Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers · Arts & Literature
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1900, Mainz, Germany — 1983, East Berlin, East Germany
Germany · Mexico
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Anna Seghers (born Netty Reiling) was a German novelist whose anti-fascist works 'Das siebte Kreuz' (The Seventh Cross) and 'Transit' rank among the most powerful literary responses to Nazism and the refugee experience. Born into a Jewish family in Mainz, she fled the Nazis via France to exile in Mexico before returning to East Germany, where she led the writers' union.
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