Summary of Death in DanzigÂ
“Death in Danzig” tells the story of Hanemann, a retired German anatomy professor in Gdansk (Danzig in German), who chooses to stay in the city at the end of the Second World War despite seeing most other Germans fleeing in fear of the approaching Soviet army.
Reasons to read Death in Danzig
“Death in Danzig” offers an insightful depiction of the old German culture in the Polish port town of Gdansk and the transformations that occurred after the German inhabitants fled in 1945 and were replaced by people from eastern Poland displaced by the Russians. The novel provides an intriguing portrayal of the lives of ordinary people in Gdansk under both Nazi and Soviet rule. “Death in Danzig” by Polish novelist Stefan Chwin won the 1995 Polityka-passport prize, a cultural award presented by the Polish Polityka magazine.
Setting: Gdansk-Danzig (Poland)
Original title: Hanemann
Year of publication: 1995
Nr of pages: 272
