Deborah Holmes
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128 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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There are no balanced gender relations involved.
There are no colleagues or comrades of different sexes.
Either the women are much more powerful than the men somehow, or they are a long way below them and they need support.
They're either protecting the men or they need protecting.
There's nothing, there's no balance in between.
And it's an obvious temptation to equate these literary figures with the women in Roth's life, if I can lump them together like that.
So his wife, Friedel, whom he married in 1922, was an acquaintance from a coffee house in Vienna, very typically for Roth.
We haven't talked about bars or coffee houses yet.
He spent most of his life and where he did a lot of his writing as well, of course.
He learned Friedel from one cafe table to the next.
She was the daughter of a shopkeeper in Vienna's Jewish district.
Very pretty, as we can see from the photos.
And they married when they were both still very young.
She was six years younger than him.
And he does not...
prevent the marriage, doesn't let the marriage prevent him from living the life that he wishes to lead as a travelling journalist.
Yes and no.
It quite often is said of Roth that he never had a flat, that he never had a home, that he never settled.
I think that he twice shared a flat, once with Friedel and once with a later partner, Andrea Mangebelle.
in Berlin.
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