Irmina
By: Barbara Yelin ; afterword by Dr Alexander Korb
Contributors: Korb, Alexander Martin
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781910593103
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; National socialism; Young women; Comic books, strips; Nazis; Fiction
Description: In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina that prosperity will only be possible through the betrayal of her ideals. In the award-winning Irmina, Barbara Yelin presents a troubling drama about the tension between integrity and social advancement, reflecting with compassion and intelligence on the complicity that results from the choice, conscious or otherwise, to look away.
Notes: Translated from the German.