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Jurek Becker (Paperback)
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This book is intended both as an introduction for the general
reader and as a resource for the specialist. It contains a tribute
to Jurek Becker specially written for this volume by his friend and
colleague Peter Schneider, together with a revealing interview and
a tabular biographical outline. The contributions on varying
aspects of Becker's work are complemented by the fullest
bibliography to date of both primary and secondary works. Jurek
Becker was a rare figure in German literature in more than one way.
As an Auschwitz survivor of Jewish origins he was one of the few
German writers able to take a victim's perspective on the
Holocaust, most famously in his first novel Jakob der Lugner, a
world-wide success. As a GDR writer who came into conflict with the
authorities despite a life-long commitment to socialism he was in
the peculiar position of being allowed to live in the West while
retaining his GDR visa. His work remains as a landmark of that
state, with novels such as Bronsteins Kinder treating the problem
of post-war Jewish identity and the legacy of National Socialism
within a GDR setting. As a novelist Becker achieved the unusual
feat of both critical and commercial success, but it was as a
writer of television screenplays that he achieved his greatest
fame. Series like Liebling Kreuzberg and Wir sind auch nur ein Volk
were not only watched by millions but also, in the latter case,
encapsulated the problems Germany faces in reconciling itself to
the consequences of unification. Jurek Becker's untimely death in
March 1997 deprived German literature of an irreplaceable figure
who belongs, as Peter Schneider asserts in this volume, to one of
only a small number of German writers of his generation who will be
remembered a century hence.
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