A novel themed on motherhood interspersed with the diary entries of its protagonist, Kamilla Kramm. Her first love, a young girl she was the governess of, grows up to marry a man. Kamilla then becomes governess to a different young girl, who she has a brief confusion of maternal and romantic feelings. She also hosts a burning love for the girl's father, Leopold von Buchwald, and a jealous attraction towards von Buchwald's female mistress. Finally, after marrying a man she did not love, she enters a sadomasochistic relationship with her husband's male friend, Karl Wolf.

Diary of a Kindergarten Teacher in English.

Trigger Warnings

PEDOPHILIA: The protagonist, a 19 year-old governess, and one of her students, a 13 year-old girl, fall in love. Later, she has a brief romantic fancy at about 22 when she is assigned to the next girl, an 11 year-old with the developmental age of 6.

SUICIDAL IDEATION: Briefly at the advent of Ch. 5 over jealousy for Herr von Buchwald's mistress.

SUICIDE: The protagonist shoots her children and herself at the very end.