"The Book Thief (film) The Book Thief is a 2013 World War II war drama film directed by Brian Percival and starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nélisse. The film is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Markus Zusak and adapted by Michael Petroni. The film is about a young girl living with her adoptive German family during the Nazi era. Taught to read by her kind-hearted foster father, the girl begins ""borrowing"" books and sharing them with the Jewish refugee being sheltered by her foster parents in their home. The film features a musical"
"also the recipient of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Australian Novelist of the Year Award. Markus Zusak Markus Frank Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer. He is best known for ""The Book Thief"" and ""The Messenger"" (US title: ""I Am the Messenger""), two novels for young adults which became international bestsellers. He won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014 for his contributions to young-adult literature published in the United States. Zusak was born in Sydney, Australia. His mother Lisa is originally from Germany and his father Helmut is from Austria. They emigrated to Australia in the"
"Stefan Zweig, ""Chess"" (""Schachnovelle"", 1943), trans. Anthea Bell, Penguin Books, 2006<br> Stefan Zweig, ""The World of Yesterday"" (""Die Welt von Gestern"", 1943), trans. Anthea Bell, Pushkin Press, 2011 Moriz Scheyer Moriz Scheyer (27 December 1886 in Focșani, Romania – 29 March 1949 in Belvès, France) was an Austrian author. In his lifetime best known for his literary essays and reviews, he is the author of ""Asylum"", a vivid account of his experiences as a Jewish refugee in France during the Second World War, first discovered and published more than sixty-five years after his death. Moriz Scheyer was born in Focșani"
"Markus Zusak Markus Frank Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer. He is best known for ""The Book Thief"" and ""The Messenger"" (US title: ""I Am the Messenger""), two novels for young adults which became international bestsellers. He won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014 for his contributions to young-adult literature published in the United States. Zusak was born in Sydney, Australia. His mother Lisa is originally from Germany and his father Helmut is from Austria. They emigrated to Australia in the late 1950s. Markus is the youngest of four children and has two sisters and one"
"the titular book thief, Liesel Meminger. Markus Zusak, who wrote the novel that inspired the movie, was pleased with Nico's portrayal of his character and wrote: ¨He's magnificent, indeed. He is Rudy.¨ Nico is one of two children. His older sister Luca is a singer, and has performed at several theatres in Germany. Nico Liersch Nico Louis Liersch (born 17 July 2000) is a German TV and film teen actor. He is mostly known for his role as Rudy Steiner in the 2013 film ""The Book Thief"". He is also known for his work in the German television series Das"
"Times"". His first book, ""The Traitor"", was published in 2002, and concerns the British Free Corps, a British unit of the Waffen-SS. ""The Leader"" (2003) is set in a Britain ruled by Oswald Mosley as a Fascist dictator. ""The Occupation"" (2004) takes place during the German occupation of the Channel Islands. ""The Colditz Legacy"" (2005) is set in Colditz Castle during the war and the 1970s. With James Owen, he edited ""The Voice of War"" in 2004, a collection of Second World War memoirs. In 2006 he published ""Berlin Games"", a history of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which was shortlisted"
"Munich (film) Munich is a 2005 historical drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. It is based on the book ""Vengeance,"" an account of Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. ""Munich"" received five Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Score. The film made $130 million worldwide but just $47 million in the United States, making it one of Spielberg's lowest-grossing films domestically. In 2017, the film"
"Jörg Friedrich (author) Jörg Friedrich (sometimes spelt Joerg or Jorg in English) (born 17 August 1944 in Kitzbühel) is a German author and historian. Friedrich is best known for his publication ""Der Brand"" (2002), in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder. An English translation, ""The Fire"", was published in 2006 by Columbia University Press and met with widespread critical approval. For example, the ""New York Times"" said it ""describes in stark, unrelenting and very literary detail what happened in city after city as the"
"Sophie Nélisse Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in ""Monsieur Lazhar"", and as Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel ""The Book Thief"" written by Markus Zusak. Her sister Isabelle Nélisse (born December 3, 2003) is also an actress, best known for her roles in ""Mama"" (for which she received multiple award nominations) and HBO's controversial film ""The Tale""; the sisters also played together in """", ""Wait Till Helen Comes"" and ""Worst Case, We Get Married"". Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, on March 27,"
"for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including ""The Prodigal Spy"", ""The Good German"" and ""Alibi"". His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the ""Boston Globe"" and ""The New York Times"" have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. A film based on ""The Good German"" was produced in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh"
"2013. ""The Book Thief"" received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 46%, based on 134 reviews, with an average score of 5.6/10. The site's consensus states, ""A bit too safe in its handling of its Nazi Germany setting, ""The Book Thief"" counters its constraints with a respectful tone and strong performances."" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 53 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". In her review for the ""New Empress Magazine"", Mairéad Roche praised the film for providing a ""fresher perspective on"
"Nico Liersch Nico Louis Liersch (born 17 July 2000) is a German TV and film teen actor. He is mostly known for his role as Rudy Steiner in the 2013 film ""The Book Thief"". He is also known for his work in the German television series Das ist Gut where he played Phillip Greenyard, a caveman without parents. In 2012, Nico Liersch appeared in episodes of the German TV series ""Inga Lindström"" and ""Das Traumhotel"". In February 2013, he was cast in the film adaptation of the best-seller novel ""The Book Thief"". He played Rudy Steiner, the best friend of"
"first German book to top ""The New York Times"" bestselling books list. It has been translated into 45 different languages and has been included in the curricula of college-level courses in Holocaust literature and German language and German literature. A 2008 film adaptation directed by Stephen Daldry was nominated for five Academy Awards, with Kate Winslet winning for her portrayal of Hanna Schmitz. The story is told in three parts by the main character, Michael Berg. Each part takes place in a different time period in the past. Part I begins in a West German city in 1958. After 15-year-old"
"streets and the night"", recounting tales of his time as a police officer and taxi driver in Liverpool. Schumacher was born in Huyton, Merseyside. Tony Schumacher IMDB==References== Tony Schumacher (British author) Tony Schumacher is a British author,screenwriter and broadcaster from Liverpool. His first novel, ""The Darkest Hour"" is an alternate history, set in a 1940s UK after a German Victory in World War II. It was generally well received. His second book, The British Lion, was released by the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins, and was also well received in both the USA and UK. The third novel in the"
"Otfried Preußler Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) (20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's books author. More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translated into 55 languages. His best-known works are ""The Robber Hotzenplotz"" and ""The Satanic Mill"" (""Krabat""). He was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia. His parents were teachers. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the German Army. Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a"
"Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann (born 13 January 1975) is a German language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel ""Die Vermessung der Welt"" (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as ""Measuring the World"", 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's ""Perfume"" was released in 1985. According to the ""New York Times"" it was the world's second best selling novel in 2006 . All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's SPIEGEL bestseller list and were translated into English. He collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Paul Reitter"
"of answers from various people, including other Holocaust survivors]], religious leaders and former Nazis. The book was originally published in German by Opera Mundi in Paris, France in 1969. The first English translation was published in 1970. In 1943, at the height of both World War II and the Holocaust, a group of forced labourers from the Lemberg concentration camp are sent to a converted army hospital to clear medical waste. Simon Wiesenthal is summoned from this work detail by a nurse to the bedside of a dying Nazi soldier, Karl Seidl. The soldier tells him he is seeking ""a"
"more than five million copies around the world. In both 2007 and 2008, it was the best selling book of the year in Spain, and it has also reached number one on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list, as well as in the UK, Ireland, and Australia. The book was adapted in 2008 as a film of the same name. Bruno is a 9-year-old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin. He lives with his parents, his 12-year-old sister Gretel and maids, one of whom is called Maria. After a visit by Adolf Hitler, Bruno's father is promoted"
"Berlin: The Downfall 1945 Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (also known as The Fall of Berlin 1945 in the US) is a narrative history by Antony Beevor of the Battle of Berlin during World War II. It was published by Viking Press in 2002, then later by Penguin Books in 2003. The book achieved both critical and commercial success. It has been a number-one best seller in seven countries apart from Britain, and in the top five in another nine countries. Together with Beevor's ""Stalingrad"", first published in 1998, they have sold nearly three million copies. The book revisits the events"
"A Small Town in Germany A Small Town in Germany is a 1968 espionage novel by British author John le Carré. It is set in Bonn, the ""small town"" of the title, against a background of concern that former Nazis were returning to positions of power in West Germany. It is notable for being le Carré's first novel not to feature his recurring protagonist George Smiley or ""The Circus,"" le Carré's fictionalized version of MI6. Bonn, the eponymous small town, was chosen as West Germany's capital after World War II mainly due to the advocacy of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of"
"Heike Makatsch Heike Makatsch (born 13 August 1971) is a German actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Dr. Lisa Addison in ""Resident Evil"" (2002), Mia in ""Love Actually"" (2003), and as Liesel's mother in ""The Book Thief"" (2013). Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker"
"Norman Ohler Norman Ohler (born 1970) is a German ""New York Times"" bestselling author, novelist and screenwriter, best known for his book ""Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"", which has been published in over 25 languages. Ohler was born in Zweibrücken, West Germany in 1970 and attended journalism school in Hamburg. In 1995 he published ""Die Quotenmaschine"", the world's first hypertext novel in German. His second novel, ""Mitte"", was published in 2001 and praised by ""Der Spiegel"" as his 'masterpiece', followed by his third, ""Ponte City"", in 2002. These three novels form Ohler's ""City Trilogy"". In 2004, Ohler was invited by"
"the Stadtschauspielhaus Graz, where Stanišić was the city’s writer-in-residence. He has also written the novel ""Before the Feast"" (2016), published in English translation by Anthea Bell (Tin House Books). Saša Stanišić Saša Stanišić (born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and moved to Germany as a refugee of the Bosnian War when he was 14 years old. He has written an acclaimed novel in German which was published in English under the title ""How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone"". The book won a host of prizes in Germany and abroad, and"
"many prizes, including: Ruth Klüger Ruth Klüger (born 30 October 1931) is Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She is also the author of the bestseller ""weiter leben: Eine Jugend"" about her childhood in the Third Reich. In 1938, Hitler marched into Vienna. The annexation of Austria to the Third Reich deeply affected Klüger's life: Klüger, who then was only six years old, had to change schools frequently and grew up in an increasingly hostile and antisemitic environment. Her father, who was a Jewish gynaecologist, lost his practitioner's license and was"
"in English; the original name of the film in German is ""Das letzte Schweigen"", i.e. ""The last Silence"". Jan Costin Wagner Jan Costin Wagner (born 13 October 1972 in Langen) is a German crime fiction writer. His novels are set in Finland and feature detective Kimmo Joentaa. Wagner studied German Literature and History at university in Frankfurt, and later worked as a journalist. His first novel, ""Nachtfahrt"" (Night Trip) was published to much acclaim in 2002 and won the Marlowe Prize for Best Crime Novel. His wife is a native of Finland, and they spend time both there and in"
"literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki. ""Das Treibhaus"" (1953) was translated into English as ""The Hothouse"" (2001) and was named a Notable Book by the ""New York Times"" and one of the Best Books of the Year by the ""Los Angeles Times"". Koeppen's last major novel ""Der Tod in Rom"" (""Death in Rome"") was published in 1954. Gottlieb Judejahn, a character in ""Der Tod in Rom"", is a former SS general condemned to death at the Nuremberg trials. He escaped to an Arab country whose military he is trying to build up. He is in Rome to buy weapons and to meet"
"middle section into the film ""Lore"" in 2012. The Dark Room (Seiffert novel) The Dark Room (2001) is a novel by British writer Rachel Seiffert. The novel is composed of three unrelated novellas set in pre and post World War II Germany. In 1920s Berlin a boy is born with a slight birth defect of the arm. When he graduates school he becomes an apprentice at a photographer's workshop while at the same time taking an interest in the comings and goings of trains. Despite unintentionally witnessing and photographing a violent roundup of Romani people he remains ignorant of the"
"The Keep (Wilson novel) The Keep is a horror novel by American writer F. Paul Wilson. It is also the first volume in a series of six novels known as The Adversary Cycle. It appeared on the ""New York Times"" Bestsellers List and has been adapted for film and as a limited-series of comics. German soldiers and SS Einsatzkommandos are being slowly killed off in a mysterious castle (the ""keep"" of the title) high in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania in April 1941. Theodore Cuza, a Jewish history professor living in Bucharest, and his daughter Magda are brought to the"
"in plain sight, using assumed names. Siegmund was too well-known to use this strategem, and was instead hidden in the attics of near-by farms, able to get a glimpse of his daughter only once during their years in hiding. Spiegel wrote her most famous book, ""Saviors in the Night"" in 1960. Unlike other books about the Holocaust, it told about German citizens who saved Spiegel from the concentration camps. Although Spiegel's book became a best-seller, the story was not made into a film until decades later. Spiegel died from natural causes on 11 March 2014 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany."
"participation in the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944. The director Jerry Schatzberg made a film adaptation, released in 1989, under the same title: ""Reunion"". Reunion (1971) Reunion is a novella by Fred Uhlman, set in Germany, seven years before the start of World War II. The novella was published in 1971. The book tells the impossible friendship between the narrator Hans Schwarz, son of a Jewish doctor, and Konradin von Hohenfels, a young aristocrat, during the rise of the Nazi regime (in 1932) in Stuttgart. Hans and Konradin manage to become friends despite their differences. Hans invites"
"have been released, ""Helden wie wir"" and ""Sonnenallee"". Thomas Brussig Thomas Brussig (born 1964) is a German writer best known for his satirical novels that deal with the German Democratic Republic. Brussig was born in East Berlin. After attending the ""Heinrich-Hertz"" School, he went on to train as a builder. In 1984 he finished school and training, and served in the East German National People's Army (German: ""Nationale Volksarmee"" or NVA). Brussig found it difficult to wield a weapon and had a hard time. He worked as a museum guard, cleaner and hotel porter among a variety of other odd"
"The Thief (novella) The Thief is a 2006 novella by British author Ruth Rendell, published in the Quick Reads series. As an entry in said series, it is of novella length. ""The Thief"" is about Polly, who steals small items from people who upset or anger her, and the frightening path down which such thefts lead her. In the novel, Polly has no place to store the items. As a result of this - she stores them in her ""nether-regions"" (As described in the novel). The end of the novel results in a shoot out between Polly and the local"
"2016 Hermann-Hesse-Preis. It was nominated for the Bavarian Book Prize. The Dead (Kracht novel) The Dead () is a 2016 novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht, his fifth to date. It is set in the film industry at the end of the Weimar era, and tells the story of a (fictional) Swiss director, Emil Nägeli, and a Japanese government official (Masahiko Amakasu) who try to create a collaboration between German and Japanese cinema. The plot centers around the May 15 Incident. The narrative is structured like a Noh play with three acts. The language is inspired by the works"