Book tips

Book tips for Elke R. Steiner

Doc und Doctrix im Hochmoor
Berlin : Selbstverlag, 2001. 24 pages.

Confusion between a researcher, her mentally ill husband and an au pair girl, set against a backdrop of stem-cell smuggling.

    Die anderen Mendelssohns
    Berlin : Reprodukt, 2004. 64 pages. ISBN 3-931377-96-2

    In Die anderen Mendelssohns, Elke R. Steiner creates a historical family drama against the background of German-Jewish cultural history. Five members of the Berlin Mendelssohn dynasty consciously decide against an upper-class existence and go their own ways. The second volume was published in summer 2005.

      Herbert Lewin und Käte Frankenthal - zwei jüdische Ärzte aus Deutschland
      Köln : Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, 2005 (Sonderdruck anlässlich der Ausstellung im Aktiven Museum Spiegelgasse)
      Aktives Museum Spiegelgasse

      A comic-serial about the German medicals Herbert Lewin and Käte Frankenthal, who survived the Nazi-terror.

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          Comic about the Holocaust

          A comic entitled Die Suche (i.e. The Search) tells the story of a Jewish family murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Much discussed: whether young people can and should be taught about the Holocaust using comics.

          Comics in the classroom

          A collection of templates and didactic ideas for using German comics in language lessons.

          Reading List

          Suggestions for libraries abroad who wish to buy German-language comics