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Mameleben

or: Stolen Joy
Published by Diogenes as Mameleben
Original Title: Mameleben

Magnificent and infuriating, loving and stifling, self-sacrificing yet interfering – Michel Bergmann loves his mother Charlotte, and sometimes he can’t stand her. In this unvarnished book, he tells the story of a strong, obstinate woman who was driven out of Germany, lost nearly her entire family, and was ultimately happily reunited with her future husband, yet too often had to face her troubles alone.


Biographies, General Fiction, History, current affairs
256 pages
2023

978-3-257-07225-9
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»Hilarious, deeply sad. The fact that Charlotte's fate reads as an example of the shattering of an entire generation makes it important. In view of the war in Ukraine, it is also terribly topical.«

Daniele Muscionico / Aargauer Zeitung, Aarau

»[. . .] a truly exceptional reading pleasure!«

Simone Neidlinger / Aachener Zeitung

»We laugh and we cry while reading, and we congratulate the author on a marvellous, unforgettable book, written out of pain and love.«

Elke Heidenreich / Der Spiegel, Hamburg

»Bergmann writes with so much warmth and wit.«

Sabine Doering / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»The author succeeds at telling this grim story with wit, ironic self-reflection and subtle humour, even when his mother acts uninhibitedly and feistily meshugge.«

Lerke von Saalfeld / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

»With an artistically daring balance of natural empathy and ironic distance, he contours a psychologically pungent biopic in rhapsodic style.«

Hans-Dietrich Grünefeld / Buchkultur, Vienna

»A pure pleasure.«

Hans Riebsamen / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

»Hilarious, deeply sad. The fact that Charlotte's fate reads as an example of the shattering of an entire generation makes it important. In view of the war in Ukraine, it is also terribly topical.«

Daniele Muscionico / Aargauer Zeitung, Aarau

»[. . .] a truly exceptional reading pleasure!«

Simone Neidlinger / Aachener Zeitung

»We laugh and we cry while reading, and we congratulate the author on a marvellous, unforgettable book, written out of pain and love.«

Elke Heidenreich / Der Spiegel, Hamburg

»Bergmann writes with so much warmth and wit.«

Sabine Doering / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»The author succeeds at telling this grim story with wit, ironic self-reflection and subtle humour, even when his mother acts uninhibitedly and feistily meshugge.«

Lerke von Saalfeld / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

»With an artistically daring balance of natural empathy and ironic distance, he contours a psychologically pungent biopic in rhapsodic style.«

Hans-Dietrich Grünefeld / Buchkultur, Vienna

»A pure pleasure.«

Hans Riebsamen / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt
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