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(German e-book version)
I saw 'Das Zeugenhaus' as TV-movie a few days ago and was intrigued by the idea of this wild mixture of people living under one roof. However, the movie left me wanting; I though there should be more to it than was shown and hoped to find it in the book.
Alas, I did not. The book certainly contains more, but is an assemblage of rather superficial little anecdotes. A part of the reason for this may lie in the time span between the events and their recording: Christiane Kohl interviewed the Countess Kálnoky forty years after she had first set foot into said witness house, others were interviewed even later. Some part may be due to Countess Kálnoky having a rather selective memory. Yet, I believe, some of the superficial feeling is also created through the disruptedness of the book. It jumps from one little detail to the next. The chapters do not really seem to have a golden thread. Had the author instead, for example, focused chapters on the different personalities (one for Diel, one for Hoffmann etc.), they might have provided a more complete, a more satisfying picture.
I saw 'Das Zeugenhaus' as TV-movie a few days ago and was intrigued by the idea of this wild mixture of people living under one roof. However, the movie left me wanting; I though there should be more to it than was shown and hoped to find it in the book.
Alas, I did not. The book certainly contains more, but is an assemblage of rather superficial little anecdotes. A part of the reason for this may lie in the time span between the events and their recording: Christiane Kohl interviewed the Countess Kálnoky forty years after she had first set foot into said witness house, others were interviewed even later. Some part may be due to Countess Kálnoky having a rather selective memory. Yet, I believe, some of the superficial feeling is also created through the disruptedness of the book. It jumps from one little detail to the next. The chapters do not really seem to have a golden thread. Had the author instead, for example, focused chapters on the different personalities (one for Diel, one for Hoffmann etc.), they might have provided a more complete, a more satisfying picture.