“‘My Way’ is a wonderful book: contemporary and theater history, inexhaustible in its themes.” – Der Tagesspiegel
With his memoirs, Peter Zadek, Germany’s best known and most controversial theater director, has written an incomparable book. It reads like a novel about this century: born in Berlin in the 1920s; his Jewish family’s escape to England from the Nazis in 1933; childhood, youth and first experiences with the theater as part of England’s emigrant community. Passionately and with captivating humor, he writes about his work and life, actors and colleagues, friends, foes, catastrophes and triumphs. His memoirs focus in particular on the emigration years, the 1950s in England, the wild 1960s and upheavals of the ’68 period, in which Peter Zadek was entangled in his very own way. At once an irreplaceable historical document and tremendous reading pleasure.
