Wir sind nur Menschen

by Heinz G. Konsalik

Wir sind nur Menschen - bk464; Bastei Lübbe; Heinz G. Konsalik; pocket_book; 1979

255 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

Heinz G. Konsalik (pseudonym of Heinz Günther) was a German novelist.

Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.

Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.

Reviews

[Martin Gafner]

Dank einer grossherzigen Geldspende kann Tropenarzt Dr. Perthes seinen schon langgehegten Traum verwirklichen: eine Expedition in die Urwälder des Amazonas. Vergeblich versucht seine Geliebte, die Kinderärztin Dr. Angela Bender, den tatendurstigen mediziner zurückzuhalten. Die Briefe aus Südamerika verbrennt sie ungelesen. So erfährt sie nur durch Zufall, dass der inzwischen berühmt gewordene Giftspezialist von einer Urwaldspinne gebissen wurde und gelähmt ist. In ihrer Verzweiflung wagt sie ein gefährliches Experiment. (spannend, süffig, sehr schnell durchgelesen in Skiferien 2009)