from Margarete Böhme, The Diary of a Lost One (1905)
Emmy Hennings’s Work in Vaudeville: The Divining Spider (1915)
from Emmy Hennings, Prison (1919)
from Siegmund Bing, review of Das Brandmal [Branded], Frankfurter Zeitung (7 May 1921)
Religious Contexts
from Saint Augustine, Confessions
from Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (1418)
Social Contexts
from Tony Kellen, The Plight of our Actresses: A Study of the Economic Situation and Moral Standing of Stage Artists, as well as a Warning and Guidance for Young Ladies who wish to Dedicate themselves to the Stage (1902)
from Camillo Karl Schneider, The Prostitute and Society: A Socio-Ethical Study (1908)