Historical denials, crises, different culture clashes, future anxieties – fuel for our daily news. Ralph Giordano documents why despite all this he hasn’t become a cynic, and why he has kept his humour.
This thematic anthology combines Ralph Giordano’s discourses and writings on Germany between 1999 and 2011.
Even in the ninth decade of his life, Germany’s first admonisher has not lost one iota of his observation prowess, his sensitivity, and his historical and political analytical skills. As in his world-wide success ‘Die Bertinis’, his bestsellers about German history and his inimitable literary travelogues, Ralph Giordano once again proves himself as a master of language. In his very individual style he creates big and small authorial works of art. Despite all the different questions for which he seeks to find answers, his ultimate worries are still about his two homelands; Germany, where despite the perse-cution in the Third Reich, he feels inextricably belonging to, and Israel, the homeland of the persecuted Jews, whose right of existence he defends tooth and nail.
