Volker Weidermann
Autor(a) de Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark
About the Author
Image credit: Volker Weidermann, Leipziger Bookfair 2014 By Lesekreis - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31648460
Obras por Volker Weidermann
Mann vom Meer. Thomas Mann und die Liebe seines Lebens: Ungekürzte Lesung mit Hanns Zischler (1 mp3-CD) (2023) 2 exemplares
Schlump 1 exemplar
Οστάνδη 1936 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Weidermann, Volker
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-11-06
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Duitsland
- Local de nascimento
- Darmstadt, Hessen, Duitsland
- Locais de residência
- Berlin, Germany
Heidelberg, Germany - Educação
- University of Berlin
University of Heidelberg - Ocupações
- journalist
literary critic
novelist - Organizações
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Der Spiegel
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 516
- Popularidade
- #48,120
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 26
- ISBN
- 57
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
In the centre of the story there are Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, connected by a strong friendship, but there are also Irmgard Keun, Ernst Toller, Egon Erwin Kisch and a handful of other writers, as well as their wives and associates: All of them exiled, trying to find a way in this new world, needing to come to terms with the hatred of their home countries of Germany and Austria, but some of them also still hoping against reason that everything will be alright.
The story does not have a real plot, but it does not matter. I could not stop reading because the author puts scene after scene together like a mosaic, painting a vivid and emotional picture of this unique place and time, where a circle of friends come together once more before everything falls apart, and they drift from each other through further exile, sickness, suicide.
It is a short work, but I savored every sentence, every word.… (mais)