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Ruth Rehmann was born in Siegburg near Bonn in 1922, and studied music and the violin at the academies in Berlin and Cologne. Her previous publications with Hanser are: Der Mann auf der Kanzel (1979), Die Schwaigerin (1987), Fremd in Cambridge (1999), and the travelogue Unterwegs in fremden Träumen (1993).
It is the late 1940s and the war has recently ended. Madeleine, a young woman, has like so many others lost everything, including her family and her homeland. Her dream of making a new start ...
2010 Rosenheimer Literaturpreis
2010 Pro meretis scientiae et litterarum
2004 Oberbayrischer Kulturpreis
1989 Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises im Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie
1972 Georg-Mackensen-Literaturpreis
1962 Förderpreis der Stadt Hannover