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Anna Seghers
AuthorBooks · Second hand1900-1983
Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
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About Anna Seghers
Birth
1900
Death
1983
First book
1924
Years writing
102
Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
Anna Seghers is the literary pseudonym of the German writer Annette Reiling.
Her most iconic work, The Seventh Cross, deeply explores the moral experience of the Second World War.
During her exile, she lived in Mexico City from 1941 to 1947 after escaping occupied France.
She was an active member of the resistance, a commitment that shaped much of her prolific literary career.
Throughout her life, she wrote over 200 works, establishing herself as a key figure in 20th-century literature.
