Stella (novel)

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Book cover of the novel "Stella" by Takis Würger, ISBN 978-3-446-25993-5
Book cover of the novel "Stella" by Takis Würger, ISBN 978-3-446-25993-5

Stella is a novel by the German journalist and writer Takis Würger , published by Carl Hanser Verlag in January 2019 .

content

The content of the novel is based on a true story, namely the story of Stella Goldschlag . The historical background is the story of Stella Kübler, née Goldschlag. She comes from a middle-class German-Jewish family. To save herself and her family, she denounced Jews in hiding. After the end of the war, a Russian military tribunal sentenced her to ten years in prison.

action

The Swiss first-person narrator Friedrich came to Berlin from Lake Geneva in 1942 . He meets Kristin in an art school. She takes Friedrich to the secret jazz clubs, drinks cognac with him. He lets her kiss him, falls in love, feels safe in the middle of the war. One morning Kristin knocked on his door, injured, with welts on her face: “I didn't tell you the truth.” Her name is Stella, she is Jewish and works as a grabber for the Gestapo .

people

  • Friedrich, a quiet, naive young man
  • Kristin, who turns out to be Stella as the story progresses
  • Tristan von Appen, SS man

reception

Reception upon arrival

The novel received mixed reviews when it was published. The Süddeutsche Zeitung headlined: “A nuisance, an insult, an offense”. Die Zeit wrote: “Abominations in children's book style: Takis Würger writes in 'Stella' about a Jew who becomes an accomplice during the Nazi era. It's a novel full of narrative clichés. "

Other literary critics, however, received the novel positively: The Bonner General-Anzeiger praised the work as an "outstanding novel". Hannah Lühmann asks in Die Welt : “Is this book bad because it entertains?” The critic Philipp Peyman Engel praised the work in the Jüdische Allgemeine as “quiet, credible and yes, also relentless”. In January 2019, NDR named Stella Book of the Month.

The heirs of Stella Goldschlag, who had the post-mortem journalistic personality rights - in this case the heirs of the deceased journalist Ferdinand Kroh , to whom Goldschlag had transferred these rights - asked Hanser-Verlag to blacken passages in the novel or to stop selling the novel, and also called on the Berlin Neukölln Opera to no longer perform a thematically similar musical . However , according to Georg M. Oswald, one of the open legal questions is whether the current heirs are legitimized to assert the post-mortem right of personality to human dignity .

literature

Text output

About Stella Goldschlag

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Takis Würger on "Stella": "Only the readers can give an answer". Münchner Abendzeitung from January 18, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Lothar Müller  : An author has to face the ghosts he calls. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 19, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ Even murderers eat pizza. Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 1, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Stella" by Takis Würger. Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 11, 2019, accessed on February 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Guilty, each in his own way. In: Zeit Online from January 12, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Review - “Stella” tells of a treacherous Jewess. January 11, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hannah Lühmann: “Stella” debate: Is it really so entertaining? January 12, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed March 10, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Philipp Peyman Engel: "An important debate". January 16, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  9. ^ NDR: controversial: “Stella” - Art or Kitsch? Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Micha Brumlik : Who does Stella belong to? In: Zeit Online from January 30, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2019
  11. ↑ a b Wieland Freund : Is “Stella” the new “ Esra ”? Interview with Georg M. Oswald , in: The Literary World , February 2, 2019, p. 31.
  12. ↑ Daniel Alexander Schacht: Personal rights violated? Steps against "Stella" by Takis Würger. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on February 5, 2019.