Berlin book premiere "I want to go back in time"

In "Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit", Judith Hermann follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, who was stationed for the SS in Radom, Poland, during the Second World War. She links her writing with his long denied history, travels from Poland to her sister in Naples and explores the memories and forgetting of the following generations.

Judith Hermann traces the repressed, the voids of our society in intermediate tones and undertones. As magical as she is magnetic, she tells of how fragile we are in our lives - and also shows the beauty that can be hidden within them.

"Judith Hermann's books are unflinching explorations of the human condition." Roman Bucheli, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970 and now lives in Berlin and Friesland. Her extraordinary debut "Som merhaus, später" was followed by the short story collections "Nichts als Gespenster", "Alice", "Lettipark" and the novels "Aller Liebe Anfang" and "Daheim". These works have been honored with numerous awards, including international ones. She received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2023 for her last book, "Wir hätten uns alles gesagt".

"Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit" will be published by S. Fischer Verlag on February 25, 2026