Erica Fischer Livres

Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. It was love almost at first sight. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. But their luck didn't last. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported. At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimée and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition. The book, translated into twenty languages, and the film based on it—directed by Max Färberböck, with Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in the leading roles—have made Aimée and Jaguar's story known around the world.

Set in the tumultuous Anglo-Saxon era, the story follows Apsley, a young adopted prince on a quest to discover his true family amidst civil unrest and impending war. As he navigates the challenges of leadership, Apsley strives to unite his fractured country while grappling with his identity and the weight of his responsibilities. The novel explores themes of family, loyalty, and the struggle for peace in a time of conflict.

In July 1940, Erich Fischer found himself in Liverpool being herded onto a British transport ship bound for Australia, along with 2,500 other men. Conditions on board were horrific, with men locked below decks with overflowing latrines and only seawater to clean themselves. Separated from family, friends and removed from any semblance of a normal life, Erich is unsure whether he will ever see wife and child again. Erica Fischer's Over the Ocean tells the extraordinary story of her own parents and at the same time sheds light on a little-known and little-discussed chapter in British history. Fischer's parents met in Austria in the early 1930s. Her mother, Irka, was a Polish Jew and her father, Erich, was a Viennese lapsed Catholic. Faced with growing unrest in Europe, Irka fled to the United Kingdom in 1938, her husband followed a year later. However at the outbreak of war, Erich had been arrested as an 'enemy alien', and having been interned, was deported to the opposite side of the world. Faced with unimaginable hardships, the deportees banded together in solidarity to face their new life in Australia and Erich was, against the odds, able to make contact with Irka and their letters established a lifeline between continents. Over the Ocean is an astonishing true tale dealing with an unexposed and unexplored period in British history but also a story of the resilience of love.

Au milieu des années 1970, à New York, deux couples d'artistes ont partagé les rêves de liberté de l'époque. De l'art et de la création, ils ont fait le ciment d'une amitié qu'ils voulaient éternelle et, quand ils ont fondé leur famille, se sont installés dans des appartements voisins. Rien n'a pu les préparer aux coups dont le destin va les frapper et qui vont infléchir radicalement le cours de leurs vies... Siri Hustvedt convie ici à un voyage à travers les régions inquiétantes de l'âme : bouleversant, ambigu, vertigineux, Tout ce que j'aimais est le roman d'une génération coupable d'innocence qui se retrouve, vingt ans plus tard, au bout de son beau rêve.

Noch nie ist Vergewaltigung so gezielt als Kriegswaffe eingesetzt worden. Noch nie haben Frauen so schnell gehandelt. »Ich wußte, ich würde es schaffen«, sagte Monika Hauser und behielt recht. Mitten im Krieg errichtete sie in Zentralbosnien ein multiethnisches Zentrum zur Behandlung extrem traumatisierter Frauen. Spannend beschreibt Erica Fischer (Autorin von »Aimée und Jaguar«) in ihrem erstmals 1997 erschienenen Buch das historisch einmalige Frauenprojekt vor dem Hintergrund des Krieges in Bosnien.