Marta Hillers (Libri)

Marta Hillers Libri

Questa autrice, giornalista tedesca, è rinomata per le sue memorie crude e dirette che documentano esperienze immediate durante e dopo la Battaglia di Berlino. La sua opera, inizialmente pubblicata in forma anonima, offre uno sguardo senza compromessi sulla sopravvivenza in condizioni estreme e sul tributo psicologico del trauma bellico. Attraverso le annotazioni del diario, si addentra in temi complessi come la sessualità, la resilienza e il compromesso morale di fronte alla violenza e al caos. I suoi scritti forniscono una prospettiva unica e spesso inquietante dal punto di vista di una donna in un mondo distrutto, contribuendo a conversazioni vitali sulla storia e sulla condizione umana.

A woman in Berlin

311pagine
11 ore di lettura

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account.

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