292 Reviews action of theplay is in a small hostelry bringing together a cross-section of citizenry. AsWerner notes, echoes ofHorvath and Fleisser abound with much sexual innuendo, twonear suicides, and characters called Adam and Eva. Following awareness of these threeplays, Welt iiberfuillt has recently come to light inNew York Public Library. By 1933Anna Gmeyner was not inNazi Germany but inFrance with G. W. Pabst. Recent research has demonstrated the extent of her input into the famous mining disaster filmKameradschaft. Werner's treatment ofGmeyner's filmwork with Pabst leads on smoothly into the next phase of her exile life. In Paris Gmeyner, long since divorced from Wiesner, met aRussian philosopher of religion called JaschaMorduch. They married and in 1935moved toEngland. Here Gmeyner worked on filmswith Berthold Viertel, especially The Passing of theThird Floor Back with Conrad Veidt, by then also an exile inEngland, and onViertel's filmversion ofToller's Pastor Hall. Significant toowas herwork with theBoulting brothers. Important though this film work was, itwas as nothing compared to theworldwide success of the Pabst film Kameradschaft, on which she had worked with Karl Otten, Peter Martin Lampel, and Herbert Rappaport. By 1934 the exilejournal Pariser Tageblatthad brought out not aGmeyner play but a narrative work calledMary Anna wartet, in fifteeninstalments. Then inLondon at theFree German League ofCulture Gmeyner read from a novel she had been writing. Manja, einRoman umfuinf Kinder appeared inAmsterdam in 1938.This German ver sionwas immediately followed byAmerican and English editions. Gmeyner's second novel, Cafe du Dome, suffered an unfortunate fate. Itwas published only inEnglish and theGerman original was lost. It is this English version which has now been republished. Where Manja was a so-called 'Deutschlandroman', showing the rise of National Socialism through theperspective of a Jewish girl and her four friends,Cafe duDome isamulti-perspective novel showing the febrile lifeof exiles inParis.Werner sees Cafe du Dome as pointing to something beyond political party concerns to faith, hope, and love. By the end Nadia is 'guterHoffnung': she ispregnant. After thedeath of her husband, Gmeyner continued towrite inEnglish, now mov ing into the literature of comparative religion.Werner lists,but does not discuss in detail, these lateworks, and has an even longer listof novels and plays byAnna Mor duch ofwhich there isno trace.Perhaps there are still Morduch/Gmeyner discoveries tobe made? Altogether Birte Werner is to be congratulated on her immaculate research into thisworthy author. INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES, LONDON J.M. RITCHIE Was wird mit uns geschehen? Tagebuicher der Internierung 1939 und 1940. By KURT STERN. Ed. by CHRISTIAN L6SER. Berlin: Aufbau. 2006. 231 PP. ?I8.90. ISBN 978-3-351-02624-0. Although the diaries which Kurt Stern kept during his two periods of internment in France (September-December 1939 and May-July 1940) may lack the powerful impact of others from the same period (Christa Wolf rightly speaks inher foreword of 'dieses wenig spektakulare Buch'), they do afford a fascinating insight into the mental landscape of a principled but undogmatic Communist struggling to come to termswith his unjust internment as an enemy alien, with themonotonous realities of camp life,and with alarming political events in theoutside world. Discovered in2000 after thedeath of his wife and now published in theirdaughter's translation from the French original, Stern's diaries reveal that,unlike, forexample, Lion Feuchtwanger, Bruno Frei, and Arthur Koestler, he has surprisingly little to say about living condi tions and the treatment of internees in the camps, in large part no doubt because life MLR, I03. I, 2oo8 293 inBlois, Villerbon, and Albi was far less harsh than inLe Vernet and Les Milles. He is much more preoccupied by the relativelymundane problem of living inuncomfort able proximity to individuals with whom he has little in common and forwhom he often feels unspoken contempt. Keeping a diary provides an outlet for such feelings as well as an opportunity to impose a structure on the otherwise shapeless lifeof an internee by recording and reflectingon his daily thoughts and experiences. The search for intellectual stimulation through intensive reading, piano lessons, chess, the learning of English, and endless discussions is punctuated by a number ofmoral issueswhich focus on lifeoutside the camp and present a...