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Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982

LC control no.n 84805120
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPT2621.E92
Personal name headingKeun, Irmgard, 1905-1982
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Variant(s)Koĭn, Irmgard, 1905-1982
Койн, Ирмгард, 1905-1982
Tralow, Charlotte, 1905-1982
Other standard no.0000 0001 1008 7267
59879056
Q71461
Associated countryGermany Belgium Netherlands
Birth date1905-02-06
Death date1982-05-05
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Place of deathCologne (Germany)
Field of activityGermany--History--1918-1933 Germany--Intellectual life--20th century
Weimar Republic
Profession or occupationWriters Novelists
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHer Ferdinand, der Mann mit dem freundlichen Herzen, c1981: t.p. (Irmgard Keun) jkt. (b. 2/6/1910 in Berlin)
NUC, pre-1956 (hdg.: Keun, Irmgard, 1909- )
Brockhaus: Bd. 6, p. 267 (b. 2/6/1910 in Berlin)
Wilpert. Deutsches Dichterlexikon: p. 377 (b. 2/6/1910 in Berlin)
Kosch. Deutsches Literaturlexikon, 1953: Bd. 2, p. 1261 (b. 2/6/1909 in Cologne)
Kosch. Deutsches Literaturlexikon, 3. Aufl., 1981: Bd. 8, p. 1122 (b. 2/6/1905 in Berlin)
Kürsch. Lit. Kal., 1984 (Keun, Irmgard; b. 2/6/10 in Berlin, d. 5/5/82)
Her Ich lebe in einem wilden Wirbel, c1988: t.p. (Irmgard Keun) jkt. (b. 1905; d. 1982)
Child of all nations, 2008: t.p. (Irmgard Keun) p. 185, etc. (b. in Berlin in 1905; she later claimed that her year of birth was 1910, the year her brother was born; grew up in Cologne; d. in 1982)
Devochka, s kotoroĭ deti︠a︡m ne razreshali voditʹsi︠a︡, 2013: title page (Ирмгард Койн = Irmgard Koĭn)
Website for de.wikipedia.org, viewed July 31, 2015 (Irmgard Keun; born February 6, 1905 in Charlottenburg bei Berlin; died May 5, 1982 in Cologne; lived in exile 1936 to 1940, first in Ostende, Belgium, and later in the Netherlands; returned to Germany in 1940, living illegally until 1945)
Keun, Irmgard. The artificial silk girl, 2002: title page (Irmgard Keun) page 193 (In 1931, at age 21, [Keun] published her first novel, Gilgi -- a Girl Just Like Us; her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, appeared one year later. With the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Keun's books were blacklisted. The author left Germany for Belgium in 1936, and later for the Netherlands. In 1940, the Nazis conquered Holland, forcing her to return to Germany, where she survived the war in hiding) Introduction, page xx (Keun returned to Germany illegally under the name Charlotte Tralow)
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