by Jan Philipp Reemtsma · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499222214
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«Im Keller» is Jan Philipp Reemtsma's autobiographical account, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH in paperback (221 pages, in German).
Jan Philipp Reemtsma recounts how he was kidnapped in 1996 and spent 33 days locked in the cellar of a house near Bremen until a ransom of thirty million marks was paid. The book focuses on the inner experience: fear of death, waiting, shame, hatred of his captors, and involuntary gratitude at any human gesture.
The work was originally published in 1997; this paperback edition appeared in 1998 in the rororo Taschenbücher series (no. 22221).
For readers of true crime and first-person accounts of kidnappings and their psychological aftermath.
Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg. In 1996, Reemtsma was kidnapped by Thomas Drach and only released after a ransom of 30 million German Marks was paid.
