Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Menschen neben dem Leben.
Il viaggiatore
Summary
Otto Silbermann sta negoziando con un conoscente la vendita del suo elegante appartamento di Berlino quando alla porta di casa risuona un colpo secco seguito da un ordine: "Apri, ebreo" intima una voce. È il 10 novembre 1938, il giorno dopo la Notte dei Cristalli: i pogrom organizzati dal regime nazionalsocialista sono iniziati e Silbermann, ricco e stimato commerciante ebreo tedesco, sguscia fuori dalla porta di servizio, incontrando il suo destino di fuggiasco. "Berlino - Amburgo, pensò. Amburgo - Berlino. Berlino - Dortmund. Dortmund - Aquisgrana. Aquisgrana - Dortmund. E forse sarà sempre così. Adesso sono un viaggiatore. In realtà sono già emigrato, sono emigrato nelle ferrovie del Reich." Succede proprio questo, Silbermann trascorre una settimana intera sui treni, sa di essere in trappola, ma non gli è possibile fermarsi o smettere di cercare un riparo. Esule in patria, uomo sopraffatto, emblema di tutte le anime rifiutate costrette a soccombere al meccanismo della paura, ora è nient'altro che un "insulto con due gambe". "Il viaggiatore" è il quadro, realizzato con drammatica lucidità, delle conseguenze della Kristallnacht, il romanzo di un giovanissimo scrittore - Ulrich Boschwitz aveva poco più di vent'anni - che ebbe il dono tragico della preveggenza e descrisse in presa diretta il crollo di ogni legge di umana convivenza. Prima di ogni letteratura sull'Olocausto e prima ancora di ogni Diario, questa è la prima testimonianza letteraria sull'inizio della catastrofe europea del Novecento.
©2019 Rizzoli (P)2019 Rizzoli
Der Reisende
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Berlin, 1938: Der Kaufmann Otto Silbermann findet sich nach den Novemberpogromen und seiner Flucht aus Berlin als rastloser Reisender in den Zügen der Deutschen Reichsbahn wieder. Verwandte und Freunde sind verhaftet oder verschwunden. Was ihm noch bleibt, ist eine Aktentasche voller Geld. In den Waggons, auf Bahnsteigen und in Bahnhofsrestaurants, auf seinen Fahrten quer durchs Land trifft er auf andere Reisende, Flüchtlinge und Nazis, auf gute wie schlechte Menschen. Noch nie hat man mit so unmittelbarer Wucht nachempfinden können, wie lebensverändernd die Novemberpogrome für jeden einzelnen Menschen in Deutschland waren.
©2018 Klett-Cotta (P)2018 DAV
The Passenger
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Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, The Passenger is a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany. Written on the eve of World War II, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz's story captures one of the darkest moments in human history - and creates a lasting legacy for a talented author whose life ended tragically all too soon. Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another...until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. His travels bring him face-to-face with waiters and conductors, officials and fellow outcasts, seductive women and vicious thieves, a few of whom disapprove of the regime while the rest embrace it wholeheartedly. Clinging to his existence as it was just days before, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists, betrayed by associates, and bereft of family, friends, and fortune. As his world collapses around him, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms - the "Crystal Night" attacks by Nazis against the Jews of Germany, so named for the shattered glass covering the streets - and his prose flies at the same pace. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, his novel is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books
©2021 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
Menschen neben dem Leben
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Berlin in den 1920ern. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz porträtiert die kleinen Leute, die nach Krieg und Weltwirtschaftskrise nichts mehr zu lachen haben und dennoch nicht aufhören, das Leben zu feiern: Fundholz, Grissmann und ihre Freunde. Abends zieht es sie alle in den "Fröhlichen Waidmann". Sie treibt die Sehnsucht nach ein paar sorglosen Stunden, bevor der Alltag sie wieder einholt. Doch dann tanzt Grissmann auf einmal mit der falschen Frau. Und das Verhängnis nimmt seinen Lauf, bis sich neue Liebschaften gefunden haben, genügend Bier und Pfefferminzschnaps ausgeschenkt wurde und der nächste Morgen graut.
©2019 Klett-Cotta (P)2019 DAV