Sophia Mott

Adapted into a film for ARD starring Thekla Carola Wied – winner of multiple awards!

With compelling narrative power, Sophia Mott unfolds Martha Liebermann’s moving life story and simultaneously retraces the history of the Liebermann family through vivid flashbacks.

Berlin, 1941: Martha Liebermann, widow of the painter Max Liebermann, is fighting — supported by numerous influential friends — for permission to leave Nazi Germany. She has long since had to say goodbye to her paradise on the Wannsee, as well as to her daughter Käthe and her granddaughter Maria, who have emigrated to the United States. Now she faces imminent deportation. A desperate race against time begins …

"As long as the works are not destroyed, hope for future, better times remains."
— Martha Liebermann

Hardcover with dust jacket, thread stitching | Ebersbach & Simon | Number of pages: 336 | Dimensions (L/W/H): 21.1/13.3/3.2 cm | Weight: 490 g | Language: German