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Hamburg / Penzberg (dpa) - The Hamburg writer Kirsten Boie (70, “We children from the Möwenweg”, “The little knight Trenk”) has a dark chapter of the Upper Bavarian city of Penzberg from the last days of the Second World War at the center of her new one Youth book.
In "Dunkelnacht" she describes the cruel Penzberg murder night from the perspective of three young people, in which 16 people are killed by some fanatical Hitler supporters, even though the American soldiers and thus the long-awaited peace are already outside the gates of the small town south of Munich stand.
The 70-year-old needed that Boie poured this hard material into a novel.
«We have seen for decades that the subject of National Socialism and everything related to it become completely uninteresting for young people.
That they feel annoyed and, unfortunately, that they also admire a lot of aspects.
I think it's a somewhat frightening situation, ”said Boie of the German Press Agency in Hamburg.
With the novella about fanatical supporters and fear, reason and contempt as well as humanity and mass murder, Boie wants to show the young readers above all that in the end it could affect anyone - regardless of religion, gender, sexual inclination, origin and political attitude.
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Penzberg's Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) thinks it is good that Boie deals with the “very important and gloomy chapter” in the city's history.
"In my opinion, this book can help to interest a new generation in the history of Penzberg and to work for a defensive democracy."
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Information from Oetinger Verlag about Kirsten Boie
Information about the book "Dark Night"