You can watch a recording of this and other CGES webinars by clicking the button above. Born Netty Reiling in Mainz in 1900 into a liberal Jewish family, Seghers studied history, art history, and ...

Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book first published in 1944. Seghers is famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. “Transit” is an existential, political, literary ...

The Austrian civil war of February 1934 was a key event in the unfolding tragedy of that country which culminated in the Anschluss of 1938. The literary response by Austrian writers was, however, very ...

Recently, while I was browsing for something new to read, a book with an unassuming cover and intriguing title caught my eye. It was Anna Seghers’s “The Seventh Cross”—and, as it turns out, the first ...

The novel set in Vichy Marseilles after France fell to Nazi Germany has been released by Qoqnush Publications in Tehran. Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book. Written in German, it was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Anna Seghers was a Communist who wrote this novel in exile in France in 1938. Published in the original German the following year, it ...

Anna Seghers, trans from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. NYRB Classics, $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68137-535-9 German writer Seghers (1900–1983) was among the first writers to address the rise and ...

Anna Seghers, trans. from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-68137-212-9 Originally published in 1942 and available now in its first ...

German auteur Christian Petzold casts Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer in 'Transit,' an adaptation of Anna Seghers' Marseille-set novel. By Boyd van Hoeij The cinema of German auteur Christian Petzold is ...

See no evil, hear no evil? After World War II, many Germans claimed not to have known about the crimes of the Nazis. "The Seventh Cross" by Anna Seghers highlights how much people could have known ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information New German Critique is the leading journal of German Studies. It covers twentieth-century political and social theory, philosophy, ...