![]() ![]() Marianne's story of belonging, love and loss, set against the backdrops of Nazi Germany, Apartheid, and a free South Africa, is deeply affecting, and filled with wisdom and hope. Only after she adopted two black orphan girls, her father distanced himself from his Nazi sympathies. Told in her inimitable, frank and funny voice, Marianne's memoirs offers a poignant, often hilarious account of her complex relationship with her parents, her father in particular, and the ever-present ghosts of history. Her German father who fought for Hitler and married her Portuguese mother in England, where she was working as a cleaner. In her book she recounts her unconventional life story with great honesty and humour. Today, she is an outspoken feminist icon and proud mother of two teenagers. ![]() South-African writer, journalist and occasional comedian Marianne Thamm grew up in the heydays of Apartheid, amid Afrikaans neighbours in Pretoria's less salubrious suburbs. Tom Lanoye introduces South-African writer Marianne Thamm - Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me ![]()
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