^ 'A 'Midnight' Tale Of The Rising Third Reich'.International Publishing in the Netherlands, 1933-1945: German Exile, Scholarly Expansion, War-Time Clandestinity. ^ Edelman, Hendrik (September 24, 2010).In 1981, After Midnight was adapted into a film, directed by Wolf Gremm and starring Désirée Nosbusch as Sanna. Yet Keun's spirited defense of common decency stands out after all this time.' In Inside Story, Dr Geoff Wilkes called it 'a minor masterpiece of satiric simplicity.' Adaptations Publishers Weekly wrote of it 'Much of the material is dated, and the clever repartees, the little ironies seem sadly irrelevant now. An English edition was published the following year by Alfred A. Another Amsterdam-based publisher, Querido, would publish the book in 1937. Publication Īfter Midnight was rejected by Keun's Amsterdam-based publisher Allert de Lange, who feared that the book would damage the firm's commercial interests in Germany. Sanna Moder is in love with her cousin Franz, and she and her friends try and enjoy life and what freedom they have in a city and country that is falling deeper under Nazi rule. A near-fine copy of a scarce and unsettling novel.Das Mädchen, mit dem die Kinder nicht verkehren durftenĪfter Midnight ( German: Nach Mitternacht) is a 1937 novel by Irmgard Keun, set in Frankfurt am Main during the early Nazi period. But that was more than enough.” After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Keun’s suicide was reported in the British press (a rumor likely planted by Keun herself) very much alive, she returned to Germany, where she lived under an assumed name until the end of the war. I said quite innocently that I'd rather not listen because he always made me feel as if I were being scolded.

Keun’s firsthand experience of Nazi power and characteristic light touch give the novel a remarkable atmosphere of menace, as a group of friends in Frankfurt are torn apart by Hitler’s rise before they fully understand what is happening: “Someone mentioned that Göring was going to broadcast that evening.

After unsuccessfully suing the Gestapo for lost royalties, Keun fled Germany in 1936 and published After Midnight in Amsterdam the following year. Keun’s bestselling early novels Gilgi (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), chronicling the lives of liberated “new women” in the Weimar Republic, were blacklisted by the Nazis as anti-German in 1933. First American edition of this cautionary tale, originally published as Nach Mitternacht by exiled German novelist Irmgard Keun (1905-1982). Original black patterned cloth stamped in bright blue, top edge stained blue. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches:, 238. Keun, Irmgard Cleugh, James (translator) After Midnight

After Midnight by Irmgard Keun