Word: katharina
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...narrator of Group Portrait admitted that he was a persona from the beginning, stated plainly that he was "the Au." and not some imperious ego-less reporter. The Au. said candidly that he was too fond of Leni; while the poor, nameless narrator in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum repressed all affection for his heroine, denied his own "psyche" until he broke with exasperation at the way his story had eluded his control on page 98 ("Too much is happening in this story"). One would rather trust the unashamed lust of the Au. for his main character which finally...
Boll's problem is that this faith in the fact-crazed reporter appears to fade in Boll's latest publication, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Here again, a woman, but not even a woman whose whole life the reporter hopes to track down in 400 pages. Just five days!--from February 20 to February 24, 1974--just five days is all he wants to know about the life of Katharina Blum. Yet even this knowledge is impossible to extract, despite detailed police records and the personal testimony of the woman involved, a woman who, at the end of that...
...fruitful for the sentimental devotee of Leni. The facts are what he is after, he tells us, but he is confused. It all begins clearly enough; each chapter is so short as to contain just a few positive assertions of facts in the case, and it is established that Katharina Blum, at the beginning of these five days, slept with a man who was wanted for murder. Duly it is stated, too, that under police interrogation, Katherina shows herself to have been ignorant of her lover's legal status. But from then until Katherina's murder of the newspaperman...
...television interview in London to Dick Cavett. He clearly relished showing off a souvenir of his long movie career: an arrow wound on his left shin from the filming in 1956 of Richard III, but the old veteran was feeling his years when Cavett asked how he would play Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, as he did when he was 15. Olivier, 65, quickly replied: "I'd play it older...
Born. To Princess Birgitta, 26, onetime gym teacher, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf; and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 30, archaeology student: their second child, first daughter; in Munich. Name: Désirée Margarethe Victoria Louise Sybilla Katharina Maria...