1931: Doris is young, pretty and bored: Day in, day out, she types letters for a pushy lawyer. But she wants to get out of the provinces, "become a glamour" and, wrapped in an expensive fur coat, she throws herself into the big world, into the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties. She visits dance halls, bars and literary cafés, falls in love, is abandoned, gets stranded, is picked up and in the end loses everything - except her hunger for life. With great originality, wit and ingenuity, Irmgard Keun tells of a desperate longing for a self-determined life at a time when the demise of freedom and humanity was already looming.

Reading with Fritzi Haberlandt
4 CDs |.