The stay (novel)
The stay is a novel by the East German writer and SED politician Hermann Kant, published in 1977 by the Aufbau Verlag in East Berlin and at the same time by the Luchterhand Verlag in Neuwied . It is an anti-fascist novel and tells of the captivity of Wehrmacht soldiers in Poland at and after the end of the Second World War . The aim of the novel is the recognition of the guilt of National Socialist crimes also by people who did not commit crimes personally, but who contributed to the Nazi barbarism through their attitude and function.
The novel is based on Kant's own experiences during the Polish captivity between 1945 and 1949, when Kant was imprisoned in a labor camp in Warsaw. Along with Die Aula and Das Impressum , the stay is one of the author's three most successful novels.
expenditure
- The stay . Berlin: construction publ. u. Neuwied: Luchterhand 1977. [first edition]
- The stay . Stuttgart: Deutscher Bücherbund 1978. (Library of the 20th century.)