{"product_id":"9781917378055","title":"Sanderling","description":"Author: Anne Weber\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781917378055\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Indigo Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jan 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe past lies before us as a foreign, distant land.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSanderling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis a personal journey of exploration into the past, and the fascinating world of Florens Christian Rang (1864-1924), written by his great grand-daughter Anne Weber, one of Germany's leading contemporary authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRang, whom Weber nicknames Sanderling after the darting shorebird, began as a Protestant pastor stationed near Poznan in modern-day Poland, then part of Prussia. The church, which he subsequently abandoned, had a mission to 'Germanise' the local population. Weber draws parallels between this apparently benign ambition and the subsequent murderous intent of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his apostasy Sanderling became friends with several great early-twentieth-century thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Martin Buber. It was during this time he joined a group of writers, artists and philosophers with whom he hoped to create a utopian society. Later on, his own son  Weber's grandfather  became a Nazi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Weber traces the contradictions and crises, the reckonings and departures of her great-grandfather by deciphering his letters and diaries, and travelling in his footsteps to Poland. Through the thicket of time and research, complex questions arise: how do you live with a history that you can't escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith literary and philosophical references including Sontag, Sebald and Nietzsche, Weber combines her family history with a broader examination of ethics and morality to create a travel diary through time, reaching back to understand her ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861488357534,"sku":"ADS-9781917378055","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781917378055.jpg?v=1779252674","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781917378055","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}