Der Bastian

by Barbara Noack

Bastian, Student der Pädagogik, verfügt über weit mehr Charme und Humor als über Ernsthaftigkeit und Karrierebewußtsein. Er sträubt sich dagegen, seine Zukunft zu planen, und möchte den Sommer nach seinem Examen noch einmal in spielerischer Sorglosigkeit vertrödeln. Da trifft er auf die junge Ärztin Katharina, die bereits voll im Leben steht und mit ihrer Liebe zu Bastian den Traum vom unbeschwerten, romantischen Glück nachholen will. Doch das Ganze ist nur ein Sommertraum, der schon bald zu Ende gehen wird.

Genres: German Literature

309 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Barbara Noack was a German novelist and author of screenplays for television series.

In 1944 she had to give up her studies after just one semester because she was conscripted to work in an ammunition factory. After the end of the Second World War, she studied for two semesters at a Berlin art school. She then worked as an illustrator and journalist for various Berlin newspapers.

She also began to write and with success. Her second novel Die Zürcher Verlobung was a big hit with the public in 1955 and was filmed in 1957 by Helmut Käutner. Noack's subsequent books were also regular bestsellers well into the 1980s. In addition to conventional love stories for a female readership, her later works also described her experiences as a single mother with her adolescent son and her own life story in the autobiographical novels A Handful of Happiness and A Piece of Life.

Source: de.wikipedia.org

Reviews

[Katrin V · Rating 4 out of 5]

A humorous light read set in Munich with some laugh out loud moments.