Marie-Louise Fischer

The contemporary German writer Marie Louise Fischer has achieved great success with her novels about family and everyday life. Some of her works have been published in large editions. She does not owe her success to any secret formula. She simply translates true life destinies into literary form. She captures these destinies at crucial moments, when an exceptional situation, war, illness or conflict with the law, sharpens insight into the overall meaning of all the hopes, beliefs and loves of her heroes. Therefore, the reader of this undoubtedly entertaining read finds here something more than entertainment; he meets familiar characters who, like themselves, are driven between the longing for happiness and duty, between love and unfortunate circumstances, between the aspiration for freedom and necessity.