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Reunion

by Fred Uhlmanliterary work· published 1986

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Reunion (originally written in English) is a novella by Fred Uhlman, set in 1933 in Germany. The novella was first published in 1971 in an edition of 700, plus 50 hors commerce signed and numbered by the author. The Penguin edition includes the information that the novella was written in 1960 and was Uhlman's first work of fiction. Born in Stuttgart in 1901, the author worked as a lawyer in Germany, before fleeing the Nazis in 1933, moving to France, where he was a painter, then Spain, and by 1936 settled in the United Kingdom.

Adaptations (1)

Reunion was adapted into a 1989 film.

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    Reunion
    1989 · film · 110 min · dir. Jerry Schatzberg · IMDb ↗
    IMDb6.9

    Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.