Violence against women has many faces. During National Socialism, it ranged from the SS-Lebensbornheimen to mass rapes at the end of the war. What survival strategies did the women find, what messages did they pass on to the next generations? A conversation with the writer Ulrike Draesner, who makes the unsaid audible in her novel “Die Verwandten”.
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Antje Weber
Escape, violence, exile – these are the themes that have been on Ulrike Draesner’s mind for a long time. The writer, who was born in Munich in 1962 and lives in Berlin, recently wrote the novels “Sieben Leaps vom Rand der Welt” and “Schwitters”. In her new novel “Die Verwandten” (Penguin) she tells of women from several generations – and not only of suffering, but also of the strength that they oppose the pain.