Dieses Buch dokumentiert die Kinderbriefe des heute 100-jährigen Historikers Edgar Feuchtwanger, die er seinen Eltern 1939 aus England ins nationalsozialistische Deutschland schrieb. Seine Mutter Erna und sein Vater, der Historiker, Verleger und Autor Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Bruder des Schriftstellers Lion Feuchtwanger, hatten den 14-jährigen Sohn von München ins rettende Exil geschickt. Mit kindlicher Offenheit und feinem Humor berichtet er in seinen Briefen vom Alltag in England und bemüht sich, ihnen die Sorge um ihn zu nehmen. Zugleich ist seine Angst um die Eltern immer spürbar. Die Briefe sind eingebettet in ein Gespräch Edgar Feuchtwangers mit seiner Tochter Antonia Cox über seine Kindheit und den Neuanfang in England. Die Herausgeberin Anja Tuckermann stellt den Briefen weitere Dokumente aus dem Familienarchiv zur Seite. Im Vorwort berichtet sie von der lebensbedrohlichen Situation in Deutschland, den Bedingungen bis zur Ausreise der Eltern drei Monate später und vom weiteren Schicksal der Familie in England bis 1947.
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76
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76 Abb.; 133 S., 76 schw.-w. Abb.
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Höhe: 205 mm
Breite: 131 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
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978-3-428-19260-1 (9783428192601)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Antonia Cox, Edgar Feuchtwanger's daughter, studied philosophy and history at the University of Cambridge. She previously worked as a leader writer at the Daily Telegraph, as a policy advisor, co-founder of a new school and served as a City Councillor in Westminster. She is a Secretary of State-appointed Member of the South Downs National Park Authority and has three sons with her husband Simon Cox.
Dr. Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE, born in Munich in 1924, is a historian and author best known for »From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-33« (2nd edition, 1995) and »Bismarck. Eine politische Geschichte« (2nd edition, 2014), for his biographies of the British prime ministers Disraeli and Gladstone, and for »Democracy and Empire, 1865-1914« (1985). In 2003 he received the German Federal Order of Merit and in 2021 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire. His autobiography »Erlebnis und Geschichte« was published in 2010. In 2012, he wrote, with Bertil Scali, a novelisation of his childhood experiences called »Hitler, mon voisin«, which has been translated into many other languages. With his wife Primrose (d.2012) he has two daughters, Antonia and Judith, and a son, Dr. Adrian Feuchtwanger.
Anja Tuckermann's fiction, documentary novels, poetry, picture books and plays have received multiple awards, in particular for »Don't Think We'll Stay Here - The Life of the Sinti Hugo Höllenreiner«; »Mano. The Boy Who Didn't Know Where He Was«; and »Muscha«. Her non-fiction writing on the Nazi period includes »One People, One Reich, One Pile of Rubble« and »We Do Not Stay Silent: The Path to Resistance of the White Rose and the Scholl Siblings«. »Mooskopf«, her first novel, was published in 1988 and since then her books and plays have been translated into fourteen languages. She works with musicians and visual artists and leads writers' workshops.
