Κόκκινος Σταυρός

Ariadne Hope, a Greek-German student, studies art history at the Technical University of Dresden. Her master's thesis is about the relation between art and the expressive capacities of chronically institutionalised mental patients who were exterminated by the Nazis under the 'lawful destruction of useless lives'. One of her questions is what Bertha Gertrud Fleck (1870–1940), a mentally disturbed woman confined to asylums for most of her life and a victim of Nazi eugenics, was trying to say in code to the viewers of her paintings, and what secrets her few surviving works may hide. Real and invented people mix as the historical era, from the Great War through Weimar to Nazi Germany, meets the present.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

480 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 1914–1940, present

First published

2018 by Πόλις

Author's age

71 when first published

ISBN

9789604356072 (original)