Disappearing Acts: Irmgard Keun

Published: April 18, 2024, 7 a.m.

Irmgard Keun (1905-1982) was a best-selling novelist in Germany in the early 1930s. After she ran afoul of Nazi censorship, she became an exiled, \u201canti-German\u201d expatriate hiding from the Nazi regime. That\u2019s when she was reported dead by suicide. But was that really the full story?