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Landgericht
Written by Ursula Krechel
Narrated by Frank Arnold
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Ausgezeichnet von der HR2-Hörbuchbestenliste! Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2014! 1948 kehrt der Jude Richard Kornitzer mit den besten Absichten in seine ehemalige Heimat Deutschland zurück - um zu überleben war der Jurist einst vor den Nazis nach Kuba geflohen. Kornitzer will beim Wiederaufbau des zerstörten Landes helfen. Voller Hoffnung und Tatendrang wagt er einen Neubeginn im Nachkriegsdeutschland ... doch bald schon gerät er in Schwierigkeiten: Seine Wiedergutmachungsforderungen an den Staat werden ignoriert, anstelle von Verständnis für seine Situation erfährt er Mißtrauen. Auch die Familienwiedervereinigung gelingt nicht. So weicht Kornitzers anfängliche Aufbruchsstimmung immer mehr einer tiefen Verbitterung. Das Hörbuch zum Buch, das den Deutschen Buchpreis 2012 gewann, wird von Frank Arnold gelesen, der schon vielen großen literarischen Werken (z. B. Per Olov Enquists "Ein anderes Leben" oder Maarten 't Harts "Der Flieger") seine Stimme lieh.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In 1947, Judge Richard Kornitzer, removed from office by the Nazis in 1933 because of his Jewish descent and subsequently forced to go into exile in Cuba, finally manages to return to Germany to be reunited with his (non-Jewish) wife Claire, whom he hasn't seen for about ten years. He's keen to play his part in rebuilding German democracy, but German democracy doesn't seem to have been waiting very eagerly for returning exiles, and he finds his path back into professional life strewn with unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles. He finds Claire, who had been a successful businesswoman in her own right in Weimar days, with her own firm and a splendid modernist apartment in Berlin, now sick and struggling through menial office and factory jobs in the rural south-west. Their children, sent to safety in England on a Kindertransport, are now nearly grown up and perfectly happy with their foster-parents in Suffolk, in no hurry to have their lives shaken up by parents they had long-since given up for dead, and whose language they can barely remember.Krechel presents a detailed and very thoughtful and convincing study of the problem of reintegration for returning exiles, their unrealistic hopes, the jealousy felt by "ordinary" people who thought of themselves every bit as much "victims of fascism" as exiles who — as they must have seen it — were sitting on tropical beaches sipping rum cocktails whilst Germans were cowering in cellars listening to their houses being bombed. Not to mention the obvious reactions of self-protection, resentment and closing of ranks by those Germans whose political antecedents were not above criticism (the majority, after all) and the continuing echoes of years of antisemitic propaganda. The later part of the book is also very interesting, as it describes the way Kornitzer's life is taken over by his fight for proper compensation for the wrongs he has suffered both in his professional career and in his private property at the hands of the German state, which of course is still his employer. Even out of the specific context it's a very recognisable description of the effects that sort of campaign can have on someone's health and career — I've seen that happen to colleagues a few times in real life, and it's always a frustrating and depressing experience. I was slightly disappointed that the book didn't go very much into the specific problems of the Nazi legacy in the justice system, which is a big and fascinating topic in itself. Krechel clearly isn't a lawyer, and the few times she does venture into legal territory she gets rather tangled up (like most outsiders, she hasn't got a clue about patent law and how it works, for instance, but that's not all that important for the story). So she mostly treats Kornitzer's situation as a judge as a straightforward civil service job, spending far more time on career progression and personnel files than on court cases.The other problem I had with the book is that, while it fictionalises the life of its central character, based loosely on the real Judge Robert Michaelis, it doesn't actually do much to exploit the fact that it is a novel and not a biography. Very few scenes are dramatised, and hardly anyone uses direct speech: most of what happens in the book is told in hindsight through excerpts from letters, files and official reports. I couldn't really work out why Krechel had bothered to change the names and call it a novel, except perhaps to allow her to move Kornitzer's exile from Shanghai (which Krechel had written about in her previous book) to Cuba.