Erica Fischer Libros

Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. It was love almost at first sight. Aimée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. But their luck didn't last. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported. At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimée and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition. The book, translated into twenty languages, and the film based on it—directed by Max Färberböck, with Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in the leading roles—have made Aimée and Jaguar's story known around the world.

Set in the tumultuous Anglo-Saxon era, the story follows Apsley, a young adopted prince on a quest to discover his true family amidst civil unrest and impending war. As he navigates the challenges of leadership, Apsley strives to unite his fractured country while grappling with his identity and the weight of his responsibilities. The novel explores themes of family, loyalty, and the struggle for peace in a time of conflict.

In July 1940, Erich Fischer found himself in Liverpool being herded onto a British transport ship bound for Australia, along with 2,500 other men. Conditions on board were horrific, with men locked below decks with overflowing latrines and only seawater to clean themselves. Separated from family, friends and removed from any semblance of a normal life, Erich is unsure whether he will ever see wife and child again. Erica Fischer's Over the Ocean tells the extraordinary story of her own parents and at the same time sheds light on a little-known and little-discussed chapter in British history. Fischer's parents met in Austria in the early 1930s. Her mother, Irka, was a Polish Jew and her father, Erich, was a Viennese lapsed Catholic. Faced with growing unrest in Europe, Irka fled to the United Kingdom in 1938, her husband followed a year later. However at the outbreak of war, Erich had been arrested as an 'enemy alien', and having been interned, was deported to the opposite side of the world. Faced with unimaginable hardships, the deportees banded together in solidarity to face their new life in Australia and Erich was, against the odds, able to make contact with Irka and their letters established a lifeline between continents. Over the Ocean is an astonishing true tale dealing with an unexposed and unexplored period in British history but also a story of the resilience of love.

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children - Leo's son drowns when he's 12, while Bill's son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.

Noch nie ist Vergewaltigung so gezielt als Kriegswaffe eingesetzt worden. Noch nie haben Frauen so schnell gehandelt. »Ich wußte, ich würde es schaffen«, sagte Monika Hauser und behielt recht. Mitten im Krieg errichtete sie in Zentralbosnien ein multiethnisches Zentrum zur Behandlung extrem traumatisierter Frauen. Spannend beschreibt Erica Fischer (Autorin von »Aimée und Jaguar«) in ihrem erstmals 1997 erschienenen Buch das historisch einmalige Frauenprojekt vor dem Hintergrund des Krieges in Bosnien.

Wie erlebten Frauen in der DDR die Wende? Arbeiterinnen, Intellektuelle, SED-Funktionärinnen und Feministinnen ziehen Bilanz. Autorinnen – eine Journalistin aus Leipzig und eine in der BRD lebende Österreicherin – haben Interviews geführt, sind durch das Land gereist, haben ihre eigenen Eindrücke festgehalten. Ihr Buch erschien erstmals 1990.