Welcome to the website of

 

Catharina Fleckenstein 

 

 

 

        UPCOMING: PUBLICATION AND RELEASE WITH READING 09.11.2024

 

“Mensch Sein.

The invisible wounds:

Aftermath of war and captivity” 

 

is a literary documentation of the experiences of a young man who experienced

a relatively carefree childhood in Mainz in the 1920s, became an

army radio operator in Norway during the Second World War and was

taken prisoner at the end of the war. He was comparatively lucky.

Nevertheless, this time left deep scars.

Many years later he wrote down his experiences. 

"Everything that is not suffered and resolved to the end comes back",

Hermann Hesse.

With this in mind, we try to trace what our father experienced in the

formative years of his youth and growing up.

How his experiences and stories affected us daughters we tell from the

perspective of the young and old children.

The memoirs are presented from a scholarly perspective in essays by

Dr. Carmen Scheide entitled “German prisoners of war in the French occupation zone of

southern Baden: The Dépôt secondaire 231 B in Singen from 1946 to 1948” and

Monika Scheide "Locked away - art from prisoner of war camps".

Published by Dr. Carmen Scheide 

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