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Der Vater eines Mörders
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The Father of a Murderer

Published by Diogenes as Der Vater eines Mörders
Original Title: Der Vater eines Mörders
›The Father of a Murderer‹ takes place in a classroom of the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in 1920s Munich over the course of a single Greek lesson. Headmaster Himmler (the father of Heinrich Himmler) enters the classroom, apparently to observe the students' progress. However, he soon takes over the lesson himself. Himmler mercilessly tests the boys, but his real purpose is to teach a political lesson to the German youths, and through them to settle accounts with their fathers. In the venerable tradition of German school novels (Musil's ›Young Törless‹ and Heinrich Mann's ›Professor Garbage‹), this tale can be read as an account of routine academic sadism, but the essence of the story lies in the fine nuances of speech, thought, and behaviour that illustrate, in the most sophisticated way, how the rise of Hitler was possible. This chilling novel was Andersch's final work. It is considered by many to be his masterpiece.

General Fiction, Compulsory Reading
144 pages
1980

978-3-257-01597-3
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»The text reveals one of Andersch's undeniable strengths, the interweaving of the public and the private, the personal and the political.«
Rhys W. Williams / new books in german
»An extremely intense, artful, absorbing prose masterpiece.«
Hanjo Kesting / Der Spiegel, Hamburg
»The text reveals one of Andersch's undeniable strengths, the interweaving of the public and the private, the personal and the political.«
Rhys W. Williams / new books in german
»An extremely intense, artful, absorbing prose masterpiece.«
Hanjo Kesting / Der Spiegel, Hamburg
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