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Siedemset metrów pod ziemią w sztolni, w której cała siódemka górników czekała na ratunek, około szóstego dnia po katastrofie zgasło światło ostatniej lampki górniczej.
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465 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1937
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About the author
Anna Seghers
150 books132 followersAnna Seghers (November 19, 1900, Mainz – June 1, 1983, Berlin) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.
Born Netty Reiling in Mainz in 1900 of partly Jewish descent, she married Laszlo Radvanyi, a Hungarian Communist in 1925.
In Cologne and Heidelberg she studied history, the history of art and Chinese. She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928, at the height of its struggle against the burgeoning National Socialist German Workers Party. Her 1932 novel, Die Gefährten was a prophetic warning of the dangers of Fascism, which led to her being arrested by the Gestapo.
After German troops invaded the French Third Republic in 1940, she fled to Marseilles and one year later to Mexico, where she founded the anti-fascist 'Heinrich-Heine-Klub', named after the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, and founded Freies Deutschland (Free Germany), an academic journal. During this time, she wrote The Seventh Cross, for which she received the Büchner-Prize in 1947. The novel is set in 1936 and describes the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp. It was published in the United States in 1942 and produced as a movie in 1944 by MGM starring Spencer Tracy. The Seventh Cross was one of the very few depictions of Nazi concentration camps, in either literature or the cinema, during World War II.
Seghers best-known story The Outing of the Dead Girls (1946), written in Mexico, was an autobiographical reminiscence of a pre-World War I class excursion on the Rhine river in which the actions of the protagonist's classmates are seen in light of their decisions and ultimate fates during both world wars. In describing them, the German countryside, and her soon-to-be destroyed hometown Mainz, Seghers gives the reader a strong sense of lost innocence and the senseless injustices of war, from which there proves to be no escape, whether or not you sympathized with the Nazi party. Other notable Seghers stories include Sagen von Artemis (1938) and The Ship of the Argonauts (1953), both based on myths.
In 1947, Anna Seghers returned to Germany, moved to West Berlin, and became a member of the SED in the zone occupied by the Soviets. In 1950, she moved to East Berlin and became a co-founder of the freedom movement of the GDR. In 1951, she received both the first Nationalpreis der DDR and the Stalin Peace Prize, and in 1959 the "Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Jena." In 1981, she became "Ehrenbürgerin" of her native town Mainz.
Born Netty Reiling in Mainz in 1900 of partly Jewish descent, she married Laszlo Radvanyi, a Hungarian Communist in 1925.
In Cologne and Heidelberg she studied history, the history of art and Chinese. She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928, at the height of its struggle against the burgeoning National Socialist German Workers Party. Her 1932 novel, Die Gefährten was a prophetic warning of the dangers of Fascism, which led to her being arrested by the Gestapo.
After German troops invaded the French Third Republic in 1940, she fled to Marseilles and one year later to Mexico, where she founded the anti-fascist 'Heinrich-Heine-Klub', named after the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, and founded Freies Deutschland (Free Germany), an academic journal. During this time, she wrote The Seventh Cross, for which she received the Büchner-Prize in 1947. The novel is set in 1936 and describes the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp. It was published in the United States in 1942 and produced as a movie in 1944 by MGM starring Spencer Tracy. The Seventh Cross was one of the very few depictions of Nazi concentration camps, in either literature or the cinema, during World War II.
Seghers best-known story The Outing of the Dead Girls (1946), written in Mexico, was an autobiographical reminiscence of a pre-World War I class excursion on the Rhine river in which the actions of the protagonist's classmates are seen in light of their decisions and ultimate fates during both world wars. In describing them, the German countryside, and her soon-to-be destroyed hometown Mainz, Seghers gives the reader a strong sense of lost innocence and the senseless injustices of war, from which there proves to be no escape, whether or not you sympathized with the Nazi party. Other notable Seghers stories include Sagen von Artemis (1938) and The Ship of the Argonauts (1953), both based on myths.
In 1947, Anna Seghers returned to Germany, moved to West Berlin, and became a member of the SED in the zone occupied by the Soviets. In 1950, she moved to East Berlin and became a co-founder of the freedom movement of the GDR. In 1951, she received both the first Nationalpreis der DDR and the Stalin Peace Prize, and in 1959 the "Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Jena." In 1981, she became "Ehrenbürgerin" of her native town Mainz.
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January 5, 2026
Man spürt den Kohlestaub förmlich auf der Haut, hört das Knacken der Stollen und hält beim Lesen unwillkürlich die Luft an. Diese Geschichte packt nicht mit großen Effekten, sondern mit einer Wucht, die leise kommt und lange bleibt. Andreas Bentsch wird gerettet – zweimal sogar – und doch beginnt danach erst der eigentliche Abstieg. Arbeit weg, Würde angekratzt, Angst im Nacken. Willkommen in einer Zeit, in der Menschsein schnell zur Gefahr wurde.
Der Roman fühlt sich an wie ein kalter Wintermorgen: nüchtern, hart, aber glasklar. Seghers schreibt schnörkellos, fast spröde, und genau das trifft. Kein Pathos, kein erhobener Zeigefinger, nur das stille Protokoll eines Mannes, der immer wieder aufsteht, obwohl die Welt ihm ständig die Beine wegzieht. Beim Lesen kommen Gedanken wie von selbst: Wie hätte man selbst gehandelt? Mutig? Feige? Gar nicht?
Besonders stark ist diese permanente Bedrohung, die zwischen den Zeilen lauert. Die Nationalsozialisten sind da, lange bevor sie offen zuschlagen. Misstrauen wird zum Alltag, Hoffnung zur heimlichen Währung. Und dann dieser Gedanke, der hängen bleibt: Rettung bedeutet hier nicht Sicherheit, sondern Verantwortung. Wer überlebt, kann nicht einfach weitermachen.
Das Nachwort und der Stellenkommentar geben dem Ganzen zusätzlich Tiefe und zeigen, wie aktuell dieser Roman leider geblieben ist. Kein Wohlfühlbuch, aber eines, das nachhallt. Eines, das den Kaffee kalt werden lässt, weil man noch eine Seite lesen muss. Und noch eine.
Der Roman fühlt sich an wie ein kalter Wintermorgen: nüchtern, hart, aber glasklar. Seghers schreibt schnörkellos, fast spröde, und genau das trifft. Kein Pathos, kein erhobener Zeigefinger, nur das stille Protokoll eines Mannes, der immer wieder aufsteht, obwohl die Welt ihm ständig die Beine wegzieht. Beim Lesen kommen Gedanken wie von selbst: Wie hätte man selbst gehandelt? Mutig? Feige? Gar nicht?
Besonders stark ist diese permanente Bedrohung, die zwischen den Zeilen lauert. Die Nationalsozialisten sind da, lange bevor sie offen zuschlagen. Misstrauen wird zum Alltag, Hoffnung zur heimlichen Währung. Und dann dieser Gedanke, der hängen bleibt: Rettung bedeutet hier nicht Sicherheit, sondern Verantwortung. Wer überlebt, kann nicht einfach weitermachen.
Das Nachwort und der Stellenkommentar geben dem Ganzen zusätzlich Tiefe und zeigen, wie aktuell dieser Roman leider geblieben ist. Kein Wohlfühlbuch, aber eines, das nachhallt. Eines, das den Kaffee kalt werden lässt, weil man noch eine Seite lesen muss. Und noch eine.
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