Young woman from 1914
Young Woman from 1914 is a novel by the writer Arnold Zweig . It was written in 1931 and is part of the novel cycle The Great White Men’s War on the First World War, which began with The dispute over Sergeant Grischa and its other parts: Education before Verdun (1935), Appointment of a King (1937), The Break of Fire (1954 ) and The time is ripe (1957).
In 1970, the novel was DEFA and directed by Egon Günther filmed .
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“… A daughter from a good family and a poor man, the writer Werner Bertin, dare to go beyond social conventions. Leonore [sic!] Wahl has the courage to become Bertin's lover and enforces the marriage. Both figures, decently educated, philanthropic and cosmopolitan, experience how an order that they consider intact - apart from a few blemishes - suddenly turns from a long period of peace into a world war. In this historical procedure, the fate of the two splendid people follows, who initially think wrong and therefore act wrong. They advocate a dirty war in good faith. [...] Hard blows and a lot of thought were necessary to sharpen Leonore [sic!] And Bertin's sense of reality so that they could even guess what they had been trained for. They want the imperialist slaughter to come to an end. But they hardly know anything about the men at the levers of power…. "
The Jewish student and writer Werner Bertin was drafted into the surroundings of Küstrin as an armored soldier in the spring of 1915 . His lover Lenore Wahl, the daughter of a Jewish banker, accidentally becomes pregnant. Since her parents do not approve of a marital relationship with Bertin and for fear of being stigmatized by society as a single mother, she has an illegal abortion performed. Bertin volunteered to be transferred to the Western Front. First he served in France , later in Serbia , where he saw through the atrocity propaganda directed against the Serbian people. His unit is transferred to Verdun . Lenore starts working as a teacher. In order to have a war hero in the family, Lenore's parents agree to an engagement. Lenore wants to marry Bertin, also to get him home leave. Her father Hugo Wahl does not agree to the marriage. He is now in business relations with General Albert Schieffenzahn, Commander-in-Chief in the East, which gives the family sufficient social standing. The reasons for the rejection are Bertin's modest social circumstances and his political views. Lenore defies his resistance and marries Bertin.
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- Arnold Zweig: Young Woman from 1914 . Roman, with an essay by Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Aufbau , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-03556-3 (= someone has to start peace ); First edition: Verlag der Nation, Berlin [1929].
- Paperback edition: Aufbau-Taschenbuch 5210, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-5210-3 .
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- ↑ Heinz Kamnitzer : "Title is missing" In: Neues Deutschland from November 26, 1969.