Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke (1888–1978) chronicled her eventful life for forty-three years: The brief marriage to August Macke, the marriage to the journalist Lothar Erdmann, the turbulent 1920s in Bonn and Berlin, the seizure of power, and Erdmann’s gruesome death at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the years of the war, and the return to Bonn. As executor of Macke’s estate, she wrote a bestseller in 1962 with Erinnerung an August Macke, and her Begegnungen was published posthumously in 2009. Her touching Tagebücher, which are now being published for the first time, are a minor sensation. The complete text documentation also accompanies the book as a CD.