Camila Rodriguez Rubi

Inge Jens at the public library in Weimar

available in November 1998, reopened as a cultural city of object for basic reconstruction and rehabilitation public library in Weimar with the historic vaulted cellar with its own and perfectly suitable lecture hall, the small forms of music and literature, but also is ideally suited for exhibitions. Z. Zt. Exhibition of paintings and drawings by the painter Otto Weimar Paetz shown and yesterday (14 January 2010) Jens Inge read from her book "Incomplete . Memories, "The small basement room was full - mainly, and naturally women (and a few young!) The bookstore Thelemann with books of postdoctoral Germanist was represented;.. That the opportunity existed for signing

I Inge Jens' memories (not an autobiography as it does not tire to point out) in December 2009 read, and I then for the first time extensive with the history of the family man busy - especially with the written jointly with her husband, the writer and scholar Walter Jens biography Katja Mann ("Mrs. Thomas Mann"). This of course was interested in the Pringsheim and the children of Thomas Mann, Golo, in particular, Klaus and Erika Mann adapted Consequently, yesterday's reading as the end of this reading program with the personal acquaintance of the now 83 year old woman. For time reasons, they chose only three episodes from her book at Rowohlt laid out - childhood in bombing in Hamburg, contacts and travel in the former GDR and lines of pain and grief over the dementia of her husband Walter Jens. That touched us particularly, but my father now suffers from the same disease, so we can understand the words of the writer.

way Inge Jens received by the descendants of the consent to treatment of the estate by members of the "White Rose", the edition of letters I have distended antiquarian and given our subsidiary, BC for Christmas.

Literature:

Inge Jens incomplete memories
Rowohlt Reinbek bei Hamburg 2009

Inge Jens Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Letters and Papers
S. Fischer Frankfurt 1984

Inge and Walter Jens Mrs. Thomas Mann - The life of the Katharina Pringsheim
Rowohlt paperback rororo 23 664

On the radio:
"imperfect recollection" by Inge Jens
MDR FIGARO read Leipzig Café House of Books, broadcast on 17 January 2010, 15:00 Clock.

way: the images of Otto Paetz are worth!