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Jurek Becker
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Language
English
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Released from a concentration camp after the war, Aron Blank looks for and eventually finds the only other surviving member of his family, his son Mark, whom he was forced to abandon when Mark was only two years old. Working first in the black market and later as a Russian interpreter, Aron tries to rebuild a normal life for himself and his son in East Berlin. Decades later, with Mark lost in the Six-Day War, Aron tells his story to a young interviewer-the...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Die Postkarten gehören zum Schönsten, was Jurek geschrieben hat." Manfred Krug
Über 40 Jahre dauerte die innige Freundschaft zwischen Jurek Becker und Manfred Krug.
Einige der schönsten Zeugnisse sind die Postkarten, die Jurek Becker seinem Freund und dessen Frau Ottilie schickte: mit privatem oder politischem Inhalt, unangestrengt, ungeniert, oft urkomisch und stets auf den Punkt formuliert.
Die Produktion wurde im April 2005 auf die hr2-Hörbuch-Bestenliste...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich Mann and Charles Veillon prizes, and was made into two movies. It has been called "a novel about the martyrdom of Europe's Jews that has never been surpassed" (Times Literary Supplement). The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by Becker that either have never been translated into...
Publisher
Icestorm International
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob suddenly becomes a hero as old friends and neighbors flock to...
