Kristina, don't forget

Kristina, don't forget is a book for young people by Willi Fährmann and the last part of the tetralogy Die Bienmann-Saga . The novel deals with the aftermath of the Second World War, the people of German origin in Poland who came to Germany as repatriates .

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Kristina, her grandmother, her mother Rosa and her brother Janec live in Skoronow / Poland. During the conquest of East Prussia by the Red Army, her family did not flee to the FRG like their relatives from The Year of the Wolves , but stayed and had to integrate into Polish society. Nevertheless, the grandmother insists on speaking German and repeatedly applies to the Polish authorities for the family to leave

Kristina feels very comfortable with her friends in Poland. She plays the flute and is successful in school. The friendships are cut off by her family's departure plans. In the ninth attempt it worked, the exit application was finally approved.

The family left Poland in February 1971 and ended up in a small room in the Unna-Massen transit camp and later in the Ruhr area. There they also meet Kristian, Kristina's father, who had fled to West Germany a few years earlier. Another family from Skoronow with German roots, the Donatkas, is moving to the Federal Republic with them. But the resettlement is not easy for everyone involved: Kristina has language difficulties, feels uncomfortable with the abundance of goods in the consumer country, sees herself exposed to unexpected prejudices and misses her friends. It was only through John, a classmate, and her talent for playing the flute that she found a hold and began to put down her first roots in Germany. After she has also taken the step of resettlement internally, she can also bear to see her grandmother die.

literature

• Willi Fährmann: The Bienmann saga . Arena-Verlag, Würzburg

1. The long path of Lukas B .
2. Time to hate, time to love .
3. The year of the wolves .
4. Kristina, don't forget . 2001, ISBN 3-401-02529-5