The Jewish girl Annelies Marie Frank was a diarist Anne Frank is world famous. 90. Birthday of Holocaust victim’s novel version of their records appears as an independent work.
With a little more luck and less of human wickedness, you would have experienced this day maybe. Ninety years old you would be then on 12. June become. Maybe she would have been celebrated in the circle of their descendants, in Amsterdam, Frankfurt or anywhere in the USA, and it would not have been impossible, that “Peter” would have even heard of the well-wishers. Of those, Peter, who shared with Anne Frank, the hiding place in Amsterdam behind the house and they exchanged the first kiss. But it is not unlikely that we would experience reader never of this anniversary.
Young Dead stay young forever, and so it is with Anne Frank. You will always be the 15-year-old girl who looked in her diary the replacement for a friend and conversation partner. Had a great desire: she wanted to live as a writer. “After the war, I definitely want a book with the title ‘behind the house’ to bring out,” wrote Anne on 11. May 1944 in her diary. Less than three months later, she was deported zusammenau with the other seven Hidden. She died in February 1945 in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, of typhus fever, exhaustion, and malnutrition.
Anne Frank led her diary in Dutch
“The back of the house” – first version of a world classic
Her diary remained intact and became one of the best-known and most widely read books in the world. Otto Frank, Anne’s beloved father, was left the only one from the family to the concentration camp alive, fulfilled their legacy and edited the full-written in red-beige diary and many loose sheets, records on the back of invoices or in the books of account. Two years after the end of the war, on 25. June 1947, appeared in “Het Achterhuis – The back house”. The first edition of 1500 books was quickly sold out.
Meanwhile, Anne Frank’s “diary” belongs in Germany to the essential school reading. The well-known paperback edition of the Fischer publishing house can be found in many German households. Mirjam Pressler, who in January 2019 deceased great Translator and author, has developed this collection in cooperation with Otto Frank. Without the omissions made by Anne Frank’s father in his first issue of discretion, sections that relate to Anne Frank’s mother and Anne’s thoughts on sexuality.
Only in 1986 in Dutch, in English in 1988, it was published in full, historically-critically edited Text. Since the diary of Anne Frank had become “” a Hollywood film in the 1950s, other films and plays, in many languages long since become a world classic.
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Who Anne Frank was?On the run from the Nazis
In 1933, Anne Frank fled with her family from the Nazis from Germany to the Netherlands. In the Second world war, you have to dive under to escape the Nazis. They live for two years, hidden in a back house in Amsterdam – until they are betrayed: On 4. August 1944, discovered Anne Frank and her family arrested and deported to Auschwitz.
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Who Anne Frank was?Family ties
Anne Frank (front left) had a three and a half years older sister named Margot (back right). Her father, Otto Frank, took this photo on the eighth anniversary of Margot in February 1934. Anne was then four years old, and the family already in exile in the Netherlands.
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Who Anne Frank was?Hiding place in Amsterdam
Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was able to take in Amsterdam, the subsidiary of the company, Opekta. As the persecution of the Jews begins, the father in the back of the house, the office a hideout. The family of four lived there from 1942 to 1944, together with four further Pursued. Here Anne Frank wrote her world famous diary. Since 1960, the Anne Frank house (photo) is a Museum.
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Who Anne Frank was?Anne’s Hiding Place
In the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, and visitors can see the behind the house where Anne hid with her family. For months the young girl had. her tight rooms with the Jewish dentist Fritz Pfeffer to share, and she called his name in her diary, “Albert Dussel” To the right of her Desk, where she wrote almost every day.
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Who Anne Frank was?Diary as a best friend
From the beginning, Anne writes almost every day in her diary. It is for you to be a kind of girlfriend that gives you the name of Kitty. The life of Anne in hiding, is completely different than the carefree time before that: “like The best me that I can, what I think and feel, write it down at least, otherwise I would choke completely”, is there to read.
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Who Anne Frank was?Death in Bergen-Belsen
Anne Frank and her sister Margot are at 30. October 1944 from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen brought. In this concentration camp, more than 70,000 people in total lost their lives. After the liberation of the concentration Camps under the supervision of British soldiers brought the victims from the truck to the mass graves. Here, Anne and Margot Frank died of Typhus. Anne was only 15 years old.
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Who Anne Frank was?Anne’s Grave Stone
In Bergen-Belsen, the gravestone of Anne is. The Jewish girl from Frankfurt am Main had imagined her life differently: “I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to bring the people who live around me and me not know the joy and Benefit of. I want to continue to live even after my death” – this is her diary entry of 5 is. April 1944.
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Who Anne Frank was?Made famous by a diary
Anne’s dream was to be a journalist or a writer. Thanks to her father, her diary appears on the 25. June 1947. The Title: “The Back Of The House.” There are many other editions and Translations follow. Anne Frank is a symbolic figure for the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. “We all live with the objective, to be happy, we all live different and yet the same.” (Anne Frank, 6. July 1944)
“Love Kitty” is a best-seller
Currently, Anne Frank’s records are about their lives in the rear house hideout at the top of the Independent bestseller list, which takes into account the publications from 160 independent publishers. It’s been twenty years, the last five previously unknown sites were discovered and the book added. So what could be new and the current success of the classic to justify?
In March 1944 the Dutch Minister of education Gerrit Bolkestein about the illegal BBC Radio station “Radio Oranje, called on” the population in the occupied Fatherland, and letters and diaries. “Imagine how interesting it would be if I would bring out a novel about behind the house”, directed Anne to your imaginary diary girlfriend Kitty. After that, you must have obsessively written. Up to that fateful 4. In August 1944, as the police action in the Prinsengracht 263 was the life in hiding, he had written to 215 sheets to create on the Basis of their diary entries, a first for the publication of the novel version.
The result is not a copy, but a rigorous and self-critical Revision of its in the form of a letter formulated observations and thoughts as submerged was. This manuscript formed, together with the other Original documents, the diary and the loose-leaf collection, the basis for all later editions.
The movable bookcase was the entrance to the hideout in the back of the house
Fragment of the novel with depth
That it is now, just before the 90. Anniversary, for the first Time as a stand-alone novel and a new Translation was published, is a tribute to the promising literary Talent of Anne Frank. “I never knew my little Anne was so deep”, said Otto Frank for years after her death. Their diary entries include life 779 days, 753 of them in the hiding place of the room behind a filing Cabinet in the office building of her father. “Dear Kitty”, so the title of this novel-Edition, includes the time from 12. June 1942 to 29. In March 1944, more Anne Frank did not come up with their recast.
Compared with the original diary-and as far as this is received, the literary expertise of the fifteen-year-old. “You letting off some of the entries, in whole, revised others, and added new descriptions, insights, and connecting thoughts to create a highly interesting, highly readable Text,” writes the literary scholar Laureen Nussbaum in her afterword. As a friend of the family and Anne Frank, a researcher in Seattle has been waiting for, as she says, 25 years on such an issue.
Laureen Nussbaum: literary scholar and Anne Frank researcher
Assessment as a writer
“This is the big question, will I ever be able to write something Great, will I ever be a journalist and a writer? I hope it is, I hope it so much!” Anne Frank’s wish that her diary at 5. April 1944, entrusted to, is gone with this revision, the given as a young writer application, final fulfillment.
Anne Frank: “Dear Kitty. Your novel draft in letters”, translated by Waltraud Hüsmert, Secession, the publishing house for literature, Zurich, 2019, 208 pages