Klett-Cotta Verlag 2009

Among the notoriously unsuccessful experiments of contemporary writers are various efforts to reinvent how historical figures experienced their lives and perceived their own worlds. The results tend to be either sentimental or strained and dutiful exercises. Not so with Brigitte Kronauer who in a chapter of her latest novel Two Black Hunters gives center stage to one of the most remarkable women of the late 17th and early 18th centuries--the Duchess of Königsmarck, mistress of August the Strong and later provost of the diocese of Quedlinburg. ...