Władysław Szpilman Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

The 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman's son, Andrzej On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn’t hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written in the immediate aftermath of the war, The Pianist conveys a shattering immediacy found in few books about that time and stands as a stunning testament to human endurance and healing through compassion. This edition includes a foreword by Andrzej Szpilman, extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld, and an epilogue by Wolf Biermann.

Szpilman liefert ein grauenhaftes realistisches Sittengemälde des WARSCHAUER Gettos, beschreibt das mörderische Kommen und das massenmörderische Gehen der deutschen Okkupanten. Und die Leser begreifen: Dieser Mensch da verdankt das Wunder seines Überlebens im Grunde nur ... der Musik. Ein verschollenes Buch, gleich 1945 authentisch geschrieben und dennoch mit melancholischer Ironie. Erschütternd? - ja! Aber auch ermutigend.