Uwe Wittstock

2 months ago | fabula.org | Uwe Wittstock

Traduit de l’allemand par Olivier MannoniAprès le succès de Février 33, le grand historien allemand Uwe Wittstock  revient avec un nouvel essai passionnant  : Marseille 1940. À partir de la principale ville portuaire en «  zone libre  », il raconte l’invasion de la France par l’Allemagne et les destins brisés de tous les réfugiés qui avaient fui la barbarie nazie outre-Rhin.

Jan 23, 2025 | corriere.it | Uwe Wittstock

Berlino, 15 e 16 luglioÈ un locale un po’ all’antica, lo Hessler. Carta da parati dalle tinte plumbee, lampadari di cristallo, laboriose stuccature ornamentali... L’intera parete di fondo è occupata da un massiccio buffet in legno scuro, di fronte al quale i tavolini della sala si allineano rigidi e precisi, sull’attenti,come se un sergente prussiano avesse comandato l’appello.

Oct 5, 2023 | nybooks.com | Uwe Wittstock |Daniel Bowles |Susan Neiman |Elsa Morante

When the Barbarians Take Over Uwe Wittstock’s new account of writers considering whether to flee or to remain in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power sheds light on the choices faced by many writers in India and Russia today.

Jun 23, 2023 | lithub.com | Uwe Wittstock

These are no tales of heroes. They are stories of people facing extreme peril. Many of them refused to acknowledge the danger, underestimated it, reacted too slowly, in short: they made mistakes. Of course, it is easy for anyone paging through history books today to say such people were fools if they could not comprehend in 1933 what Hitler meant for them. And yet such a notion would be unhistorical.