Square of the Imperial Chancellor

Who was Magda Goebbels? How did the adopted daughter of a Jewish merchant become a staunch Nazi and the model mother of the Third Reich? This novel by the German writer Nora Bossong is based on real events and portrays a quarter-century of German history between 1919–1944 through a dual portrait of Magda Goebbels and her young lover, Hans Kesselbach. They grew close when Magda was seeking an escape from her unhappy marriage to the industrialist Günther Quandt, and Hans was trying to hide his homosexuality. Life soon took them in different directions; Magda married Goebbels and shone from the front pages of propaganda magazines, while Hans teetered on the brink before the gates of Nazi hell… “A novel about the creeping decay of democracy.” Norddeutscher Rundfunk “A novel about complicity and how great evil grows from small evils.” Daniel Kehlmann, author of one of the best novels of 2025, Lichtspiel