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Geburtstag: 6. Februar 1905
Todesdatum: 5. Mai 1982
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Irmgard Keun war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.
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„Nachtigallen hin oder her, ich möchte keine Geschichte von Nachtigallen schreiben, obwohl die Tagespresse es schätzt, wenn Autoren über Dinge schreiben, von denen sie nichts verstehen. [... ] Ich nehme auch an, dass Nachtigallenthemen kontrollrätlich erlaubt sind und von der Mehrzahl unserer augenblicklichen deutschen Diktaturen nicht beanstandet würden. Aus Gründen der Sittlichkeit wird heute vieles beanstandet. Diktaturen sind immer sehr streng in Bezug auf das, was sie unter sittlich und Volksmoral verstehen. Die ehemalige deutsche Diktatur hat sich, nach Art niederer Lebewesen, durch Spaltung fortgepflanzt und heißt jetzt Demokratie.“
— Irmgard Keun
Ferdinand, der Mann mit dem freundlichen Herzen. Düsseldorf: [Erstausgabe Droste 1950] Claassen, 1981. S. 15. ISBN 3-546-45372-7
„They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
„If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for hours and has this pious look on her face, she's called a German mother and a decent woman. If a young woman without money sleeps with a man with no money because he has smooth skin and she likes him, she's a whore and a bitch.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
„Yes, there are stars," I lie and I give them to him--there are no stars--but there must be some behind the clouds and they must be shining inside-out tonight. I love stars, but I hardly ever notice them. I guess when you're blind, you realize how much you forget to see.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
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„Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I'm going to buy him a tie, because that's something I can do. Someone once told me that I have an almost masculine understanding of it. i guess there are situations where having a past is to your advantage. Heavenly Father, perform a miracle and give me an education--I can do the rest myself with make-up.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
„But I say: "Tilli, sometimes women too are sensual and want only that one thing." And there's no difference. Because sometimes I only want to wake up with someone in the morning, all messed up from kissing and half dead and without any energy to think, but wonderfully tired and rested at the same time.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
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„And it was then that I knew what it means to be lucky--lucky to have met a person during those three minutes of the day that he's good. Because I have a lot of time on my hands--you can imagine that that adds up. there are 24 hours in a day, and half of that is night. That leaves you with 12. And that's 12 times 60 minutes, that is, 720 minutes minus three minutes of goodness still leaves you with 717 minutes worth of nasty ordinary person.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
„I so want to give him my notebook--I want to be a real person--he should read my book--I work for him, I cook for him, I'm Doris--Doris isn't just some piece of dirt. I don't want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss's imagination.“
— Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl
