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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriagedi Anja Reich-Osang
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I feel badly calling a true crime book forgettable. There's an implication that the victim, in this case, Brigitte Scholl, was forgettable, which seems a heartless assertion. But, really, The Scholl Case is not much more than a newspaper article run long. It's interesting in a mildly benign way, somewhat infuriating in that Brigitte Scholl is definitely presented more in a bitches be crazy style than her husband Heinrich, who frequents sex-workers, cheats on his wife, abandons a child born out of wedlock -- so it's hardly like he's an upstanding gentleman either. But while Brigitte's flaws are hammered home almost to the point of inanity, Heinrich's get side aside with a shrug. Oh well the book seems to say Product of his upbringing. Because, clearly, Brigitte just sprung up fully formed in the GDR fully formed with no outside influences whatsoever *rolls eyes*. So there's no grand reveal here. No new evidence. Even Reich-Osang's interactions with Heinrich are bland, polite letters and visits where nothing much happens. The Scholl Case is refreshingly un-lurid for a true crime book, but that makes it seem more academic than anything else, and, in a sense, a bit purposeless. The Scholl Case by Anja Reich-Osang went on sale December 29, 2016. I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A woman is brutally murdered and buried in the woods. Suspicion falls on her husband - the former mayor of a small town south of Berlin. They had been married almost 50 years and were considered the perfect couple.Award-winning journalist Anja Reich-Osang covered the trial. She spoke with relatives and friends of the victim and the accused - and with the former mayor himself, who denies his guilt to this day. But there is more to this story than the question of innocence or guilt. The Scholl Case is about a marriage, about a small town, about sex and politics. It is a psychological profile of a man driven to succeed - a man who started with nothing, conquered the world, and then lost all he had gained. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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She was a pretty, pampered daughter of comfortably off parents in the former E Germany. He was poor and unloved by his mother. He was a hanger on around this ideal family. When she found herself an abandoned single mother, he married her....it seems, for convenience.
Heinrich Scholl.....quiet, clever, diligent...rises up the career ladder. His wife runs a beauty salon, expects his total obedience at all times....and puts on a show for her friends.
With the end of his career and the long empty days of retirement, Heinrich seems to be going off the rails...a flat, a mercenary Thai girlfriend....even as he continues to play the ideal husband at his wife's social gatherings. Then one day, Brigitte Scholl is found strangled and buried in the forest, along with her dog...
The way it's written certainly does leave one feeling more sympathy for nice, likeable Heinrich, a 70 year old in jail, than the rather unpleasant wife. And yet he could have just left her...
But highly readable. ( )