by Irina Korschunow · Dtv · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423078238
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«Er hieß Jan» is the young adult historical novel by Irina Korschunow, published by Dtv in paperback (160 pages, in German).
At the end of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Regine hides on a farm with two peasant women and a French prisoner. Through a flashback, her encounter with Jan, a Polish forced labourer, is reconstructed, along with the relationship that develops between them despite the stigma imposed by the regime; that love puts them in mortal danger.
The work was originally published in 1979; this Dtv edition dates from 1997. It is number 7823 in the dtv pocket collection and won the Zilveren Griffel award in 1985.
Recommended for young people aged 12 and up, it is frequently read in schools and is also used in German as a foreign language classes.
Irina Korschunow was a German writer. Her oeuvre comprises short stories, novels theatrical works and film scripts. Born in Stendal, she started her career as a journalist and writer for children's books and young adult literature but focused predominantly on writing novels in her later years since about 1983. She was also a translator.
