Valentin Senger

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German writer (1918-1997)

From

Germany

was

Writer Journalist

Work field

Journalism Literature

Gender

Male

Birth

28 December 1918 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Frankfurt

Death

4 September 1997 (aged 78 years) People who died on this day

Place of death

Frankfurt

Age

78 years

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Biography

Valentin Senger (born 28 December 1918 in Frankfurt, died 4 September 1997 in Frankfurt) was a German author and journalist. He is best known for his 1978 autobiography, Kaiserhofstraße 12, recounting his childhood at the central Frankfurt street Kaiserhofstraße as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who survived the Nazi era undetected. The book appeared in English in 1980, and was adapted into a motion picture in the same year.

Works

Die Brücke von Kassel. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1954
Am seidenen Faden. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1956
Kaiserhofstraße 12. Darmstadt/Neuwied 1978, Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-89561-485-9
Kurzer Frühling. Frankfurt/Main, 1984
(with Klaus Meier-Ude): Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Frankfurt/Main. 3. ed., Frankfurt/M 2004 (first ed. 1985)
Einführung in die Sozialpolitik. Soziale Sicherheit für alle. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Mai 1970
Die Buchsweilers. Frankfurt/Main 1994 (first ed. Hamburg und Zürich 1991)
Das Frauenbad und andere jüdische Geschichten. Munich 1994
Der Heimkehrer. Eine Verwunderung über die Nachkriegszeit. First ed. Munich 1995
Die rote Turnhose und andere Fahnengeschichten. Munich 1997