All That I Am (2011) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Ruth Wesemann: Add a description of this character.
• Mr Ernst Toller
• Dr Dora Fabian: Ruth's cousin
• Hans Wesemann
• Clara Bergdorf
• Mathilde Wurm
• Rudi Formis
• Christiane Grautoff
• Wolfram Wolf
• Erwin Thomas
• Walter Fabian
• Mrs Allworth
• Else
• MARGARET PEARCE
• Werner Hitzemeyer
• Paul
• Marinus van der Lubbe
• Herr Benesch
• Kurt Eisner
• Bev
• Dr Lipp
• Mother
• Bertie
• Ada
• Albert Grzesinski
• Melnikoff
• Lord Marley
• Trudy Winmore
• Paula
• Ernst Röhm
• Kurt von Schleicher
• Herr Dr Goebbels
• Mattern
• Wieland
• Michael
• Berthold Jacob
• Johannes Alois Wesemann
• Seymour Cocks
• Mrs Eleanora Franklin
• Joseph
• Albert Einstein
• Theodor Lessing
• Jaeger
• Mrs Roosevelt
• Adolf Hitler
• Fenner Brockway
• Hannah Arendt
• Constable Hall
• Helmut Goldschmidt
• Mr Donovan
• John of Nepomuk
• Eugen Brehm
• Hugo
• Carl von Ossietzky
• W. H. Auden
• Goethe
• Roy Ganz
• Edgar Reiz
• Otto Lehmann-Russbüldt

Quotes edit see section history

• “My father's deathbed (and his lifelong) aggression created in me a strange pathology of responsibility. Aside from the privileges of class, that is how I came to feel it was up to me to fix things. Because otherwise, it was all my fault.”

  Toller

• “I knew there were two parts of me, the public man and the private being, and they would not, ever, quite fit back together.”

  Toller

• “When you are in love with someone, you cannot see around them, you cannot get their human measure. You cannot see how someone so huge to you, so miraculous and unfathomable, can fit complete, into that small skin.”

  Toller

• “For me there was no going back from Dora; every other woman was less than real. She gave me access to things my striving nature would not otherwise have let me see; things my vanity would have kept from me. Without her, I was only half the man, and half the writer.”

  Toller

• “It is only when your beloved leaves you that you realise the stake is gone, and where they were there is only cold air, with nothing to hold you up.”

  Toller

• “Our love was like a carpenter's spirit level, each of us holding an end up so hard, fighting to keep that trembling bubble in sight.”

  Toller

• “I am a vessel of memory ina world of forgetting”

  Ruth

• “Mathilde had been a stalwart politician, but standing by the door in her sensible shoes and with her basket of supplies, she gave the impression that what our movement most needed now was correct feeding and clothing, after which changing the world would naturally follow.”

  Ruth

• “Eventually I slept before he did, the brittle, lonely sleep of half a bed”

  Ruth

• “Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

  Toller

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Berlin
• London
• Paris
• Munich
• Great Ormond Street
• Strasbourg
• Konigsdorf
• Bondi Junction

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Anna Funder (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Australian Book Industry Awards (2012: Book of the Year)
• Australian Book Industry Awards (2012: Literary Fiction Book of the Year)
• Barbara Jefferis Award (2012)
• Indie Award (2012: Debut Fiction)
• Indie Award (2012: Independent Book of the Year)
• Miles Franklin Literary Award (2012)
• National Jewish Book Awards (Finalist, 2012: Outstanding Debut Fiction / Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Goldberg Prize)

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Political
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature