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Stefanie Zweig

3.6/5 ( ratings)
Born
September 18 1932
Died
2424 04 20142014
Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika , based on her early life in Kenya, which was filmed and won an Oscar in 2002 for "Best Foreign Film".[1] Her family, being Jewish, fled Nazi Germany, for Africa. They went from an urban life in Breslau to a farm in Kenya in 1938 when she was five. She attended an English boarding school while there.[2] In 1941, the family received a postcard from her grandmother saying "We are very excited, we are going to Poland tomorrow", which implied Auschwitz. Zweig has returned to Kenya twice since leaving in 1947 at the age of 15. She found the farm had been destroyed.

Her teenage years in Germany were recounted in the autobiographical novel Irgendwo in Deutschland . Her father was given work as a judge in post-World War II West Germany, partly because there was no need to "denazify" him.

Her first African novel was Ein Mund voll Erde in 1980. It won several awards, and describes an infatuation with a Kĩkũyũ boy.

She had a long career as an arts editor on a Frankfurt tabloid. In later life, she began writing children's literature and then began her novels. Although she is a best-selling author in German, she is not well known in the English-speaking world, except for Nowhere in Africa.

Stefanie Zweig

3.6/5 ( ratings)
Born
September 18 1932
Died
2424 04 20142014
Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika , based on her early life in Kenya, which was filmed and won an Oscar in 2002 for "Best Foreign Film".[1] Her family, being Jewish, fled Nazi Germany, for Africa. They went from an urban life in Breslau to a farm in Kenya in 1938 when she was five. She attended an English boarding school while there.[2] In 1941, the family received a postcard from her grandmother saying "We are very excited, we are going to Poland tomorrow", which implied Auschwitz. Zweig has returned to Kenya twice since leaving in 1947 at the age of 15. She found the farm had been destroyed.

Her teenage years in Germany were recounted in the autobiographical novel Irgendwo in Deutschland . Her father was given work as a judge in post-World War II West Germany, partly because there was no need to "denazify" him.

Her first African novel was Ein Mund voll Erde in 1980. It won several awards, and describes an infatuation with a Kĩkũyũ boy.

She had a long career as an arts editor on a Frankfurt tabloid. In later life, she began writing children's literature and then began her novels. Although she is a best-selling author in German, she is not well known in the English-speaking world, except for Nowhere in Africa.

Books from Stefanie Zweig

Das Haus in der Rothschildallee

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Die Kinder Der Rothschildallee

4/5 ( ratings)

Neubeginn in der Rothschildallee

4/5 ( ratings)

Irgendwo in Deutschland

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Doch die Träume blieben in Afrika

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Ergens in Duitsland

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Irgendwo in Deutschland

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Irgendwo in Deutschland

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Somewhere in Germany

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Owuors Heimkehr

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Katze fürs Leben

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Nur die Liebe bleibt

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Alle verhalen over de Rothschildstraat

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Corazon kikuyu / Kikuyu Heart (Alandar)

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Am Sonntag kommt das Enkelkind: und andere Einblicke in meine Welt (German Edition)

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Somewhere in Germany

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Es begann damals in Afrika

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Nos rêves d'Afrique

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Maria Antonieta

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Schrecken der Tiefe / Ein Mundvoll Erde / Schwarze Geschäfte / Verhängnisvolle Ferien

3.4/5 ( ratings)
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