Der Skorpion, Band 1 is the opening volume of Anna Elisabet Weirauch’s pioneering German-language trilogy published between 1919 and 1931. Weirauch was among the first German authors to portray lesbian experience with sustained seriousness and psychological depth, following her protagonist Metta through the social world of Weimar Germany with sympathy and unflinching honesty.
The trilogy holds a significant place in the history of LGBTQ+ literature as well as in the broader story of Weimar-era cultural freedom. Download this free public-domain EPUB to begin one of German literature’s most important yet underappreciated narrative sequences.