 She saw this article as forming a bridge between her treatment of Augustine in her dissertation and her subsequent work on Romanticism.When it became evident Stern would not succeed in obtaining an appointment, the Sterns returned to Berlin in 1931.In Berlin, where the couple initially lived in the predominantly Jewish area of "Bayerisches Viertel" (Bavarian Quarter or "Jewish Switzerland") in Schöneberg, Stern obtained a position as a staff-writer for the cultural supplement of the "Berliner Börsen-Courier", edited by Herbert Ihering, with the help of Bertold Brecht.