Hannelore Kohl - Zwei Leben (Two lives)

On the morning of July 5, 2001, the news spread through Germany like wildfire: Hannelore Kohl, the wife of former Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, had committed suicide. Why did she do it? What was behind it? Who was to blame? And…who actually was this woman with her lacquered blonde hair and constant smile who had kept in the background, fulfilling the role of politician's wife to perfection?

Despite obstruction from Helmut Kohl, whose family was preparing a biography of its own, Patricia Clough produced a highly-praised portrait of this remarkable woman. She follows Hannelore from her privileged childhood in Leipzig through the horrors of war and flight from the Red Army, from direst poverty to her difficult but successful marriage to a politician became the most powerful man in Germany. She portrays her groundbreaking work for brain-damaged accident victims - a major achievement in itself - and her battle with the terrible and incurable illness, an allergy to light, which was drive her to suicide.

Published by DVA Stuttgart/Munich, price €19.90. It has been reprinted in the German Readers Digest, is available on cassettes and CD's and, since March 2003, in paperback." ISBN   3421056153

further information
www.sprechendebuecher.de
Sample recording