Death of Angelika Schrobsdorff | A successful but lonely writer – PHOTO

You led an exciting and successful life, which was unfortunately also marked by much loneliness and sadness. “I have no words, I’m lonely, empty, lonely, lonely, lonely,” confessed the writer Angelika Schrobsdorff years ago.

Your many popular books, even their bestseller “You are not like other mothers “they did not accept as a consolation. On Saturday (July 30) is the author died at 88 years in Berlin, as her publisher confirmed on Tuesday.

return to Berlin

After a long time in Paris and almost a quarter of a century in Jerusalem Schrobsdorff had returned ten years ago in their old home.

“It dies more comfortable in Berlin and easily in their own language,” she said at the time in an interview with the “Berliner Zeitung”. The dtv Verlag she praised as “steadfast, incorruptible and valiant woman”.

Born in 1927 as the daughter of a wealthy Berlin contractor and an assimilated Jew in Freiburg and initially guarded grew up in Grunewald, she had in 1939 with her mother before flee the Nazis to Bulgaria – paternal family wanted to get rid of “Jewish load” the. Your grandparents were murdered during the Shoah at Theresienstadt.

The watershed of war and Nazi period described Schrobsdorff later in the novel “You’re not like other mothers” (1992), which in with Katja Riemann was filmed the lead role.

literature for processing traumas

in other works they processed again own experience. “She tells what she has experienced, and she tells it with distance and tender irony,” the great French colleague Simone de Beauvoir wrote in the preface to Schrobsdorffs story collection “The trip to Sofia” (1983).

In 1947 she returned to Germany and began writing later after a serious personal crisis.

a few years her first novel “The Men” cared for his movement of revolt. Other important works were about “The brief hour between day and night” (1978), “Jericho, a love story” (1995) and “Grand Hotel Bulgaria” (1997).

After a failed marriage with the French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann ( “Shoah”) wanders Schrobsdorff 1983 after Jerusalem.

But even there it is not really happy. Because they take “from a sense of justice,” as she says to the Palestinians party, it is regarded by the Israelis soon as Nestbeschmutzerin and Noiseuse. Some of her books are not published until today in Hebrew.

Loneliness and writer’s block

When the author in 2006, embittered by the political situation in Israel to Berlin returns, she is a broken woman. She has her long so freely lived like “cut off” at odds with age and suffering from writer’s block.

“The bird has no wings more” is tellingly named her last book with letters of the half-brother to the common mother .

As she once said to her return to Berlin? “I did not come to live here, but to die here.” (AP)