Marieluise Fleisser, a successful playwright in the 1920s, friend of Brecht and Feuchtwanger, struggled for many years to find her place in the literary and cultural scene after the years of her misery during the National Socialist regime, until she was rediscovered in the 1960s by young dramatists like Franz Xaver Kroetz and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After that, her plays were performed again with great success, and she finally gained recognition as a storyteller among a wider audience, although Walter Benjamin had already recognized Fleisser's prose as "artistic means of the highest order" and Alfred Kerr simply referred to her work as "a possession." "I wish that especially young people would hear, see, and read me, and that through me they would gain insight into what lies beneath the surface," summarized Marieluise Fleisser in 1973. She "always crawled into i.