Summary
Siegfried Lenz: Hour of German
In the unusual relationship between the artist, who is affected by a senseless ban, and the policeman, who is not only a tool in the hands of the Nazis, Lenz presented an almost inconspicuous, yet deeply suggestive clip from the practice of political terror.
On an island for difficult-to-educate minors, locked in a room and watching the Elbe river through the window, the boy Siggi Jepsen writes criminal task from German on the topic "joy of duty". As the central character of his composition, which, in his opinion, best illustrates the given theme, Siggi Jepsen chooses his father, a security guard, in charge of supervising a local painter, who is forbidden to paint by the court and the police. A lesson in German turns into a lesson in German history, about people who fulfill their duty in a disciplined but completely uncritical manner, often unaware of the potential evil hidden in them and their actions. This novel was first published in 1968, and this edition is a repeated translation into Croatian by Leo Držić from 1979.
Likovna oprema Alfred Pal.
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