Biography books set in Germany (6)


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The Girl with the Leica by Helena Janeczek EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
WINNER The Strega Prize Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield. August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro's twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann, who would henceforth assume the moniker Robert Capa alone, leads the... continue

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The Appointment : A Novel by Katharina Volckmer EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han Kang, a whip-smart debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative. In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can bar... continue

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Wir Kinder Von Bahnhof Zoo by Christiane F. DE

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
I selvbiografisk form fortæller den 15-årige Christiane, hvordan samfundsmæssige forhold, dårlige familie- og boligforhold, samt manglende venner får hende til at blive heroin-junkie og barneluder som 13-årig

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Anne Franks dagbok by Anne Frank, Ari Folman, David Polonsky NO

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Kjære Kitty, jeg håper å kunne betro deg alt, slik jeg aldri før har kunnet med noen, og jeg håper du vil være til god støtte for meg

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Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waiting for most of their wages to be paid. Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home, caught between two cultures and two states that no longer exist. Based on extensive interviews, she cre... continue

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Noi, i ragazzi dello zoo di Berlino by Christiane F. IT

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Milioni di copie vendute negli anni Settanta. E questo libro di Christiane F. resta attuale nella sua forza di denuncia. Frutto di due mesi di interviste e colloqui con ricercatori nell'ambito del sociale, è un libro-cult, una testimonianza lucida e impietosa sul mondo della droga e dei giovani tossicodipendenti.