„Unsere Töchter, die Nazinen“

Reading on International Women's Day with Dorothea Baltzer

he "red countess" Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883 - 1951) was long forgotten and unrecognized. One of her greatest books is certainly her anti-Nazi novel "Unsere Töchter, die Nazinen", written in 1933, the year of the "seizure of power".

Told from the perspective of three mothers - a working-class woman, a middle-class woman and a noblewoman - it describes at close quarters how their daughters are caught up in the maelstrom of events, in the maelstrom of the National Socialist movement - how they become "Nazis": A gripping book that has remained fresh and lively thanks to its sophisticated, unique narrative structure and has gained an uncanny topicality against the backdrop of a new, strengthening right-wing extremism.

Musical accompaniment by accordionist Michel Biehler.

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