Cornelia Naumann’s novel “Fräulein Prolet” tells of the turbulent times between 1918 and the Hitler Putsch in Munich in 1923 – and is reminiscent of unknown women’s rights activists and politicians, especially from the Association of Socialist Women.
It starts with a demo on Munich’s Theresienwiese. There were barely 200 people who gathered at the feet of Bavaria on November 8, 1923: exactly five years after the revolution, shivering in the driving snow, they tried to celebrate the Free State’s five-year anniversary. The meeting was not registered; after all, State Commissioner General Gustav von Kahr has declared a state of emergency – there is a fear that the police will break up the demonstration or that a few swastika activists will show up to fight.