As the writer Angelika Schrobsdorff 2006 again returned to the country from which they had been nearly seventy years earlier expelled to Germany, more precisely, to Berlin, she called several reasons. The age and the language in which it is likely to have led a diffuse nostalgia for childhood, her early years in Berlin-Grunewald and Wannsee, to the family roots. But they also provocatively ambiguous she said, in the light of their own destiny, “can die easily in Germany.”
In addition, they justified this return order, not in Jerusalem, where she had lived for many years, political more to feel comfortable, especially not being able to endure the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis. “Religion, nationalism, fanaticism, all matted together. The switches have been submitted before Netanyahu long. The relationships are cemented forever and at the same time like quicksand, “so it has the once in an interview late nineties expressed. Consistently and frankly, the Angelika Schrobsdorff was always – and with fractions, with forced as brought about by her, she could anyway good deal, according to the sentence which they can make the protagonist of her novels: “I teach me my life, as it suits me. “
your novel” Men “in 1961 in the Federal Republic a bestseller
Born on Christmas eve of 1927 in Freiburg im Breigau as a subsidiary of the German contractor Erich Schrobsdorff and of coming from a wealthy Jewish family life artist Else Kirschner, Schrobsdorff had to emigrate to Bulgaria as a 11-year-old. Her father had become an enthusiastic Nazi, the marriage of the parents divorced in 1934, and the mother who had three children by three different men could arrange a marriage with a Bulgarian.
1947 went Else Kirschner with her two daughters Bettina and Angelika back to occupied Germany, the late fifties Angelika Schrobsdorff began to write.
Equipped with the order of the mother, “You have to German men avenge “and when it comes to wild love quite in the track -” My look was my weapon, “should they say later – in 1961 her debut novel” gentlemen published “. In it she tells strongly autobiographical primed and equally liberally as psychologically reflects the history of a young woman and her various relationships with mostly older men in postwar Germany. The novel was translated into seven languages and in the Federal Republic a bestseller, then let Schrobsdorff follow “traces” thematically similar and geographically in postwar milieu fifties novels like “The Lovers” and.
You and Lanzmann married in 1971 – from the marriage came a son
late sixties, she met the filmmaker and later “Shoah” director Claude Lanzmann, whom she 1971 Jerusalem married, with whom she has a son and she “Why Israel” encouraged also to the first film. Her novel “The brief hour between day and night”, was published in 1978, deals with the relationship they soon themselves should solve again, of a life that leads Angelika Schrobsdorff at this time between Paris, Munich and Jerusalem. “She tells what she has seen … with distance and tender irony,” her a few years later, writes her and Lanzmann’s girlfriend Simone de Beauvoir the preface of a book with memories of Bulgaria, “The trip to Sofia”
Just as it held Angelika Schrobsdorff continue after they had moved in 1983 finally and alone to Jerusalem: in the touching memoir about her mother, living with this, about her family at all, and the expulsion of the Nazis, “You are not so like other mothers, “released in 1992 and was made into a film starring Katja Riemann in the lead role. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem” by 2002. Or “Grand Hotel Bulgaria” in 1997. In it she penetrated a trip to Bulgaria for 1996/97 with the experiences she had as a young girl on the run: “My farmers in Bukhovo about, our place of exile fleeing from the Nazis: Without us were the nine people in two small rooms, which were living together. What did you have? Stuff corn, some sheep, white beans she ate from morning to evening. And what hospitality! You have not asked where we come from. “
What a life! At its end it landed just in an apartment in Berlin, which was not far from the home of her childhood. Last weekend Angelica Schrobsdorff died after a long illness at the age of 88 years in Berlin.
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