by Siegfried Lenz · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423009447
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«Deutschstunde» is the German novel by Siegfried Lenz, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (415 pages, in German).
In Nazi and postwar Germany, Siggi Jepsen, an inmate in a juvenile detention center, must write an essay on the joys of duty and ends up recalling his childhood, when his father, a local policeman, receives the order to forbid a family friend, an artist, from painting. A story about guilt and the sense of duty.
The work was originally published in 1968; this paperback edition from dtv dates from 1995 and is the 36th edition.
Readers of classic novels and historical fiction focused on Nazi and postwar Germany.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
