The art silk girl

1931: Doris is young, beautiful, and bored. Day in and day out, she types letters for a pushy lawyer. But she wants to escape the province, "to become a sparkle," and she throws herself into the big world, wrapped in an expensive fur coat, into the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties. She visits dance halls, bars, and literary cafés, falls in love, gets abandoned, ends up stranded, is picked up, and ultimately loses everything—except for her hunger for life. With great originality, humor, and inventiveness, Irmgard Keun tells the story of a desperate longing for a self-determined life at a time when the decline of freedom and humanity was already becoming apparent.

Reading by Fritzi Haberlandt. 4 CDs.