Thomas Harlan was born in 1929. As a child he met both Hitler and Goebbels, and during World War Two served as a leader in the Hitler Marine youth corps. After completing his schooling in Germany, he moved to Paris in 1948, where he studied philosophy. He has written poetry and drama in both French and German, and written and directed many successful films, in particular Torre Bela, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976, and Wundkanal, at the Berlin Film Festival in 1985. He first visited the site of the little-known Polish concentration camp in Kulmhof in 1959. It is on this, and his subsequent research in Poland, Germany, France and Italy, that this novel is based. Rosa is his first prose work in German. Translation rights available from Eichborn AG Kaiserstrasse 66 D-60329 Frankfurt am Main Tel: 0049 69 25 60 03 20 Fax: 0049 69 25 60 03 30 Applications for assistance with translation costs - Germany Eichborn Verlag and Eichborn Berlin In 1980 Vito von Eichborn founded a new publishing house with a list including international fiction, politics and humour. The humour list was an immediate success, making it possible to develop a strong and diverse fiction and non-fiction list. The Eichborn Berlin list specialises in young German authors and includes books by Urs Richle, Jan Peter Bremer, Judith Kuckart and Michael Roes.