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1939 flüchtete der 14-jährige Edgar Feuchtwanger aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland nach England. Seine Eltern blieben zunächst in München zurück. Die Briefe, die er ihnen erst auf Deutsch und bald auf Englisch schrieb, sind hier erstmals veröffentlicht. In einem Gespräch mit seiner Tochter Antonia Cox berichtet der heute 100-Jährige, wie er anfangs in England zurecht kam. Die Herausgeberin Anja Tuckermann beschreibt in ihrem Vorwort die lebensbedrohliche Situation in Deutschland und zeigt anhand zusätzlicher Dokumente, wie es der Familie in England erging. »Letters from a Child Exile. Edgar Feuchtwanger in England, 1939«: In 1939, 14-year-old Edgar Feuchtwanger fled from National Socialist Germany to England. His parents initially stayed behind in Munich. The letters he wrote to them, initially in German and then in English, are published here for the first time. In a conversation with his daughter Antonia Cox, the now 100-year-old describes how he made the most of his early days in England. In her foreword, editor Anja Tuckermann describes the life-threatening situation in Germany and uses additional documents to show how the family got along in England. Antonia Cox, Edgar Feuchtwanger's daughter, studied philosophy and history at the University of Cambridge. She previously worked as a leader writer at the Daily Telegraph, as a policy advisor, co-founder of a new school and served as a City Councillor in Westminster. She is a Secretary of State-appointed Member of the South Downs National Park Authority and has three sons with her husband Simon Cox.Dr. Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE, born in Munich in 1924, is a historian and author best known for »From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918-33« (2nd edition, 1995) and »Bismarck. Eine politische Geschichte« (2nd edition, 2014), for his biographies of the British prime ministers Disraeli and Gladstone, and for »Democracy and Empire, 1865-1914« (1985). In 2003 he received the German Federal Order of Merit and in 2021 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire. His autobiography »Erlebnis und Geschichte« was published in 2010. In 2012, he wrote, with Bertil Scali, a novelisation of his childhood experiences called »Hitler, mon voisin«, which has been translated into many other languages. With his wife Primrose (d.2012) he has two daughters, Antonia and Judith, and a son, Dr. Adrian Feuchtwanger. Anja Tuckermann's fiction, documentary novels, poetry, picture books and plays have received multiple awards, in particular for »Don't Think We'll Stay Here - The Life of the Sinti Hugo Höllenreiner«; »Mano. The Boy Who Didn't Know Where He Was«; and »Muscha«. Her non-fiction writing on the Nazi period includes »One People, One Reich, One Pile of Rubble« and »We Do Not Stay Silent: The Path to Resistance of the White Rose and the Scholl Siblings«. »Mooskopf«, her first novel, was published in 1988 and since then her books and plays have been translated into fourteen languages. She works with musicians and visual artists and leads writers' workshops.
