WAS: Anonymous, A woman in Berlin (Eine Frau in Berlin: Tagebuchaufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945)
WO: Post, S-Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, Berlin
WO: Post, S-Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, Berlin
VON WANN: D, 2003; UK, New edition (6. April 2006)
VON WEM: D, Eichborn; UK, Little, Brown Book Group
WAS SAGT DER VERLAG:
Eichborn
Wer erfahren will, wie es wirklich war, wird sich an die Frauen halten müssen. Denn die Männer haben sich in den Ruinen als »das schwächere Geschlecht« gezeigt. So sieht es die Autorin des 221. Bands der ANDEREN BIBLIOTHEK, die das Ende des Krieges in Berlin erlebt hat. Es war der Wunsch der Verfasserin, daß ihr Name ungenannt bleibt. Schon aus diesem Grund verbieten sich Spekulationen über ihre Identität.
Little, Brown Book Group
Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war.
This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account.
Little, Brown Book Group
Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war.
This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account.
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