Fräulein Prolet

In the organizer's words:

Munich, November 8, 1923

State of emergency, inflation, rumors of a coup. The young photographer Fritzi dares to attend an illegal rally. Together with her "Weibergang", the women of the "Bund sozialistischer Frauen" (BSF), she celebrates the fifth anniversary of the revolution on the Theresienwiese. The women denounce the increasing terror of the right-wing militant groups and call for a republic instead of a regulatory cell. Suddenly, Fritzi disappears in the belly of the Bavaria. Has she been kidnapped? Who has an interest in making Fritzi disappear?

In "Fräulen Prolet", Cornelia Naumann has traced the forgotten women of the BSF and brought astonishing things to light.

"If anyone has a deep understanding of the Bavarian Revolution of 1918 and the role of women in it, it's Munich author and dramaturge Cornelia Naumann," wrote journalist Antje Weber in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on March 27, 2024.

Cornelia Naumann, born in Marburg, has been dealing with important, unjustly forgotten women for many years. Her plays about the traveling comedian Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld and the German-Jewish poet Gertrud Kolmar were followed by biographical novels about Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Isabeau de Bavière and the philosopher Christine de Pizan.

She published "Steckbriefe" with Günther Gerstenberg in edition av and "Ich hoffe noch, dass aller Menschen Glück nahe sein muss", documents of the revolutionary life of Sarah Sonja Lerch, née Rabinowitz, also the subject of her novel "Der Abend kommt so schnell" (Meßkirch 2018).

Cornelia Naumann lives and works in Munich and on Nordstrand.

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