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Contemporary Reception of The Artificial Silk Girl

In Berlin, Keun was received with much praise. In one newspaper, Der Querschnitt, published in July 1932, a review claimed that Keun was the first female German humourist (‘was es noch niemals gegeben hat: eine deutsche Humoristin’) whilst another asserted that her novels should be read everywhere (‘Irmgard Keun sollte nicht nur also Dichterin, sollte auch als Frau und Mensch überall gelesen, überall verstanden werden’). Another newspaper review, from Sherl’s Magazin, describes Keun’s novel as ‘the novel of the young’ (‘das Buch aller jungen Menschen’) and engages with the more modern analyses of the issues of materialism, saying ‘not everything that is gold, shines’ (‘nicht alles Gold ist, was glänzt’). At least in Weimar Berlin, Keun mostly met with much literary success indeed.