Robert Streibel - April in Stein

April in Stein tells of life and survival in prison, forced labour and political resistance, but above all the mass murder in Krems for the first time.

During the Nazi tyranny, the prison in Krems-Stein was the largest in the "Ostmark" or ‘Eastern March’; the Nazi’s name for Austria. This was where dissidents were imprisoned – communists and "saboteurs", resisters from Austria and Eastern Europe. On April 6 1945, the prison governor opens the gates of the prison when faced by the advancing Red Army, but the SS, SA and local people hunt and kill hundreds of political prisoners in an unprecedented massacre. Some manage to escape, some survive by hiding in cellars, and their reports form the basis of Robert Streibel’s polyphonic panorama.

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264 pages
format:125 x 205
ISBN: 9783701716494
Release date: 05.03.2015

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Authors

Robert Streibel

born in 1959 in Krems an der Donau, studied history in many cities including Vienna, and has been director of the Community College in Hietzing since 1999. As a historian, he has conducted numerous research projects on National Socialism, Judaism, exile and numerous commemorative actions on expulsion and resistance in the Nazi state. Publications include "They Were Suddenly All Gone: The Jews of the Provincial Capital Krems ","February in the Province: A Investigation into the 12th February 1934 in the Northeast” and most recently “Krems 1938-1945. A History of Adaptation, Betrayal and Resistance."

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Robert Streibel schreibt gegen Vergessen und Verdrängen an.
[Quelle: Thomas Jorda, NÖN]

Streibel stellt ein kollektives, für die österreichische Zeitgeschichte wichtiges Ereignis aus vielerlei Perspektiven und derart fesselnd dar, dass es schwerfällt, in der Lektüre innezuhalten. (...)
Ein Buch, das Staunen macht. (…) Gemessen an diesem Roman erscheinen die Neuerscheinungen der Saison wie Firmlinge in adretten Anzügen.
[Quelle: Erich Hackl, JUNGE WELT]

In dem Buch geht es nicht nur um die Opfer, sondern auch um die Täter…
[Quelle: http://noe.orf.at]

Streibel hat mit diesem besonderen Projekt lange verdrängte und vergessene Ereignisse erforscht.
[Quelle: Peter Vodosek, EKZ]

Hier haben fast alle erfundene Namen. Trotzdem ist dieses Buch wahrer, als man ertragen kann. Wahrheit kann zumutbar UND unerträglich sein.
(Quelle: Peter Pisa, KURIER]

Die Erinnerungen der Überlebenden hat Robert Streibel als Historiker in zahlreichen persönlichen Gesprächen festgehalten und zu einem vielstimmigen, erschütternden Roman verbunden, der eines der nicht wenigen verdrängten Stücke österreichischer Zeitgeschichte lebendig macht.
[Quelle: Janko Ferk, LITERATUTHAUS.AT]

Darin liegt Streibels größter erzählerischer Verdienst - nicht in stilistischer Brillanz oder dem Gestalten ausgefeilter Charaktere, sondern im detailreichen Entwerfen einer dichten Atmosphäre, die vieles spürbar macht ohne reißerisch zu werden.
[Quelle: APA/TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG]

… ein beeindruckendes Mosaik aus vielen Stimmen, die die Banalität des Bösen, wie die Philosophin Hannah Arendt es ausdrückt, sichtbar macht. Aber es gibt auch gute Menschen und so etwas wie Hoffnung. Ein grossartiger Roman, besser als jedes Geschichtsbuch.
[Quelle: Wolfgang Bortlik, 20 MINUTEN]

Die Augenzeugenberichte der Überlebenden bilden das Gerüst des dokumentarischen Romans Streibels (…), in dem dieser die furchtbaren Ereignisse ebenso eindrucksvoll wie drastisch schildert. Dieses Buch geht unter die Haut und macht betroffen. Und gerade deshalb sollte man es lesen.
[Quelle: Günter Bielemeier, BUCHPROFILE/MEDIENPROFILE]

This book is a must! It's not only a brilliant bridge from the past to the present, but a necessary lesson for the future as well. (…) A very good book – Thank you Robert Streibel!
[Quelle: Nigel A. James, DIARIKOM]

Ein erschütterndes Buch, das ein kaum mehr bewusstes Kapitel der griechischen Leidensgeschichte unter dem Nazi-Faschismus vor dem Vergessen bewahrt.
[Quelle: Heinz Gstrein, GRIECHENLAND ZEITUNG]

Das Buch bereichert unsere Kenntnisse über das Schicksal der griechischen Häftlinge in Österreich. Es wäre wünschenswert, wenn der Autor seine Forschungen fortsetzen und erweitern könnte.
[Quelle: Loukas Lymperopoulos, HERMES]

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