Bibliograph

Aimée & Jaguar, a love story, Berlin 1943

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Aimée & Jaguar, a love story, Berlin 1943

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Aimée & Jaguar

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a love story, Berlin 1943

Summary

Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim. It was love almost at first sight. Aimě (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice) started forging plans for the future. They composed poems and love letters to each other, and wrote their own marriage contract. When Jaguar admitted to her lover that she was Jewish, this dangerous secret drew the two women even closer to each other. But their luck didn't last. On August 21, 1944, Jaguar was arrested and deported. At the age of eighty, Lilly Wust told her story to Erica Fischer, who turned it into a poignant testimony. After the book appeared in 1994 she was contacted by additional contemporaries of Aimě and Jaguar who offered new material that has been integrated into the present edition. The book, translated into twenty languages, and the film based on it-directed by Max Frb̃erbc̲k, with Juliane Kh̲ler and Maria Schrader in the leading roles-have made Aimě and Jaguar's story known around the world

Target audience

adult

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