German Book Club Reads Heinrich Böll

At the September German Book Club meeting, we will discuss Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, 1976. ISBN: 978-3423011501. 6,99 €).

Katharina Blum is a young and pretty housekeeper, who can afford a small condo and a Volkswagen.  She has a cheerful but modest personality, and is known as “the nun” because she recoils from the advances of forward men.  She suddenly becomes infatuated with a young man who is a radical criminal wanted by the police.  She helps him escape and unwittingly becomes the victim of tabloid sensationalism. The situation escalates, when the journalist Werner Tötges comes into her apartment….

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