by Władysław Szpilman · Ullstein Tb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548363516
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«Der Pianist. Mein wunderbares Überleben.» is the autobiography of Władysław Szpilman, published by Ullstein Tb in paperback (231 pages, in German).
The pianist Władysław Szpilman recounts his experience in occupied Warsaw during World War II: confinement in the ghetto, the constant threat of deportation, the loss of his surroundings, and the help of those who tried to protect him.
The work, originally published in 1946 as «Śmierć miasta», won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2000.
Of interest to those seeking Holocaust testimonies and the history of the Warsaw ghetto, and to those coming from the movie «El Pianista».
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.
