Peggy Parnass

[1][2] Born in Hamburg in 1927, she was the daughter of Herta Emanuel, who was half Portuguese, and Simon, a Polish Jew.

Parnass tells the story of her childhood in Unter die Haut (1983) and in Kindheit (2014), illustrated by Tita do Rêgo Silva.

[1] Although she had vowed never to live in Germany again, after returning to Hamburg to visit her cousin, she met many interesting left-wing antifascists and decided to stay.

For 17 years, she worked for the magazine Konkret, where she reported on the proceedings of the Berlin law courts.

Her work forms the basis of her widely acclaimed Prozesse (Trials), published in 1978, for which she received the Joseph Drexel Prize in 1979 for outstanding achievements in journalism.