Deborah Holmes
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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So there were attempts at domesticity, but they never lasted for long and they were always very strained.
It's an extremely sad story and it must have been very, very, very stressful and tragic for Roth himself.
Friedel becomes increasingly, at first he thinks increasingly unable to cope with the life travelling around, with moving so often, with living out of a suitcase.
And then it becomes clear that she is mentally unstable and she is taken into psychiatric care, I think already from 1925, 26 onwards.
I think she's not in care at that point, but at the end of the 20s, yes.
And she then remains in care until the end of her life, although care becomes a misnomer.
As under the Nazis in 1940, she is then murdered as a long-term psychiatric patient in Hartheim in Upper Austria, in one of the parts of the Nazis' so-called T4 programme to kill psychiatric patients and the mentally unfit.
In some of his... I'm not sure if that's a good... I'm not sure about the work, certainly repeatedly in the letters.
Well, I mean, he was, as we said, a highly functional alcoholic, but very definitely a terminal alcoholic.
And that had been clear for a long time.
I mean, I sometimes wonder whether it stemmed from the war years, from the First World War, because, I mean, as we know, on both sides of the front, you know, soldiers were being...
with alcohol to make the war possible at all.
I mean, that might well be part of the roots of his heavy drinking.
Then later on, I think it's partly because of the lifestyle.
He's having to keep deadlines.
He's up late at night.
He's living in hotels and bars.
Drink is readily available.
It's also part of the sort of journalistic camaraderie, inviting people for drinks.
And then comes Friedel and the marriage and the problems and the feelings of guilt and having to earn also to support Friedel and her care.
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