by Alfred Andersch · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257236088
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«Vater eines Mörders» is a school story (Schulgeschichte) by Alfred Andersch, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (88 pages, in German).
In Munich, May 1928, the pupil Franz Kien attends a class taught by the headmaster of the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium, a classical philologist and father of the future Reichsführer of the SS. Alfred Andersch asks in this story whether humanism protects against totalitarianism.
Original title: Der Vater eines Mörders. Eine Schulgeschichte. 2006 edition from Diogenes Taschenbuch (no. 23608).
For readers of contemporary German literature and school stories with a historical background.
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany, and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer.
