Quote of the day
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Anna Seghers
Born: November 19, 1900
Died: June 1, 1983 (aged 82)
Bio: Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname of the Dutch painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers.
Known for:
- Transit Visa (1944)
- The Seventh Cross (1942)
- Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen (1946)
- Der Kopflohn (1933)
- Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara (1929)