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Charles Lewinsky

Gerron

Published by Diogenes as Gerron

Original Title: Gerron

The actor and director Kurt Gerron was once a star - and now he's just one amongst many concentration camp inmates. In Theresienstadt, he has to prove his proficiency one more time, by staging the existence there as happy Jewish life. Gerron sees himself faced with a momentous decision.

Contemporary Literature
704 pages
2021

978-3-257-24591-2

Charles

Lewinsky

Charles Lewinsky, born in Zurich in 1946, has been a freelance writer since 1980. He won international renown with his novel Melnitz, which was awarded numerous prizes, including the French ›Prix du meilleur livre étranger‹. His novel Halfbeard was nominated for both the ›Swiss Book Prize‹ and the ›German Book Prize‹. His works have been published in 16 languages. Charles Lewinsky lives in Vereux (France) in summer, and in Zurich in winter.

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Ilja Richter
Die Welt, Berlin

»Masterfully told by Charles Lewinsky, as though he himself were Kurt Gerron, that comic of banality who finds himself before the abyss, then surpasses himself.«

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