Fichtes mother worked as stenotypist and he was mostly raised by his grandmother.
2.
The protagonist is a lower class stenotypist called Gisela, or Gilgi, aged twenty-one.
3.
There are definite similarities between the author, Irmgard Keun, and the protagonist, as Keun also lived in Cologne and was a stenotypist.
4.
The active team had one senior and on junior homicide inspector accompanied by 4 to 10 criminal police officers, a stenotypist and a dog handler.
5.
The backup teams had a senior and junior homicide inspector ( bound in a so-called " Mordehe " / homicide marriage ) plus 2 to 3 police officers and a stenotypist.
6.
Someone once described the New Woman as part flapper, part stenotypist, part working mother : like all stereotypes, it was something of a fiction, at least for women who lived outside cosmopolitan places like Berlin.