Anja Lundholm

Anja Lundholm, popularly known by her pen names Ann Berkeley and Alf Lindström, was a German novelist and holocaust survivor.

Biography

Lundholm was the daughter of Erich Erdtmann, a German pharmacist from Krefeld and a member of the Schutzstaffel, and Elisabeth Blumenthal, who came from a wealthy Jewish family of bankers in Darmstadt. In the years 1936–1939 she studied in Berlin.
In 1941, she fled to Italy with the help of forged papers and established relations with members of the resistance movement in Rome. Arrested, in March 1944, she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She managed to escape from the death march and ended up in the British army in Lüneburg with the help of the Red Cross. After the war, she worked as a translator and journalist for the British press.
Lundholm authored several books, including the memoirs Das Höllentor that narrates her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp from spring 1944 until escape in early May 1945.

Awards and honors

1970: Kulturpreis of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
1986: Förderpreis of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
1991: Special Prize for the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize
1993: Johanna Kirchner Medaille
1997: Hans Sahl Preis for Das Höllentor
1998: BDS Literature Prize
1998: Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
1998: Wilhelm-Leuschner Medal
2003: Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis

Publications

Novels

Autobiographical novels

Halb und halb Morgengrauen Der Grüne Jene Tage in Rom Geordnete Verhältnisse Die äußerste Grenze Das Höllentor

''Im Netz''

Solo novels

Ich liebe mich, liebst du mich auch? as Ann Berkeley.Zerreißprobe Nesthocker Mit Ausblick zum See

''Narziß postlagernd''

Translations

as Alf Lindström

Peter Baker, Das große Spiel
Peter Baker, Privatklinik Valetudo
Richard Beilby, Keinen Orden für Aphrodite
Gordon Thomas, ''Die Feuerwolke''

as herself

Mala Rubinstein, ''Schön und charmant mit Mala Rubinstein''