Girls in Crisis: Women’s Perspectives in Late Weimar

Abstract

And so I was exactly what you call faithful. But then he had his Ph.D. and was finished studying—physics and all that. And went to Munich, where his parents live, he wanted to get married there—someone from his social back- ground and a daughter of a professor—very famous, but not like Einstein, whose photograph you see in an awful lot of newspapers and you still don’t get a good idea of. And I always think, whenever I see his picture with the cheerful eyes and the featherduster hair, that if I would see him in a cafe and happened to be wearing my coat with the fox collar and drop-dead elegant from top to bottom, dien even he might tell me tiiat he was in die movies and had unbelievable connections. And I would toss back at him, perfectly cool: H2O is water—I learned that from Hubert and it would amaze him.²

At home, you know, they are always talking about the time that is coming when we shall need, soldiers again, and mothers of soldiers.

—Christa Winsloe, Girls in Uniform (1930)¹