Jutta Jacobi - The Schnitzlers

The Story of a Family

The epic story of one of the most fascinating families of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

An handcart and the infidelity of an attractive bookseller’s-daughter launch the story: Jutta Jacobi tells the tale of Johann Schnitzler, talented son of a poor Jewish carpenter from Nagykanizsa, who became a famous Viennese doctor; of his son Arthur, who changed from a sex maniac to a moralist; of his wife Frau Olga, the most remorseful divorcee ever, of Lili, who found happiness at the side of a fascist officer; of Heinrich, forced to emigrate to America in 1938; of Arthur’s grandsons Peter and Michael, who free themselves from the burden of the past; and of great granddaughter Giuliana, who decorates the graves in the Central Cemetery with stars. A story of desire, warmed by humour, with changing perspectives over the course of the narrative.

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with numerous illustrations
304 pages
format:140 x 220
ISBN: 9783701732791
Release date: 02.10.2014

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Authors

Jutta Jacobi

was born in 1955 and studied German literature and theatre studies in Munich. She qualified as a Feldenkrais teacher in Vienna. She lives, writes and teaches in Hamburg. Her radio feature "Der Reigen zu Rad" was a homage to Arthur Schnitzler on his 150th birthday. Recent publications include "Zarah Leander. Das Leben einer Diva" (2006).

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…wundervoll und aus nächster Nähe zur Familie…
[Quelle: Walter Prankl, kultur-punkt.ch]

…mit Akribie und feiner Feder geschrieben…
[Quelle: Helmut Reister, JÜDISCHE ALLGEMEINE]

Sorgsam und detailreich zeichnet die Germanistin die Lebenswege der Familienmitglieder nach. Das eindrucksvolle Buch wurde autorisiert von Arthur Schnitzlers Enkeln, die Jutta Jacobi interviewte.
[Quelle: M-Lifestyle]

…eine Erzählung über gelebtes Leben. Generationenübergreifend und transatlantisch.
[Quelle: Roland R. Ropers, EPOCH TIMES]

Jutta Jacobi gelingt es, die Familiengeschichten der Schnitzlers auf das Wesentliche zu konzentrieren und ein Geschichtspanorama von Wien in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und retour, und eine Zeitreise vom 19. ins 21. Jahrhundert zu skizzieren. Auch wenn der Handlungsverlauf bekannt ist, so ist es doch spannend und genussvoll zu lesen. Außerdem ist laut Verlagsangaben das Buch von der Familie autorisiert. Sehr gelungen!
[Quelle: sandammeer, Brigitte Lichtenberger-Fenz]

Jacobis Forschungen haben interessante Früchte gezeitigt.
[Quelle: Ronald Pohl, DER STANDARD]

Die Rechercheleistung ist enorm. (…) Eine gelungene Künstler-Biographie – und eine beeindruckende Familiengeschichte.
[Quelle: Rüdiger Dittrich, GIESSENER ANZEIGER]

Ein wertschätzendes Porträt. Zugleich bietet das Buch einen aufschlussreichen Blick in die Zeitgeschichte. Lesenswert.
[Quelle: Katharina Hamberger, DEUTSCHLANDFUNK]

Es ist die Geschichte von Sehnsucht, dem Geschenk des Humors und dem Wandel der Perspektiven im Verlauf der Geschichte.
[Quelle: DOXMEDICAL]

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