![]() Another is fellow lodger Frl Mayer, a musical hall yodler, actress, proud Bavarian and “ardent Nazi” whose natural enemy is Frau Glauterneck, the Galician Jewess who lives in the apartment below theirs.Ĭoming into the living room yesterday morning, I found Frl Schroeder and Frl Mayer lying flat on their stomachs with their ears pressed to the carpet. ![]() Instead, she “sleeps in the living room, behind a screen, on a small sofa with broken springs”.įrl Schroeder is just one of the many eccentric and colourful characters Isherwood brings to life on the page. Such is her poor financial situation, that Frl Schroeder has had to take in five lodgers, leaving her without a room of her own. She calls Isherwood “Herr Issyvoo” and takes a keen interest in his life, and that of her other lodgers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The flat is owned by Fräulein Schroeder, who was once fairly well off but like so many other Germans has fallen on hard times. Beginning in Autumn 1930, we find Isherwood living in a “large, dingy flat” above a busy street of shops, where prostitutes gather beneath his window. ![]()
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