Summer of Dead Dreams

Book by Harry Thürk
9783898122412

Summer of Dead Dreams (German: Sommer der toten Träume)[1] is a novel by German writer Harry Thürk, published in 1993[2] by Mitteldeutscher Verlag.[3] It is an autobiography with fictional elements.[4][5][6]

The book was translated to English, Polish (by Marcin Domino and Anna Myszyńska),[4][7] Czech (by Miroslava Mamulová),[8] Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Vietnamese, Spanish and Finnish.[9]

Małgorzata Jurczak was planning a film adaptation of the book, but it was delayed due to a lack of money.[10]

The characters presented in the book are fictional, but the story is inspired by author's real experiences.[11]

Plot summary

The novel tells about three Germans: Oswald Hirschke, Jakob Latta and Schliebitz and a Romani woman called Alina.[12] The story takes place in the summer of 1945 in Prudnik, shortly after the end of World War II.[13] The main characters live in a ghetto on Chrobrego and Królowej Jadwigi Street,[4] created by the Red Army in April 1945 after the end of the Battle of Prudnik.[14] They are being used by Poles that came to Prudnik after the war and Russian soldiers.[5] They are trying to escape to East Germany.

References

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  2. ^ "Tygodnik Prudnicki - Artykuły Tygodnika". www.tygodnikprudnicki.pl. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  3. ^ "Harry Thürk: "Sommer der toten Träume", 1993". www.harrythuerk.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  4. ^ a b c Redakcja (2002-10-25). "Prudnickie getto". Opole Nasze Miasto (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  5. ^ a b "Niechęć czy zaniedbanie? | Wochenblatt" (in Polish). 4 July 2017. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  6. ^ "Kierownik biblioteki w Prudniku straciła stanowisko. Finał sprawy likwidacji księgozbioru Harry". 6 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Ukazało się "Lato Umarłych Snów"!". Prudnik24 (in Polish). 2015-01-30. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  8. ^ "PROJEKT NA FINISZU - Aktualności - Starostwo Powiatowe w Prudniku". powiatprudnicki.pl. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  9. ^ "Werke Harry Thürks / Romane / "Sommer der toten Träume" / Veröffentlichung im Tygodnik Prudnicki". www.harrythuerk.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  10. ^ "Tygodnik Prudnicki - Artykuły Tygodnika". www.tygodnikprudnicki.pl. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  11. ^ Strauchmann, fot Krzysztof (2007-08-18). "Harry Thürk - niemiecki pisarz z Białej". Nowa Trybuna Opolska (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  12. ^ "Harry Thürk: "Sommer der toten Träume", 1993". www.harrythuerk.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  13. ^ "Opisał tragiczną prawdę o powojennym Prudniku". 10 April 2015.
  14. ^ "Zajęcie Prudnika w 1945 roku przez Armię Czerwoną. Regiopedia, Opolskie, encyklopedia regionów". 2018-04-12. Archived from the original on 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2020-02-18.