Selected Works

Hermynia Zur Mühlen was born in Vienna in 1883 as Countess Folliot de Crenneville and died in 1951 in English exile. No gravestone marks her final resting place. Admired by Joseph Roth and Karl Kraus, she was an exceptional talent in 20th century German language literature. With her proletarian fairy tales, illustrated by George Grosz and John Heartfield, who were the foremost graphic artists of their time, she invented her own genre. She was also a distinguished political commentator and publicist. This edition of her work, supervised by Ulrich Weinzierl and introduced by Felicitas Hoppe, presents much of her forgotten, unknown and suppressed work in the form of novels (Der Tempel, Unsere Töchter, die Nazinen, and Reise durch ein Leben), memoir, political commentaries and feature articles: the rediscovery of a great narrator and a fighting spirit.