Wolfszeit

  • Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2019!
  • 160,000 copies sold!
  • The French edition of the book was awared Le Prix Transfuge and Le Prix Historia 2024.
  • The UK edition of the book Aftermath was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 for Non-Fiction. 

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2019
Harald Jähners große Mentalitätsgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit zeigt die Deutschen in ihrer ganzen Vielfalt: etwa den „Umerzieher“ Alfred Döblin, der das Vertrauen seiner Landsleute zu gewinnen suchte, oder Beate Uhse, die mit ihrem „Versandgeschäft für Ehehygiene“ alle Vorstellungen von Sittlichkeit infrage stellte; aber auch die namenlosen Schwarzmarkthändler, in den Taschen die mythisch aufgeladenen Lucky Strikes, oder die stilsicheren Hausfrauen am nicht weniger symbolhaften Nierentisch der anbrechenden Fünfziger. Das gesellschaftliche Panorama eines Jahrzehnts, das entscheidend war für die Deutschen und in vielem ganz anders, als wir oft glauben.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 15.09.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-63304-1
  • 480 Pages
  • Author: Harald Jähner

Awards

  • 2019: gewonnen - Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse

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Harald Jähner Wolfszeit
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Harald Jähner

Harald Jähner , born in 1953, was the head of the feuilleton at Berliner Zeitung until 2015 and a honorary professor for cultural journalism at the University of the Arts Berlin. In 2019, he published Wolfszeit , which won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and remained on the Spiegel bestseller list for months. It was published in several countries, including the USA and the UK, where it was nominated for the prestigious Baillie-Gifford Prize. The Times called it "a moving, fascinating read" , praising Jähner’s masterful ability to tell the tragic, horrific, comical, and inspiring stories of those who lived through it. His latest book, Höhenrausch (2022), was also a bestseller and translated into many languages.