Book "Berchtesgaden" by Carolin Otto
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Berchtesgaden, spring 1945. The Führer's favorite city surrenders, and the Americans take over the government. Despite her limited English, 19-year-old Sophie takes a job with the Military Government, where she is confronted with the full truth about German crimes for the first time. There she meets people who change her view of her own family. There is her boss, Jewish emigrant Frank Rosenzweig, who is hoping for news of surviving relatives, and his girlfriend, the glamorous war reporter Meg. The mayor Rudolf Kriss, who was once sentenced to death. And the black GI Sam, with whom Sophie falls in love. In Berchtesgaden, their paths cross in a fateful way...
Born in Hamburg, raised in the Rhineland, she studied documentary film and directing at the HFF Munich. She then completed the screenwriting workshop and received her PhD in 2019 from the Bauhaus University Weimar in Fine Arts on the subject of screenwriting: From Facts to Fiction. She has been working as a screenwriter and filmmaker since 1995. She has written TV scripts for Polizeiruf, Tatort, Bulle von Tölz, München 7, Lena Lorenz, the ZDF two-part series Bier Royal, and the adaptation of Justizpalast, among others. She is the author, director, and producer of the feature films Aphrodite's Night and Der Weiße Rabe – Max Mannheimer. From 2019 to 2025, she was president of the FSE (Federation of Screenwriters in Europe). In 2025, her first novel, Berchtesgaden, was published by Lübbe-Verlag. She lives (mostly) in Munich.
Author: Carolin Otto
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