[1] Discussed in many of the major German newspapers of the time, the scandal caused an uproar in her hometown: the mayor published a rebuttal, distancing the city from its now most famous daughter, while Fleißer's father temporarily disowned her.

[1] During this tumultuous period, which would prove to be the apex of her fame during her lifetime, Fleißer also published a collection 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.

[1] 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.

[1] 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).

[2] 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.