Vicki Baum: Edition. Bd. 2: stud. chem. Helene Willfüer

Vicki Baum, who was promoted in the media by Ullstein Verlag as the Weimar Superwoman and became an international star author, is regarded as the epitome of the New Woman professionally successful, active, emancipated and beautiful. Her novel stud. chem. Helene Willfüer (1928/29) is one of the most successful novels of the Weimar Republic on the New Woman, who manages to be independent and self-determined in both her professional and private life. In addition, with the topics of abortion and rejuvenation research, Baum takes up other central and controversial specifically female discourses of the 1920s. Previous new editions have modified and shortened the text of the novel; now for the first time a reliable and complete version of the text is available, together with an extensive contextualising commentary section and bibliography.