes far är författare och har lämnat Nazityskland för att undkomma förföljelse. Den lilla familjen lever ett osäkert liv, ständigt på flykt från land till land, och deras ekonomiska situation är svår. Pappan är ofta frånvarande medan mamman förtvivlat försöker hålla ihop världen för Kully. Historien berättas genom Kullys ögon, vilket ger en kontrast till den politiska oron och de vuxnas svårigheter. I en skarp och känslig, men samtidigt okonstlad och naiv berättarstil utforskar romanen teman som rotlöshet, barndom i kris, hur exilen påverkar individens identitet och ger en djup inblick i emigranters situation i Europa.
Barn utan land (Kind aller länder) gavs ut i Amsterdam första gången 1938. Irmgard Keun var redan en bästsäljande författare när hennes böcker förbjöds i Tyskland. Hon gick i exil i Oostende, där hon bland annat skrev Barn utan land.
IRMGARD KEUN född 1905 i Berlin, död 1982 i Köln, var en tysk författare och journalist med anknytning till den litterära expressionismen. Hon debuterade 1931 med romanen Gilgi-eine von uns som även filmatiserades. 1933 förbjöds hon av det kulturpolitiska organet Reichskulturkammer att publicera sina böcker och 1936 emigrerade hon till Belgien och senare Nederländerna. 1940 återvände hon illegalt till Tyskland och efter 1945 arbetade hon som journalist. Hennes böcker glömdes bort men återupptäcktes på 1970-talet.
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.
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Engelska, 2009100 kr
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Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.
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Engelska, 2021100 kr
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'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Ferdinand - daydreamer, former prisoner of war, wearer of a curious jerkin - drifts around the city, observing life's absurdities, strenuously avoiding his fiancée and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. When he gets a job as a 'cheerful adviser' to those down on their luck, will Ferdinand's fortunes change too?Irmgard Keun's exuberantly funny and touching final novel takes the tiny moments of triumph and defeat in one man's life, and turns them into a moving portrait of the human spirit.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.
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Engelska, 2019100 kr
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A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations'A formidable literary talent ... Sharp yet naïve, Gilgi is utterly human' Irish TimesGilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even when her parents reveal a terrible secret on her twenty-first birthday. Then she meets the charming but feckless Martin and, for the first time, Gilgi finds herself bewilderingly and dangerously derailed. Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany, with its frank, fearless exploration of sex, work and love.Translated by Geoff Wilkes'How contemporary the novel feels, with its portrait of a woman fighting to maintain control over her life and her body' The New York Times
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Engelska, 2019100 kr
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A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations'A formidable literary talent ... Sharp yet naïve, Gilgi is utterly human' Irish TimesGilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even when her parents reveal a terrible secret on her twenty-first birthday. Then she meets the charming but feckless Martin and, for the first time, Gilgi finds herself bewilderingly and dangerously derailed. Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany, with its frank, fearless exploration of sex, work and love.Translated by Geoff Wilkes'How contemporary the novel feels, with its portrait of a woman fighting to maintain control over her life and her body' The New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
135 kr
Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane' Sunday TelegraphNineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.Translated by Anthea Bell
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Engelska, 202097 kr
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Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane' Sunday TelegraphNineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.Translated by Geoff Wilkes
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Ferdinand - daydreamer, former prisoner of war, wearer of a curious jerkin - drifts around the city, observing life's absurdities, strenuously avoiding his fiancée and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. When he gets a job as a 'cheerful adviser' to those down on their luck, will Ferdinand's fortunes change too?Irmgard Keun's exuberantly funny and touching final novel takes the tiny moments of triumph and defeat in one man's life, and turns them into a moving portrait of the human spirit.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
85 kr
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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti has fallen for a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted, and her own aunt could turn her in to the authorities at any moment. Darkly humorous and utterly heart rending, this gripping novel vividly captures the terror and hysteria of pre-war Nazi Germany.
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Engelska, 2011156 kr
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Before Sex and the City there was Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was The Artificial Silk Girl. In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos''s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood''s Berlin Stories and Bertolt Brecht''s Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin''s "golden twenties" with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun''s work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl. Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential "material girl" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Girl, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
205 kr
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Reclam Lektüreschlüssel XL – hier findest du alle Informationen, um dich zielsicher und schnell vorzubereiten: auf Klausur, Referat, Abitur oder Matura! Differenziert, umfassend, übersichtlich! - Präzise Inhaltsangaben zum Einstieg in den Text - Klare Analysen von Figuren, Aufbau, Sprache und Stil - Zuverlässige Interpretationen mit prägnanten Textbelegen - Informationen zu Autor:innen und historischem Kontext - Hilfreiche Infografiken, Abbildungen und Tabellen - Aktuelle Literatur- und Medientipps - Prüfungsaufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen - Zentrale Begriffe und Definitionen als LernglossarDeutschland, Ende der Weimarer Republik: Die 18-jährige Doris sehnt sich nach Glanz und Glamour. Selbstbewusst, mit Pelzmantel ausgestattet und zahlreiche Beziehungen unterhaltend, verkörpert sie ein neues Frauenbild. Doch der Grat zwischen Luxus und Armut, Liebe und Prostitution, Auf- und Abstieg ist schmal. Ein fesselnder Zeitroman!
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In ihren letzten Lebensjahren hat Irmgard Keun Freunden und Bekannten am Telefon aus ihrer Autobiographie vorgelesen. »Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer« sollte sie heißen. Nach ihrem Tod im Mai 1982 fand sich davon allerdings keine einzige Zeile - Keun hatte druckreife Passagen eines Buchs improvisiert, das nie geschrieben wurde. Schon früh zeigte sich Keuns Phantasie nicht nur in ihren Texten, sondern auch im Erzählen über sich selbst. Bei Erscheinen ihres ersten Romans Gilgi, eine von uns, mit dem Keun 1931 über Nacht berühmt wurde, machte sie sich fünf Jahre jünger - so jung wie ihre Protagonistin. 1940 nutzte sie eine Falschmeldung über ihren Selbstmord im Daily Telegraph und kehrte unter neuem Namen aus dem niederländischen Exil nach Deutschland zurück. Nach dem Krieg interessierte sich niemand mehr für die Starautorin der Weimarer Republik. Keun lebte verarmt und schwer alkoholkrank in den Ruinen ihres Elternhauses in Köln. Erst 1977 wurde sie wiederentdeckt. Literaturwissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und Journalisten rissen sich nun darum,sie zu interviewen. Die bis zu Keuns Tod entstandenen Gespräche, die hier zum ersten Mal in Buchform erscheinen, beweisen, dass sie nichts von ihrem Witz, ihrer Fabulierfreude und ihrem Scharfblick verloren hatte. Sie sind im eigentlichen Sinne ihr letztes Buch.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2022
265 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2023
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Häftad, Tyska
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Häftad, Tyska, 2022
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Häftad, Tyska, 2023
174 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2023
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Häftad, Tyska, 2023
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Häftad, Tyska, 2025
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Gilgi, ein Mädchen im Köln der 1920er Jahre, kündigt ihre Stelle als Sekretärin und zieht von Zuhause aus, weil sie das bevormundete Dasein bei den Eltern satt hat. Doch auch das »weiche, zerflossene, bedenkenlose« Leben mit dem Schriftsteller Martin ist keine Alternative, und aus ihrem Leben, sagt Gilgi, »soll nicht so''n Strindberg-Drama werden«. Und da nimmt sie es wieder in die eigenen Hände und macht sich wirklich auf den Weg in die Selbständigkeit. Der erste Roman über eine junge Frau, die für ihre Unabhängigkeit die vertrauten Pfade verlässt.
Häftad, Tyska, 2026
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Häftad, Tyska, 2019
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