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The Girl at the Orga Privat

A Short Novel from Berlin

Geoff Wilkes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
148 Seiten
2024 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80374-532-9 (ISBN)
CHF 66,30 inkl. MwSt
In 1928, Erna Halbe leaves her hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. She must find her way not only in the city, but also in the difficult conditions at work. When her coworker Trude becomes pregnant to her boss, and is sacked, Erna draws on her working-class background to organize her more genteel colleagues into a protest strike.
In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colleagues laugh at her unfashionable clothes and dub her «The Girl at the Orga Privat» when she is given an old typewriter of that make to work on.


The eighteen-year-old Erna must find her way not only in the big city, and among the other young women, but also through the difficult conditions at work, where the salaries are barely enough to live on and the male bosses harass the female employees. When her coworker Trude becomes pregnant by her boss and is sacked, Erna draws on her working-class background to organize her more genteel colleagues into a protest strike.


Rudolf Braune’s Erna is a more radical literary example of the Weimar Republic’s resourceful – but often politically indifferent – «New Woman» than Irmgard Keun’s Doris and Vicki Baum’s Flämmchen.

Geoff Wilkes is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He has written widely about the literature of the Weimar Republic and published translations of works by Irmgard Keun, Hans Fallada and Ilse Aichinger.

Contents: Introduction – Translator’s Note – The Girl at the Orga Privat.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie German Studies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand ; 23
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Tim Mehigan, Gerhard Schulz
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 235 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-80374-532-0 / 1803745320
ISBN-13 978-1-80374-532-9 / 9781803745329
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