of short stories, Ein Pfund Orangen (A Pound of Oranges, 1929), and became engaged to a local swimming star in Ingolstadt, Bepp Haindl, which was later called off in 1929. After moving to Berlin, she worked as a freelance journalist and author, publishing a travelogue about her journey to Andorra with her then fiancé, the arch-conservative journalist and poet Hellmut Draws-Tychsen. She sunk further into intellectual and social isolation and financial troubles due to her liaison with the notorious conservative, and her subsequent works published in the early 1930s, such as the novel Ein Zierde für den Verein was met with tepid reviews and sales. This culminated in an attempted suicide in 1932 and her move back to Ingolstadt, where she married her first fiancé, the shop owner Bepp Haindl, who forbid her from writing and demanded that she work in his tobacco shop; her fall into contemporary obscurity was sealed in 1935, when was she partially forbidden to write by the Nazis due to her leftist political sympathies and innovative modernist style. The 1930s and 1940s were a difficult period for Fleißer, who suffered from mental illness and unhappiness caused by the stresses and deprivations of war and the work demands placed on her by her husband; after the fall of the Third Reich in 1945, she managed to write little, such as the play Karl Stuart (1944). It was only from the mid-1950s onwards that Fleißer began her gradual reemergence as a known and celebrated writer. After the death of her husband in 1958, she began writing in earnest again, such as the short story "Avantgarde" (1963) and the play Der starke Stamm (1966), which premiered at the Schaubühne in West Berlin. Awarded a literary prize by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1953 and invited to join in 1954, Fleißer was "rediscovered" by a trio of famous young male playwrights and critics, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Sperr, and Franz Xaver Kroetz (whom she nicknamed her "sons"), who brought her major works of fiction and theater back into the public eye throughout the 1960s and 1970s. For example, Pioneers in Ingolstadt was adapted as a TV film by Fassbinder in 1971. Upon the publication of her complete works, Gesammelte Werke (1972), by the renowned Suhrkamp Verlag, she was award the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1973, before dying on February 2, 1974. Work Fleißer's best-known works are