Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another, embarked on an ecstatic affair, exchanging...
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In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another, embarked on an ecstatic affair, exchanging letters and poems and even signing a marriage contract. After only a year, their happiness was destroyed by the Gestapo: Felice was taken away to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Lilly received a last letter from Felice in 1945. Erica Fisher has documented this extraordinary story after spending countless hours talking to 80-year-old Lilly, and to friends and acquaintances of the two women. Her account, together with a collection of photographs, is a witness to an unusual love in a time of extremes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747526704 (0747526702)
Publish date: October 24th 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 274
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
World War II,
German Literature,
Womens,
Glbt,
Queer,
Holocaust,
Lesbian
Homosexualität war im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland strafbar. Im Dritten Reich betrachtete man schwule Männer als entartet und als eine Bedrohung für den Staat, da man fürchtete, sie versuchten, interne Strukturen zu unterwandern und diese von innen heraus zu zerstören. Seit 1934 wurden Homose...
I wanted to like this book more than I did because, well, lesbianism and WW II - two topics I seem unable to get enough of. Maybe it's the translation. I read this almost ten years ago and the overall impression is one of a slow-moving story with not nearly the depth I appreciate in a good story, tr...