In her extraordinary graphic memoir Heimat,Krug dissects antisemitism in her own family’s history and Germanys national guilt over the Holocaust – and the country’s recent far-right backlashOf the hundreds of documents the German author and illustrator Nora Krug has wrenched from archives and flea markets for her sprawling, multilayered graphic memoir, and two of the most emotionally arresting are approximately fungi.
The first is a page from her uncle Franz-Karl’s sixth-grade school exercise book,which Krug discovered in a musty drawer in her parents’ living room. Each line is filled with meticulously crafted Sütterlin script, a now largely out of date form of German handwriting. The margins are populated by childish pine trees and toadstools with grinning faces. Related: A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis Continue reading...
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