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It is the summer of 1929, and in a small German town, a storm is brewing.
Tredup, a shabby reporter working for the Pomeranian Chronicle, leads a precarious existence . . . until he takes some photographs that offer him a chance to make a fortune.
While Tredup contemplates his next move, the town is buzzing. Farmers are plotting their revenge against greedy officials, a mysterious traveling salesman is stirring up trouble, and all the while, the...
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Auf einem schmalen Eisenbett schlafen ein Mädchen und ein Mann... "Es ist Berlin, Georgenkirchstraße, dritter Hinterhof, vier Treppen, Juli 1923, der Dollar steht jetzt-um sechs Uhr morgens-vorläufig noch auf vierhundertvierzehntausend Mark".
Mit dieser reportagehaften Skizze leitet Hans Fallada seinen Epochenroman Wolf unter Wölfen ein. Im Zentrum des Werks...
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If Fridolin the badger hadn't been driven out of his cosy cave in the Huller bush forest by the fox Isolein, he would have been able to continue to cultivate his best qualities in peace and quiet, and eventually become the most lazy, grouchy and reclusive specimen of his species. But now he has to find a new cave. He makes some strange acquaintances, also with bipeds that grow delicious corn on their fields. Hans Fallada wrote this story for his daughter...
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For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release.
Then he gets out.
As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation, deceit, and, with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making ...
Hans...
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In seinem letzten Roman schildert Hans Fallada den authentischen Fall des Ehepaars Otto und Elise Hampel, das Postkarten-Flugblätter gegen Hitler an öffentlichen Plätzen Berlins auslegt, schließlich denunziert und 1943 hingerichtet wird. Im Roman tragen die Protagonisten die Namen Anna und Otto Quangel.
Ursprünglich durchaus Anhänger Hitlers, wächst das Unbehagen...
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It was the turning point before he became a bestselling author: Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police in September 1925, following repeated cases of embezzlement to finance his alcohol and morphine addiction.
At the time, a court-appointed doctor was assigned to assess the extent to which Fallada could be made accountable. This expert opinion, thought to have been lost, was only recently rediscovered. It is an extraordinary find, because it...
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Der Weltbestseller erstmals so, wie Fallada ihn schrieb. Zu brisant, um so gedruckt zu werden: Von der Urfassung des Romans, der Hans Fallada am Vorabend der Machtergreifung der Nazis zum international gefeierten Erfolgsautor machte, wurde ein Viertel noch nie veröffentlicht. Der Verkäufer Johannes Pinneberg und seine Freundin Lämmchen erwarten ein Kind. Kurz entschlossen heiratet das Paar, auch wenn das Geld immer knapper wird. Trotz Weltwirtschaftskrise...
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"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War...
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Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and 'moderate pessimist', lives in constant fear. By night, he is haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped he, and the rest of Germany. More than anything, he wishes to vanquish the demon of collective guilt, but he is unable to right any wrongs, especially in his position as mayor of a small town in north-east Germany that has been occupied by the Red Army. Dr Doll...
10) Alone in Berlin
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How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...