Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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)