Meike Ziervogel Bücher

Der hochgelobte Roman über Magda Goebbels nun erstmals in deutscher Sprache: Meike Ziervogel ist ein eindrucksvolles Porträt der Frau von Hitlers Propagandaminister Joseph Goebbels gelungen. In nüchterner Sprache wird der Lebensweg eines ungeliebten Kindes zu einer ehrgeizigen Frau und deren Stilisierung zur Vorzeigemutter des Dritten Reiches beschrieben. Gleichzeitig erzählt Magda die Geschichte dreier weiblicher Generationen – neben Magda Goebbels kommt auch ihre Mutter zu Wort, sowie ihre älteste Tochter, die in ihren letzten Lebenstagen eine schreckliche Vorahnung ereilt.

A master of suspenseful storytelling, Meike Ziervogel's new novel testifies to our belief that humanity can thrive against all odds.Set at the end of the Second World War when 11 million Germans fled from east to west, The Photographer is a compelling and life-affirming exploration of love and survival in times of mass migration.Albert is a young photographer who dreams of making his mark in the magazines of Berlin and Paris. When he falls for Trude his happiness appears complete. Then the war breaks out. While Albert is sent to the front, Trude and their son Peter have to flee from the advancing Russian army. Eventually they are reunited. But do Albert and Trude have the strength to start their relationship anew?In a Europe of ruined cities and refugee camps, the family learns to respect each other's flaws and, in doing so, discovers their own personal strengths.

Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. She has a high-powered job, a family, a husband, yet she is defined by a term of possession: she is ‘Clara’s daughter’. Nameless. When Michele moves her mother into the basement, her husband slams the door and disappears into the night. Michele increasingly hides away upstairs, as Clara weaves her conspiracies beneath.Clara’s Daughter begins in terraced houses and city parks of North London but develops, through sharp-edged monologues and surreal visions, into a primeval stand-off between mother and daughter. Eventually, Clara – the controlling matriarch – finds a way to release her daughter. But can Michele release herself?Meike Ziervogel is a master of suspenseful storytelling. In Clara’s clandestine power games and Michele’s increasingly fraught dealings with both her mother and her own highly-strung sister, Hilary, there emerges a chilling, yet poignant family tableau. Devastating in its psychological insights, Clara’s Daughter reveals unnerving truths about relationship anxieties on many levels, which emerge not only from Ziervogel’s elegant, succinct descriptions, but build steadily from the tense, silent spaces between the unfolding of main events. A divinely-crafted, almost cinematic novella, Clara’s Daughter is at once startling, moving and intensely enduring.

Magda is born at the beginning of the 20th century, the illegitimate child of a maidservant who feels burdened with a daughter she does not want. The girl grows up to become an ambitious woman, desperate for love and recognition. When Magda meets Joseph Goebbels, he appears to answer all her needs, and together they have six children. Towards the end of the Second World War, Magda has become physically and emotionally sick. As she takes her children into the Führer's bunker, her eldest daughter Helga experiences an overwhelming sense of foreboding.

Trine and her mother live on the German coast. The mudflats that surround them disappear and reappear with the North Sea tides. Anna roams the beaches collecting flotsam and jetsam to make art, Trine loves playing on a war-time shipwreck. That is, until Trine's brother appears.