Summer of Dead Dreams
AuthorHarry Thürk
Original titleSommer der toten Träume
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Genreautobiography with fictional elements
PublisherMitteldeutscher Verlag
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages340
ISBN9783898122412

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

  1. ↑ "Übersetzungsbibliografien – Deutsches Polen-Institut". www.deutsches-polen-institut.de. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  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. 1 2 3 Redakcja (2002-10-25). "Prudnickie getto". Opole Nasze Miasto (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  5. 1 2 "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.
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