A generationIn 2017, he took office only one month Donald Trump As the President of the United States, Timothy Snyder’s manifesto “On Tyranny” appeared in the United States. This historian of Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, who was born in 1969 and taught at Yale University, compiled twenty lessons that his research taught him in the twentieth century—now his audience should learn. However, this narrow book is mainly about the present, because Snyder determined from Donald Trump’s focus on the totalitarian system his familiar patterns in behavior and campaign strategies. In view of the failure of the Weimar Republic, he declared that American democracy faces the greatest danger. The book therefore turned to the future. The German translation that appeared in the same year emphasized this point, choosing “20 lessons in the twentieth century” as the subtitle “20 lessons in the resistance movement”.
This book is very popular among political activists. But Snyder wanted to reach young readers in the spirit of his fifteenth lesson (“Get in for a good cause”), so he got in touch with a narrator living in New York, her debut in 2018 It left a deep impression on him. It is called “belonging” in the American version, but it tells the story of a German family. In the picture, because the writer Nora Krug was born in Karlsruhe in 1977, he was first an illustrator. This book is called “Heimat” in German (FAZ on August 17, 2018). It won the prestigious National Book Critics Award in the United States. In the German translation, it also won the Shubart Prize for Literature ( Novel category) and Evangelical Literature Award. Book Award (as a non-fiction book).
One side is almost the other side arrangement
How did Snyder find it? Nora Kruger was sitting at the Berlin cafe “Both and” because she was visiting relatives in Germany. She remembered her American publisher asking historians to profile “Heimat”, a laudable evaluation. Snyder is happy to provide this because he sees a new type of connection between text and image in Nora Kruger’s book, which combines various illustrative elements-his own pictures, historical images , Family photos, document faxing-created a narrative platform to create pure text, so impressive in itself is already, take it to another level. He hoped that his book on tyranny would do the same. Therefore, Snyder’s publisher turned to Nora Kruger for help.
It was more than a year ago, and Trump was still in power. You might think that adding pictures to more than a hundred pages of text is easy, but if your name is Nora Krug, it’s not. Like “Dark Horse”, she only hopes that there will be such text in the book, based on her own handwriting, so that her personal graphic style is not only visible in the images she draws or collages, but also in the text image-interaction . The text should remain intact. This requires an arrangement on one side that hardly looks like the other side.
