This study examines characteristics of female proletarian polyphony at the interface of literary and journalistic discourse. Emphasizing the dialogue between reportage and narrative writing, narrative procedures such as self-reflexivity and media reflexivity are assumed to be strategies of female proletarian world making. For this purpose, the two reportage novels
Tea Rooms. Mujeres Obreras
(1934) and
Hotel Amerika
(1930) by authors Luisa Carnés and Maria Leitner are examined in a close reading based on a comparative and media-sociological perspective.