Das Schloss der Schriftsteller
2023
C.H.Beck
About the book
English title: The Castle of Writers
Subtitle: Nürnberg ‘46 - Treffen am Abgrund
ISBN: 978-3-406-79145-1
304 pages with 31 images
Publication date: 16.02.2023; 3rd edition 2023
We have sold English, Spanish and Hungarian translation rights so far.
Content
There have probably never been as many famous writers and reporters from all over the world gathered together under one roof as there were in Nuremberg in 1946. They came to report on the crimes of the war and the Holocaust which were being tried at the International Military Tribunal there. They lived and wrote at Faber-Castell Castle, talking, dancing, drinking, despairing. In this exciting and moving book, Uwe Neumahr tells their story. Erich Kästner was in Nuremberg, as were Erika Mann, John Dos Passos and Martha Gellhorn, Willy Brandt and Markus Wolf. Augusto Roa Bastos came from Paraguay, Xiao Qian from China. In the courtroom they looked the criminals in the face, and in the press camp at the castle they tried to put the unsayable into words. Holocaust survivors, people returning from exile, communists, representatives of Western media organisations, war correspondents and flamboyant star reporters all came together in the microcosm of Faber Castle. And the experience of looking into the abyss of history as they reflected on guilt, sin and justice, not only changed them as people but also changed the way they wrote.
About the author
Uwe Neumahr is a Germanist and Romance scholar. He works as a literary agent and freelance author.
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