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Mameleben
or: Stolen Joy
Published by Diogenes as Mameleben
Original Title: Mameleben

Magnificent and infuriating, loving and stifling, self-sacrificing yet interfering – Michel Bergmann loves his mother Charlotte, and sometimes he can’t stand her. In this unvarnished book, he tells the story of a strong, obstinate woman who was driven out of Germany, lost nearly her entire family, and was ultimately happily reunited with her future husband, yet too often had to face her troubles alone.

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256 pages
2023

978-3-257-07225-9

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Daniele Muscionico
Aargauer Zeitung, Aarau

»Hilarious, deeply sad. The fact that Charlotte's fate reads as an example of the shattering of an entire generation makes it important. In view of the war in Ukraine, it is also terribly topical.«

Simone Neidlinger
Aachener Zeitung

»[. . .] a truly exceptional reading pleasure!«

Elke Heidenreich
Der Spiegel, Hamburg

»We laugh and we cry while reading, and we congratulate the author on a marvellous, unforgettable book, written out of pain and love.«

Sabine Doering
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Bergmann writes with so much warmth and wit.«

Lerke von Saalfeld
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

»The author succeeds at telling this grim story with wit, ironic self-reflection and subtle humour, even when his mother acts uninhibitedly and feistily meshugge.«

Hans-Dietrich Grünefeld
Buchkultur, Vienna

»With an artistically daring balance of natural empathy and ironic distance, he contours a psychologically pungent biopic in rhapsodic style.«

Hans Riebsamen
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

»A pure pleasure.«

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