Two women (Hellmann)
Two women is the first novel by German author Diana Beate Hellmann , published in 1989 . The novel is based on Hellmann's own experiences.
action
"Zwei Frauen" tells the story of eighteen-year-old ballet dancer Eva Martin, who sacrificed childhood and youth to the dream of becoming a prima ballerina. When she fell ill with cancer in March 1976, her entire worldview threatened to collapse. At the cancer ward she meets her fellow sufferer Claudia Jacoby, and a friendship of unusual depth develops between the women. Eva spends months in the clinic and undergoes stressful chemotherapy . Fellow patients die during their stay, and Claudia's condition worsens. In July 1977, Claudia, with Eva's help, committed suicide, while Eva had successfully completed chemotherapy by this time. The subsequent radiation therapybrings Eva to the limits of her physical capacity. The irradiation is also successful, so that Eva can be operated on. After the operation there was another radiation cycle and in May 1978, after 26 months in hospital, Eva Martin was discharged cured.
filming
The book was made into a film in the same year by Carl Schenkel , who wrote the script in collaboration with Bea Hellmann. Jami Gertz played the main roles as Eva and Martha Plimpton , who took on the role of Claudia . The supporting roles include George Peppard and Rip Torn . Although the book is set in Germany, the action in the film has been moved to the United States. The American title of the film was Silence Like Glass . In 1990, the film was nominated for the German Film Prize in the “Best Feature Film” category.
expenditure
- Two women ; Bastei Lübbe Verlag , 42nd edition, 608 p .; 2008; ISBN 978-3-404-11478-8
Web links
- Two women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author profile on luebbe.de, accessed on May 2, 2011.
- ^ "Downward" director: Carl Schenkel died in the USA , article from December 4, 2003 in Der Spiegel magazine , accessed on May 2, 2011.