Anna Seghers

Anna Seghers, real name Anna (Netty) Reiling   was born in Mainz, Germany, on 19 November 1900. She was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname of the Dutch painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers. Seghers was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature by the German Academy of Arts. In 1981, she became honorary citizen of her native town Mainz. She died in Berlin on 1 June 1983. 


Anna Seghers (1900-1983)






TRANSIT (1944)




DER AUSFLUG DER TOTEN MADCHEN (1946)




DER KOPFLOHN (1933)




CROSSING : A LOVE STORY

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