What if everything your family ever told you was a lie? Frankfurt, 1963 At the war's end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city's streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhn, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jurgen Schoorman, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. But Eva's plans are turned upside down when an American investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial. As she becomes more and more involved in the Frankfurt Trials, Eva begins to question her family's silence on the war and her future. Why do her parents refuse to talk about what happened? What are they hiding? Does she really love Jurgen and will she be happy as a housewife? Though it means going against the wishes of her family and her lover, Eva, propelled by her own conscience, joins a team of fiery prosecutors determined to bring the Nazis to justice-a decision that will help change her country forever.

As seen in the New York Times Book Review. A December 2019 Indie Next Pick! Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. If everything your family told you was a lie, how far would you go to uncover the truth? For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At the war's end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city's streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jurgen Schoormann, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. But Eva's plans are turned upside down when a fiery investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial. As she becomes more deeply involved in the Frankfurt Trials, Eva begins to question her family's silence on the war and her future. Why do her parents refuse to talk about what happened? What are they hiding? Does she really love Jurgen and will she be happy as a housewife? Though it means going against the wishes of her family and her lover, Eva, propelled by her own conscience, joins a team of fiery prosecutors determined to bring the Nazis to justice--a decision that will help change the present and the past of her nation. Translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer

Was geschieht in einer Grundschulinklusionsklasse beim UEbergang zu den ersten benoteten Klassenarbeiten? Was geschieht, wenn Disziplin und Leistung als implizite kulturelle Codes von Leistungsbeurteilung in den Alltag von Zweitklasslern eintreten? Annette Hess beschreibt die Beobachtungen einer Unterrichtsteilnahme im Schuljahr 2015/2016 und analysiert sie in subjektivierungstheoretischer Perspektive. Empirische Beispiele zeigen die subjektiven und situationsspezifischen Faktoren auf, die den Schwierigkeitsgrad von Klassenarbeiten und die Notengebung bestimmen. Die Studie gewahrt Einblicke in Prozesse, in deren Verlauf die Schuler*innen beginnen, das hierarchisierende Notensystem in der Realitat ihrer sozialen Beziehungen hervorzubringen. Situationsbeschreibungen geben Aufschluss uber die schwierige paradoxe Situation der Lehrkrafte zwischen Inklusion und rangordnender Leistungsbeurteilung. Eine Genealogie heutiger schulischer Leistungsbeurteilung im Anschluss an UEberwachen und Strafen (Foucault 1976) verlegt deren kulturhistorische Wurzeln in ein Disziplinensystem des fruhen europaischen Burgertums.