Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke (1888-1978) chronicled her eventful life for forty-three years: The
brief marriage to August Macke the marriage to the journalist Lothar Erdmann the turbulent
1920s in Bonn and Berlin the seizure of power and Erdmann's gruesome death at the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp the years of the war and the return to Bonn. As executor of
Macke's estate she wrote a bestseller in 1962 with Erinnerung an August Macke and her
Begegnungen was published posthumously in 2009. Her touching Tagebücher which are now being
published for the first time are a minor sensation. The complete text documentation also
accompanies the book as a CD.
