Stefanie Zweig has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Nowhere in Africa.
Nirgendwo in Afrika
Summary
Der Bestseller der preisgekrönten Autorin. Ein bewegendes Stück Zeitgeschichte und eine Liebeserklärung an Afrika. Dieser autobiografische Roman schildert in unvergleichlicher Sprache die Odyssee von Walter, Jettel und Regina, die sich 1938 auf den Weg machen von Breslau nach Ostafrika, die ihre Heimat verlieren, eine neue gewinnen und doch zurück wollen.Stefanie Zweig erzählt die Geschichte Reginas, die sehr schnell dem Zauber Afrikas verfällt. Sie liebt die Gerüche und Farben, die überwältigende Natur, die Tiere und Menschen, die zu Freunden werden. Doch nach Kriegsende will ihr Vater zurück nach Deutschland. Über die Sprecherin: Franziska Pigulla arbeitete als Schauspielerin an den Staatlichen Schauspielbühnen Berlin, wirkt bei Kino- und Filmproduktionen mit und ist Redakteurin und Sprecherin bei vielen TV-Sendern. Als Synchronsprecherin lieh sie u.a. Demi Moore, Gillian Anderson, Sharon Stone und Lena Olin ihre Stimme.
(c) 2003 Langen Müller Audio-Books
Somewhere in Germany
Summary
Somewhere in Germany is the sequel to the acclaimed Nowhere in Africa, which was turned into the Oscar-winning film of the same name. This novel traces the return of the Redlich family to Germany after their nine-year exile in Kenya during World War II. In Africa, Walter had longed for his homeland and dreamed of rebuilding his life as a lawyer, yet ultimately he and his family - wife Jettel, daughter Regina, and baby Max - realize that Germany seems as exotic and unwelcoming to them in 1947 as Kenya had seemed in 1938. Hunger and desperation are omnipresent in bombed-out Frankfurt, and this Jewish family - especially Regina, who misses Africa the most - has a hard time adjusting to their new circumstances. Yet slowly the family adapts to their new home amidst the ruins. In Frankfurt, Regina matures into a woman and, though her parents want her to marry an upstanding Jewish man, her love life progresses in its own idiosyncratic fashion. She develops a passion for art and journalism and begins her professional career at a Frankfurt newspaper. Walter at last finds professional success as a lawyer, but never quite adjusts to life in Frankfurt, recalling with nostalgia his childhood in Upper Silesia and his years in Africa. Only his son Max truly finds what Walter had hoped for: A new homeland in Germany. Although the Redlichs receive kindness from strangers, they also learn anti-Semitism still prevails in post-Nazi Germany. They partake in the West German "economic miracle" with their own home, a second-hand car, and the discovery of television, but young Max's discovery of the Holocaust revives long-buried memories. Rich in memorable moments and characters, this novel portrays the reality of postwar German society in vivid and candid detail.
©2006 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Nowhere in Africa
Summary
Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter, Regina, each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country - learning the local language and customs, and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's cook. As the war rages on the other side of the world, the family’s relationships with their strange environment become increasingly complicated as Jettel grows more self-assured and Walter more haunted by the life they left behind. In 1946, with the war over, Regina's fondest dream comes true when her brother Max is born. Walter's decision, however, to return to his homeland to help rebuild a new Germany puts his family into turmoil again.
©2004 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (P)2014 Audible Inc.