The Hunger Angel

Respiratory swing is a 2009 published novel by Herta Müller, who was honored in the same year with the Nobel Prize for Literature. It reported Leopold Auberg, a seventeen year old from Transylvania, about his deportation to the labor camp Novo- Gorlowka in the Soviet Ukraine. The persecution of the Romanian German under Stalin is made visible in an individual's history. The published in Hanser Verlag novel was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2009.

Action

Seventeen- year-old Leopold Auberg is deported as a member of the ethnic group of the Transylvanian Saxons from the advancing Soviet soldiers for labor service in the Soviet Union. In Stock arrived he lived through five years full of deprivation and hunger. From the guards and Kapo Tur Prikulitsch suppressed, it adapts but mentally and physically at the camp life and come to terms with the situation.

Even after his release from the camp Leopold remains under the impression of there experiences.

Formation

The author has collected the material in talks with the poet Oskar Pastior and other survivors. 2004 Ernest traveled Wichner, Oskar Pastior and Herta Müller, supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation to places of former forced labor camp in the Ukraine.

Reviews

Daniela Strigl wrote in literatures: " Herta Müller is in, breathing swing ' literary images with the extra language. " She had " a timeless study of humans in extremis written while a novel that is saturated with the experience of the terrible 20th century [ ... ]. "

Expenditure

• Herta Müller: Respiratory swing. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23391-1.
• Audio book version: Herta Müller: Respiratory swing. Unabridged. Read by Ulrich Matthes. Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2009 ISBN 978-3-89903-686-2.