JOHO WOLFGANG The story of a journey. Translation: EWA SICIÑSKA [handwritten dedication and drawing of the translator's cats to Zbigniew Swiech].

WARSAW 1971, PIW, pp. 192, dimensions 11 x 18, softcover with wrapper. On the pre-title page a handwritten dedication by the Translator together with a drawing for Zbigniew Swiech, year 1971.
JOHO WOLFGANG (1908 - 1991) was expelled from Heidelberg University in 1933 "for communist activities," and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937 for illegal activity on behalf of the KPD. Joho was sentenced to three years in prison. In 1943, Joho was called up to the Wehrmacht's 999th Penal Battalion. Joho was taken prisoner by the British , who held him in Egypt and Britain before he returned to Germany in 1946. Wolfgang Joho's work mainly includes novels, short stories and essays . A frequent theme is the evolution of bourgeois intellectuals and humanists into anti-fascists and communists.