

The German House
Author: Annette Hess
Narrator: Nina Franoszek
Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/03/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age
Author: Annette Hess
Narrator: Nina Franoszek
Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 12/03/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age
Annette Hess grew up in Hanover and currently lives in Lower Saxony. She initially studied painting and interior design, and later scenic writing. She worked as a freelance journalist and assistant director, before launching a successful career as a screenwriter. Her critically-acclaimed and popular television series Weissensee, Ku'damm 56 and Ku'damm 59 are credited with revitalizing German TV. She has received numerous awards from the Grimme Prize to the Frankfurt Prize to the German Television Prize. The German House is her first novel.
2.5 stars. An important part of history. Eva is a translator working at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in 1963. Eva feels connected to the stories that she translates in court. These horrific stories and their victims keep her awake at night. She cannot shake the images in her mind of the countless w......more
Thank you @harperviabooks for the gifted copy. The German House is a thoughtful post World War II/post Holocaust novel, set during the Auschwitz Trials of 1963. Eva Bruhns is a young translator who learns about her country, and her family’s, role in the horrors of the Holocaust through her assistance......more
4.5 stars When I first saw this historical fiction book was about the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 I knew I had to read it. Even though I have read many historical fiction and nonfiction books about World War 2, I don't often read books that explore the postwar years. The aftermath of the war i......more
This is an historical fiction book which explores the Frankfurt trials, the controversial trails held in Frankfurt two decades after the holocaust which set out to convict the SS men who held senior positions at Auschwitz. This book is written by a german lady, I read the translation in english. As w......more
Frankfurt in 1963 has been rebuilt and optimism is prevalent throughout German society. When a young woman, with only vague memories of the war, takes on a job as translator for the Auschwitz trials she is appalled to learn that the average German in uninterested in dredging up the past. Those unint......more