Bücher von Fred Uhlman

Stationen eines jüdischen Lebens im 20. Jahrhundert: Kindheit in Stuttgart · Erster Weltkrieg · Schlagende Verbindung in Freiburg · Eintritt in die SPD und Bekanntschaft mit Kurt Schumacher · Flucht vor den Nazis nach Frankreich · Pariser Künstlerkreise · Ausstellungen · Reise nach Spanien · England · Begegnung mit Kokoschka · Internierungslager · Freundschaft mit Kurt Schwitters

Zwei 16jährige Jungen besuchen die gleiche exklusive Schule. Der eine ist Sohn eines Arztes, der andere stammt aus einer reichen Adelsfamilie. Zwischen den beiden entsteht eine innige Freundschaft, ein vollkommenes, magisches Einverständnis. Ein Jahr später ist die Beziehung zerbrochen. Das geschah im Deutschland des Jahres 1933 ...

A daring novella about the loss of innocence in pre-war Germany.Reunion is the story of intense and innocent devotion between two young men growing up in "the soft, serene, bluish hills of Swabia," and the sinister (but all too mundane) forces that end both their friendship and their childhood.The year is 1932. Hans Schwartz is Jewish, the son of a Stuttgart doctor who asserts that the rise of the Nazis is "a temporary illness, something like measles which will pass off as soon as the economic situation improves." The Holocaust would be unthinkable for these characters, but of course it looms over the story: Hans's friend, the young Count Konradin von Hohenfels, has a mother who keeps a portrait of Hitler on her dresser. The two boys share their most private thoughts and trips to the countryside of southwest Germany, discuss poetry and the past and present of their country, and argue the existence of a benevolent God.The eventual disintegration of this cherished relationship foreshadows the fate of Europe's Jews-- but Uhlman doesn't end his story with neat polarities. Years later, exiled in America, Hans comes upon a revelation about von Hohenfels which provides a stunning denouement and leaves the reader recalling Uhlman's haunting, lyrical descriptions of the vineyards, opera houses, and dark forests of Württemberg."Hundreds of bulky tomes have now been written about the age when corpses were melted into soap to keep the master race clean; yet I sincerely believe that this slim volume will find its lasting place on the shelves."--Arthur Koestler, from the Introduction

'A brilliant work of art that deserves a far wider readership' Ian McEwanFROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNIONReunion is a little-known novel.