LESUNG: Bad Hersfeld liest ein Buch - Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank

In the organizer's words:

A moving literary evening
Together, you will immerse yourself in the moving world of Anne Frank's diary - the most haunting document of the persecution of the Jews - supplemented by five previously unpublished pages that bring us even closer to the fate of the courageous girl in hiding in Amsterdam. Surprise guests await you.

Information about the book Anne Frank - Diary:
In August 1998, five previously unknown pages from Anne Frank's diary were leaked to the public in Amsterdam. Apparently the father, Otto Frank, had not released these passages - which contain critical remarks by Anne about her parents - for publication. Now, after verification of their authenticity, they are being made available to the public and included in all authorized editions of the diary worldwide.
Anne Frank's diary was first published in a German translation in 1950; in 1955 it was published as a paperback by S. Fischer Verlag. In 1986, the complete text-critical edition commissioned by the Dutch National Institute for War Documentation was published, which appeared in 1988 in Mirjam Pressler's translation by S. Fischer Verlag. A version by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler, authorized by the Anne Frank Fund in Basel, followed in 1991. This edition is now supplemented by the previously unpublished pages and presented in a beautifully designed hardback edition.
For Anne Frank, her diary was a substitute for a friend and conversation partner in the confines of her hiding place, an outlet for her worries and outbursts of discontent, and at the same time a training ground for her literary talents. For us, it is and remains the most haunting and moving document of the persecution of the Jews under National Socialism.

Information about Anne Frank:
Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, emigrated with her parents to Amsterdam in 1933. After the German Wehrmacht invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 1940, Anne Frank's family hid with four others in the back of Otto Frank's company. During this time, thirteen-year-old Anne confides her feelings and thoughts in her diary, describing her everyday life in hiding and the overwhelming fear of being discovered. The diary ends on August 1, 1944: the Jewish residents of the Secret Annex are denounced and arrested three days later, the Frank family is deported to Auschwitz and separated there. Anne Frank and her sister Margot died seven months later in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her mother Edith died in Auschwitz on January 6, 1945. Otto Frank, Anne and Margot's father, was the only survivor from the Secret Annex. After the war, he received his daughter's diaries and published excerpts from them for the first time in 1947. To date, the full version of Anne Frank's diary has been published in over 80 languages.

Information on the translator Mirjam Pressler:
Mirjam Pressler, born in Darmstadt in 1940, attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main and lived as a translator and writer near Munich. She is the translator of Anne Frank's diary, has published a biography of Anne Frank ( Ich sehne mich so. Die Lebensgeschichte der Anne Frank ) and has published almost forty books with great success. Mirjam Pressler has received numerous awards, including the German Youth Literature Prize for Wenn das Glück kommt, muss man ihm einen Stuhl hinstellen in 1995, the Carl Zuckmayer Medal for services to the German language in 2001, the German Book Prize (Children's Book) for Malka Mai in 2002, the German Book Prize for her literary life's work in 2004, the German Youth Literature Prize Special Prize for Complete Works in 2010 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the International Literature Prize in the translation category in 2015. Mirjam Pressler died in Landshut in 2019.

Look forward to a moving evening on Monday, 03.11.2025, from 18.30 in your Hugendubel bookstore in Bad Hersfeld!

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