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Jurek Becker
In the first biography of this figure, Sander Gilman tells the story of Becker's life in five worlds: the Polish-Jewish middle-class neighborhood where Becker was born; the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps where Becker spent his childhood; the socialist order of the GDR, which Becker idealized, resisted, and finally was forced to leave; the isolated world of West Berlin, where he settled down to continue his writing; and the new, reunified Germany, for which Becker served as both conscience and inspiration.
Jurek Becker
Deals with the life and works of Becker. Ch. 1 (p. 9-20), "Jurek Becker: A Brief Biography", relates that he was born in Łódź ca. 1937. He and his parents were interned in the Łódź ghetto. In 1943 his father was deported to Auschwitz; he and his mother were deported to Ravensbrück and then to Sachsenhausen, where his mother died. He was reunited with his father in 1945 and they settled in East Berlin, where Becker had a complex identity problem. As a dissenter, he escaped to West Berlin in 1979; he died in 1997. Ch. 3 (p. 35-68), "The Power of Fiction: 'Jakob der Lügner'", discusses Becker's first novel (1969) and its use of irony to depict Jews during the Holocaust as ordinary human beings. His non-resisting protagonists contrast with the unrealistic figures in East German anti-fascist literature. Ch. 4 (p. 69-94), "A Jew Who Became a German? Questions of Language and Jewish Identity in the Later Works", deals with the theme of difficulties in communication between father and son survivors in his novels "Der Boxer" (1976) and "Bronsteins Kinder" (1986), and also discusses the ghetto story "Die Mauer".
The Wall
Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. The novel for which he is best-known, Jacob the Liar, won wide acclaim, was awarded the Heinrich-Mann and Charles Veillon Prizes, and was made into two movies. It has been called “a novel about the martyrdom of Europe’s Jews that has never been surpassed” (Times Literary Supplement). The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by Becker that have either never been translated into English or been published here in book form before. The title story, “The Wall,” recounts two boys’ risky adventure when they scale the wall of a transit camp to visit the ghetto their families have recently vacated. In “The Most Popul...
Jacob the Liar
In a Jewish ghetto during World War II, a man manages to raise flagging spirits by circulating rumors of Allied victories and that the ghetto will soon be liberated by the Red Army. At this news, many people who are thinking of suicide decide to live.
The Boxer
"Decades later, after Mark has left home, subsequently emigrated to Israel, and was presumably killed in the Six-Day War, Aron relates the story of his life to a young interviewer. Despite Aron's understandable cynicism, the interviewer ultimately becomes an irreplaceable companion in Aron's self-inflicted solitude, a final bridge to the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Bronstein's Children
"East Berlin, 1973: An 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father's friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard in the family cottage. . . . interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit to his war crimes" ("Booklist"). "A chilly and disquieting novel".--"Los Angeles Times".
The Portrayal of Jews in Gdr Prose Fiction
This volume is the first comprehensive single study of Jewish themes in any of the post-1945 German literatures. It presents literature on Jewish themes by Jewish and non-Jewish authors in the cultural, social and political context of the Soviet Zone/GDR during the entire 45 years of its history from 1945 to 1990. It offers a brief history of Jews in the GDR, before looking, in four chronologically ordered chapters, at the history of publishing on Jewish themes in the GDR. Some 28 texts by 19 different authors, including Anna Seghers, Stephan Hermlin, Arnold Zweig, Franz Fühmann, Johannes Bobrowski, Jurek Becker, Stefan Heym, Günter Kunert, Christa Wolf and Helga Königsdorf, are then sing...
