The Bienmann saga

The Bienmann saga is a four-part youth novel series by the writer Willi Fährmann .

The books in the series deal with the Bienmann family for around 100 years. In each book, a different protagonist from a different generation is in the foreground. All four novels bring a certain period of German-Polish history to life.

The saga begins at the end of the 19th century with the wave of emigration towards America ( The Long Way of Luke B. ), the time in the demilitarized Rhineland after the First World War in 1919 ( time to hate, time to love ) and the Second World War and the streams of refugees from East Prussia in 1944 and 1945 ( The Year of the Wolves ), right up to the 1970s, when Spätaussiedler came from Poland to the Federal Republic around 1971 ( Kristina, don't forget ). Each novel is a self-contained story and can also be read individually.

The books of the tetralogy did not appear in chronological order. Rather, The Year of the Wolves came out first (1962), followed by Kristina, don't forget (1974), The Long Way of Luke B. (1980) and Time to Hate, Time to Love (1985).

Current issues

• The long way of Lukas B. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86615-104-7
• Time to hate, time to love . Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-401-02527-9
• The year of the wolves . - Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-401-02528-7
• Kristina, don't forget . Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-401-02529-5
• The Bienmann saga. All four books in one edition, Arena Verlag, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-401-06520-5