The dead man in the bunker
The dead man in the bunker. Report about my father is a book by Martin Pollack from 2004, it is assigned to the genre Holocaust literature.
author
Martin Pollack was born on May 23, 1944 in Bad Hall. He studied Eastern European history and Slavic studies at the University of Vienna and Warsaw , among others . Today he is a journalist, writer and literary translator.
content
In 1947 the body of SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Gerhard Bast , a member of the Gestapo and war criminal, found at the entrance of a bunker on the Austrian-Italian border. At this point in time, his son and author of this book - Martin Pollack - was less than three years old. Up to adulthood he has only a blurred picture of his father, composed of anecdotal stories from his mother. Now, 50 years later, he is actively trying to grapple with the life and murder of his father in order to "decipher whatever would remain fragmentary". He illuminates the family history of the Basts from the 19th century to the present, but a personal distance between him and his father, sketched out in the form of files and notes, remains until the end.
reception
- The daily newspaper from December 18, 2004
- The time of October 7, 2004
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from October 6, 2004
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung from September 11, 2004
- Süddeutsche Zeitung from August 28, 2004
expenditure
- Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05318-2 .
- German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-13528-X .
- polish: Śmierć w bunkrze: opowieść o moim ojcu. Wydawn. Czarne, Wołowiec 2006, ISBN 83-89755-41-6 .
- English: The dead man in the bunker. Faber and Faber, London 2006, ISBN 0-571-22800-3 .
- Spanish: El muerto en el búnker. El Tercer Nombre, Madrid 2005, ISBN 84-934105-7-8 .
- Czech: Mrtvý v bunkru: zpráva o mém otci. Host, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-7294-246-6 .
- Ukrainian: "Мрець у бункері". Видавництво Книги-XXI, Чернівці, 2014, ISBN 978-617-614-063-4 .