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A Citizen of All Times: The Schönaus: A German Family 1913 - 1933

The story of a German family in the most turbulent time of the last century.Volume 1:While Charlotte plans her eightieth birthday and follows the demonstrations and upheavals in East Germany, she thinks back to her childhood and youth in Leipzig, where she was born in 1909 and grew up with two siblings. Their sheltered childhood is shaken by World War I, revolution and a completely changed world. During the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, in a politically unstable time, the three Schönau children take their first steps into adult life. While Charlotte's sister Dorchen enjoys the liberal cultural life in Berlin, her brother Heinrich is drawn to the wrong circles. Charlotte herself experiences the versatility of being a university student and suffers the first painful loss of her life.Read more

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