Anna Seghers, Überfahrt: Eine Liebesgeschichte [The Crossing: A Love Story]

Kristy Boney (Central Missouri State University)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1971

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Anna Seghers’ novel Überfahrt. Eine Liebesgeschichte [Crossing: A Love Story, 1971] chronicles the life story of Ernst Triebel. Triebel left Germany for Brazil with his mother and father shortly before the so-called “Kristallnacht” (Night of the Long Knives), when the Nazis destroyed many Jewish shops, homes, and synagogues, and organized a brutal pogrom against Jews on 9 November 1938. He returned to East Germany with his father in 1946 where he studied internal medicine, a career that has situated him in the present narrative context of leaving Germany for a conference in Bahia and returning to Rostock by ship.

The title labels the book as a love story, and …

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Citation: Boney, Kristy. "Überfahrt: Eine Liebesgeschichte". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 August 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19322, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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