Liebe Kitty: Ihr Romanentwurf in Briefen

by Anne Frank

Anne Frank hatte einen großen Wunsch: »Nach dem Krieg will ich auf jeden Fall ein Buch mit dem Titel ›Das Hinterhaus‹ herausbringen«, schrieb sie am 11. Mai 1944 in ihr Tagebuch. 75 Jahre später geht dieser Wunsch in Erfüllung. Als Ergebnis einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Anne Frank Haus in Amsterdam und dem Secession Verlag erscheint diese von Anne Frank selbst literarisch überarbeitete Fassung des Tagebuchs erstmals als Einzelpublikation in neuer Übersetzung von Waltraut Hüsmert. Laureen Nussbaum, eine Jugendfreundin von Anne Frank und emeritierte Literaturwissenschaftlerin aus den USA, hat ein Nachwort verfasst, in dem sie das schriftstellerische Talent von Anne Frank heraustellt, wie es vor allem in dieser zum Romanentwurf umgearbeiteten Fassung sichtbar wird.

Genres: Classics

208 pages, Hardcover

First published May 11, 2019

About the author

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Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. 'the back house'; English: The Secret Annex), which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless. Despite spending most of her life in the Netherlands and being a de facto Dutch national, she never officially became a Dutch citizen. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Frank's father, Otto Frank, worked. The hiding place is notably referred to as the "secret annex". Until the family's arrest by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944, Frank kept and regularly wrote in a diary she had received as a birthday present in 1942.
Following their arrest, the Franks were transported to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by the Red Cross to have died in March, with Dutch authorities setting 31 March as the official date. Later research has alternatively suggested that they may have died in February or early March.
Otto, the only Holocaust survivor in the Frank family, returned to Amsterdam after World War II to find that Anne's diary had been saved by his secretaries, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Moved by his daughter's repeated wishes to be an author, Otto Frank published her diary in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl, and has since been translated into over 70 languages.

Reviews

[Fernanda Fujiki · Rating 4 out of 5]

O diário de anne frank é um livro consagrado que nos faz pensar e sofrer com o desperdício de vidas humanas brilhantes, regulares, normais que foi o grande genocidio da WW2, como a pequena anne frank, que se escondeu com sua familia aos 13 anos por simplesmente ser judia. Com grandes reflexoes, desenvoltura, anne teria sido uma incrivel escritora se tivesse a oportunidade de seguir com a vida (ou qq coisa q quisesse fazer da vida). Esse livro contem algumas das partes do diario mas nao o substitui. Daria menos estrelas pois a obra mais completa é maravilhosa, mas jamais quero deixar de reconhecer o talento de anne frank ❤️

[Vanessa Nelles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeder sollte das Tagebuch der Anne Frank gelesen haben. Der Horror des zweiten Weltkrieges sollte niemals in Vergessenheit geraten. Durch das Tagebuch von Anne bekommt man einen Hauch Gefühl dafür, wie furchtbar die Zeit gewesen sein muss. Sehr fasziniert von dem literarirschen Talent der dreizehnjährigen Anne, schwungen teils Sorge und Trauer mit, welche Gedanken das junge Mädchen sich machte und veranschaulicht deutlich die Grausamkeit der Zeit und wie schnell "die Jungen" erwachsen werden mussten. "Glaub mir, wenn man anderthalb Jahre eingeschlossen ist, kann es einem an manchen Tagebn mal zu viel werden.", "Sowohl die Juden wie die Christen wie der ganze Erdball warten, und viele warten auf ihren Tod."

Diese Variante ihres Tagebuchs in Form von Briefen an ihre Freundin "Kitty" hat mir sehr gefallen. Es zeigt Annes Talent und den Wunsch, später einmal Autorin zu werden, woran sie bereits in ihren jungen Jahren gearbeitet und gefeilt hat.

Anne, du schreibst am Anfang deines Tagesbuchs:"Nicht nur, weil ich noch nie geschrieben habe, sondern auch, weil ich glaube, dass sich später niemand für die persnlichen Gedanken und Gefühle eines dreizehnjährigen Schulmädchens interessieren wird, weder ich noch sonst jemand."

Die Wahrheit ist, du bist als Autorin bekannt geworden. Du bist in die Geschichte eingegangen, die Geschichte eines Mädchens und ihrer Familie, die so viele kennen, durch die so vielen bewusst ist, dass wir den zweiten Weltkrieg niemals in Vergessenheit geraten werden dürfen.

[Gönül · Rating 5 out of 5]

Für mich ist das Tagebuch der Anne Frank eines der Bücher, die mich als Jugendliche sehr bewegt haben. In diesem Buch ist die von Anne Frank überarbeitete Version ihres Tagebuches enthalten. Die Überarbeitung endete leider im März 1944. Es war ihre Version für ein späteres Buch und man erkennt hier genau, wass für eine begabte Schriftstellerin aus ihr gewirden wäre.

[. · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐

Und wer glücklich ist, wird andere glücklich machen, wer Mut und Zuversicht hat, wird nie im Elend untergehen.

~ Anne Frank

[Luisa Agante · Rating 5 out of 5]

Li a versão portuguesa da Relógio d'Água. É uma versão muito interessante que me fez recordar a primeira leitura, há muitos anos, do diário de Anne Frank.

[Ella87 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Die geänderten Stellen, die im Tagebuch stehen, sind hier relativ schnell zu finden. Auf jeden Fall sehr interessant.

[Mari Amaral · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Who else besides me will read these letters in the future?” wrote Anne Frank in her diaries from 1942 to 1944 during the Second World War. Since the publication of "Anne Frank's Diary" in 1947 in Dutch and 1952 in English, the book has been published in over 40 countries, translated into 70 languages and sold over 35 million copies, 16 million of which in Brazil alone.

The poem "Death Fugue" by the Romanian Jew Paul Celan (1920-1970), and the books "Is This a Man" by the Italian Jew Primo Levi (1919-1987), "The Night" by the Romanian Jew Elie Wiesel (1928- 2016) and Anne's diary appear as literary works of inestimable historical value and help us to try to understand what was the barbarism that spread across Europe in the 20th century.

There are many accounts of the Holocaust that we know today, but most of them are post-war analyzes by political scientists, social scientists, journalists and historians. And that's where the importance of literature comes in to give visibility to the genocide carried out by Adolf Hitler. In my case, the first contact I had with World War II was through the reports of the Jewish girl who, hiding in an attic, told the world her daily life in the middle of a war, but unfortunately She did not survive to see its end.

"Dear Kitty" is an epistolary novel by Anne Frank that she wanted to have published separately from her other accounts, for two years she wrote her experiences in the world-renowned diary. The letters addressed to her imaginary friend "Kitty" are presented for the first time separately after 70 years and directly translated from Dutch, thus fulfilling Anne's wish.

In this book Anne narrates the events of the "Attic" to Kitty and to Kitty only, Anne tells her secrets and her most intimate desires, without fear of judgment. Anne created Kitty as a subterfuge to look inside out, as an escape, a support to stay sane amid the difficulties of war and family dramas. In addition to the perfect cover and layout, the book also features comments from the translators and an afterword written by Dr. Laureen Nussbaum, born in Frankfurt and a survivor of Nazism.

@thereader2408

[Thifyah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ein Besteller der nicht umsonst immer wieder empfohlen wird, man fühlt Annes Gedanken, Gefühle sowie ihren starken Charakter. Ein muss für jeden Jugendlichen, der sich missverstanden fühlt und sich selber wieder neu erfindet. Zudem ist es sehr bewundernswert, wie sie diese schreckliche Zeiten in Angst immer wieder versuchten bestmöglich zu überstehen. Deutschland hat eine dunkle Vergangenheit und ich denke, man sollte sie niemals vergessen, denn nur so können wir aus der Geschichte lernen und es besser machen. Zu guter letzt, dass Buch ist wirklich schnell zu lesen mit den ca. 200 Seiten.

[Vitória · Rating 5 out of 5]

não deviam nem dar opção pra escrever review desse livro pq ninguém no mundo tem a opção de não gostar de anne frank pelo amor de deus