Felix Guttmann

The protagonist, born in 1906, has a sheltered childhood and begins life as a promising young lawyer in Berlin. Maintaining his distance, he watches the political events unfold and tries to steer clear of the daily violence and binding obligations. It is only after the Nazis >seize power< that he comes to feel Jewish and begins to help the exiled, until he himself escapes – just in the nick of time – to Palestine. Despite all the horrors, he continues to feel German and returns to Germany after the war. (Stiftung Lesen)

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 01.01.1985
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-02484-5
  • 318 Pages
  • Author: Peter Härtling
Felix Guttmann
Peter Härtling Felix Guttmann
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Peter Härtling

Peter Härtling , born in Chemnitz in 1933, worked as a newspaper and magazine editor. In 1967, he became editor-in-chief of the S. Fischer publishing house. He began working as a freelance writer in 1974. Kiepenheuer & Witsch has published his complete literary works. Härtling received numerous prizes, most recently the Hessian Culture Prize in 2014 and the Elisabeth Langgässer Prize in 2015. He died on 10 July 2017.

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