In my most successful novel in Germany, When the Skies Rained Freedom, about the post-war period in Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, I could add many important details thanks to my eyewitness and survivor, Loni Tiemann. Last week, I had the honor not only of visiting her, but […]
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Let’s be clear, without the help of the US in 1948/1949, Berlin may have been lost to the Soviets. Who knows, reunification may not have happened. But let me start at the beginning. A Novel in the Making Since I write in English and German, I always search for subjects that may interest US-American and
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Friends, I know it’s been a while. Other than the WWII novella, A Lightness in My Soul, I haven’t created any new English language works. But now, finally, I present to you an exciting new historical novel, called “The Scent of a Storm.” Over the years I’ve been meeting many people whose family members, parents
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Last week I showed my amazing daughter-in-law, Mar, some of the historical spots of my WWII novel Surviving the Fatherland. She also helps me with marketing on Instagram and Facebook. It so happens that we live a five-minute walk from the places, my parents and main protagonists endured the war. We stopped by the old
Liebe Leser, ich wünsche Ihnen ein paar schöne Tage, wenn sie vielleicht auch nicht wie gewohnt stattfinden können. Gerade heute las ich, dass wir uns jetzt auf uns konzentrieren können, vielleicht ein wenig nach innen horchen, uns selbst etwas Gutes tun. Dieses Gute, dieser Respekt, den wir uns selbst zeigen, wirkt sich dann auch auf
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***Jetzt eBuch vorbestellen*** Mal wieder habe ich eine emotionale Reise in die Vergangenheit hinter mir. Diesmal verbrachte ich viele Monate mit der Recherche der erweiterten Kinderlandverschickung (KLV), einem Programm, an dem im Dritten Reich viele Kinder und Jugendliche teilnahmen. Nach der Lektüre vieler Bücher über die KLV, dem Studieren von Zeitzeugenberichten in den Medien, verschiedenen
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Im März 1945 wurde mein Vater Günter zum Volkssturm eingezogen. Er war damals 16 Jahre alt. Hitlers letztes Diktat an die Zivilbevölkerung befahl, das Vaterland zu verteidigen. Mein Vater sollte sich nach Marburg durchschlagen und von der Hitlerjugend trainiert und ausgestattet werden. Natürlich war dieser Befehl wie so viele davor glatter Wahnsinn, denn der Krieg
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If you read Surviving the Fatherland, you will likely enjoy When They Made Us Leave, the new WWII novel that I based on true-life accounts of participants in Hitler’s youth evacuation program. It is a love story, a historical adventure, and like Surviving the Fatherland provides a glimpse of German civilian life during the war”through
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I’m the first to admit that I find the Middle Ages fascinating. But anyone who knows what life was really like in those days, also knows that we tend to romanticize a lot. The old castle ruins of Hanstein I still use as the header for my website were my inspiration to write the ESCAPE
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I’m happy to announce that I have received the rights to my exciting time-travel adventure, ESCAPE FROM THE PAST, from my previous publisher. From now on, I’ll be doing publication and marketing in-house. The first step has been updating the three covers that were neither age- nor genre-appropriate. Back in 2015 when the first book