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“Dear Kitty” Anne Frank’s Novel Fragment

The Jewish girl Annelies Marie Frank was a diarist Anne Frank is world famous. This year, they would have turned 90. However, at the 4. In August 1944, she and her family by the Nazis, discovered and arrested.



With a little more luck and less of human wickedness, you would have experienced this day maybe: 90-year-old Anne Frank would be on the 12. June become – would you and your family had not been betrayed. On 4. August 1944, exactly 75 years ago, stormed the Nazis had lived behind the house in Amsterdam where the Franks hid for two years. They were arrested and deported to Auschwitz.

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 together with the other seven Hidden. She died in February 1945 in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, of typhus fever, exhaustion, and malnutrition.

“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.

Anne Frank led her diary in Dutch

Only in 1986 in Dutch, in English in 1988, appeared the full, historically-critically edited Text. Mirjam Pressler, who in January 2019 deceased great Translator and writer, has edited learning this version on the Basis of the Otto Frank edited versions together with other science. 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.

At the time, the diary of Anne Frank “became” a Hollywood film in the 1950s, other films and plays, in many languages long since become a world classic. Meanwhile, Anne Frank’s diary “in Germany is one of” the essential school reading. The well-known paperback edition of the Fischer publishing house can be found in many German households.

“Love Kitty” is a best-seller

Currently, Anne Frank’s record of her life in the stand behind the house hiding at the top of the Independent bestseller list, which takes into account the publications from 160 independent publishers. This is it, apart from a couple of notes on two glued together sheets, already 20 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

It was published this year for the first Time as a stand-alone novel in a new Translation, 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 just 15-Year-olds. “You letting off some of the entries, in whole, revised others, and added new descriptions, insights, and connecting thoughts and creating an 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 with the revision this year, giving him / her as a young writer application, finally came true.

Anne Frank: “Dear Kitty. Your novel draft in letters”, translated by Waltraud Hüsmert, Secession, the publishing house for literature, Zurich, 2019, 208 pages

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