Hedwig Pringsheim

Mein Nachrichtendienst

In 1933, the Pringsheim family from Munich, which had once been outstanding socially, culturally and materially, was at the mercy of National Socialist repression. In the 375 letters to her daughter Katia, who had already left Germany with Thomas Mann in 1933, Hedwig Pringsheim defied the injustice that surrounded and affected her with encryption and numerous literary, musical and historical allusions. For all their witty frankness, their letters are therefore literally sealed. Hedwig Pringsheim's maternal "news service" (October 15, 1934), which is unprecedented in its kind, allows unique insights into life in Munich during the first years of the Nazi dictatorship.

The content of Thomas Mann's diaries largely compensates for the loss of Katia Mann's counter-letters. Information from Hedwig Pringsheim's diaries as well as newly found letters from and to Thomas, Katia and Erika Mann as well as Klaus and Peter Pringsheim helped in the decoding and detailed commentary on this unique human document.

Retail price Germany € 89.00

ISBN 9783835302532

Wallstein Verlag