大象传媒

I have recently become a grandmother. Both my children live in New Zealand and I have lived in this country since 1960.
There was a lot of prejudice about Germany when I first arrived here, but the individual people were very kind and loving. I have found, that the ordinary people in a country are not actually for war and do not hate other nations. It is politics which make war, and propaganda which makes people think they have to go to war and fight.
When my children started to go to school, they came home with questions about the war and what my family did, their relatives in Germany. There were ackward questions their friends were asking. So I decided to write this book, "The Dark Edge of the Rainbow", to answer all their questions. The book was written not with hindsight, but exactly as I experienced the war when I was a child. I did not want anything to enter into the book which I had learned later about the war, just the way it was for me.
I started my working life in Germany as an agricultural apprentice and went to agricultural college and after 4 years went to Finland to practice, England and Ireland. On my return to Germany I changed my mind, because my male colleages always got the job first. I went to Business college and then worked for Lufthansa in London, Old Bond Street for many years until the birth of my daughter.
I went back to work when my 2 Children were of school age and worked until my retirement and am in my second marriage to an absolute english man.
I paint in watercolours and I do etching and printing and every now and then I have a little exhibition.
My children have chosen to live in New Zealand when they were adults, because their father came from there. They have dual nationality and have their own businesses there.
I visit them often, as often as my resorces allow, and I love the country. I love England but most of all and deep in my heart, I love Germany.