Jeder stirbt für sich allein

In the organizer's words:

after Hans Fallada

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Old Hall

With over two hundred postcards, which they secretly deposit in staircases and backyards, the Berlin couple Anna and Otto Quangel call for resistance against the Hitler regime. After the death of their only son, the Quangels lost their purpose in life. They find it again through the secretly posted messages declaring war on the regime.

Hans Fallada's last novel is based on the real-life case and Gestapo investigation files of a married couple who were arrested and sentenced to death by denunciation in 1942. Shortly before his own death, the author wrote the manuscript in less than four weeks in the fall of 1946, creating a panorama of the lives of ordinary people in Berlin during the Nazi era. The Quangels' selfless love has utopian explosive power: nuanced, moving and still relevant today.