In the Waiting Room of Literature: Helen Grund and the Practice of Travel and Fashion Writing

Helen Grund was one of Weimar Germany's most intriguing authors of fashion journalism and short prose. Her essays, published between 1925 and 1935 in the Frankfurter Zeitung and Die Dame, enriched in various ways the generic spectrum of the feuilleton and the travelogue (Reisebericht) and thus constructed a medium of expression frequently preferred by many women writers and reporters of that time. Grund's short prose could also serve as an example of the representation of a specifically feminine experience in the modern metropolis and can be read as a testimony of the German flâneuse.