Valentin Senger
Born28 December 1918
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Died4 September 1997
Frankfurt
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Author and journalist

Valentin Senger (28 December 1918, in Frankfurt – 4 September 1997, in Frankfurt) was a German writer and journalist. He is best known for his 1978 autobiography, Kaiserhofstraße 12, recounting his childhood at the central Frankfurt street Kaiserhofstraße as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who survived the Nazi era undetected. The book appeared in English in 1980 under the title The Invisible Jew,[1] and was adapted into a motion picture in the same year.[2][3]

Works

  • Die Brücke von Kassel. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1954
  • Am seidenen Faden. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1956
  • Kaiserhofstraße 12. Darmstadt/Neuwied 1978, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-89561-485-9
  • Kurzer Frühling. Frankfurt/Main, 1984
  • (with Klaus Meier-Ude): Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Frankfurt/Main. 3. ed., Frankfurt/M 2004 (first ed. 1985)
  • Einführung in die Sozialpolitik. Soziale Sicherheit für alle. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Mai 1970
  • Die Buchsweilers. Frankfurt/Main 1994 (first ed. Hamburg und Zürich 1991)
  • Das Frauenbad und andere jüdische Geschichten. Munich 1994
  • Der Heimkehrer. Eine Verwunderung über die Nachkriegszeit. First ed. Munich 1995
  • Die rote Turnhose und andere Fahnengeschichten. Munich 1997

Film

References

  1. ↑ "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  2. ↑ Guido Speckmann: Valentin Senger (1918–1997). Überleben, politische Aktivität, Aufarbeitung, University of Marburg 2005.
  3. ↑ Literature by and about Valentin Senger in the German National Library catalogue
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