Rosamund Fischer’s Real Name

A literary debut inspired by true events by one of Italy’s most promising screenwriters.

In the suburbs of Washington D.C. lives an elderly woman who has erased her past until a call from a journalist forces her to reckon with her true identity.

Born in 1933, Inge Brigitte, her alias Rosamund Fischer, grew up in a villa in Poland, a “little paradise,” where the pavilions and the prisoners of Auschwitz, existed right under her nose.  She and her siblings did not know the maids, the gardener, the seamstresses, and the barber were all prisoners. And they did not know their father, Rudolf Höss was the commander of Aushwitz. In this cat and mouse game with the journalist, she claims she was unaware of the sounds around her and the role her father played. But Rosamund Fischer has lied before. She has lied to her husband, her children, and she lies to herself.

In 1947, Rudolph Hoess was tried and hanged in Poland. Inge Brigitte moved to Spain, became a model for Balenciaga and then changed her name. She might have forgiven her father, like her mother whom she nurtured towards the end of her life, but we will never know. There is no changing history, so she rewrote her own.

A novelized first-person reconstruction of the life of the daughter of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolph Hoess. To date, all we know of her upbringing lies in a single, disturbing interview she gave in 2015.

“My whole life, I deluded myself that no one would ever discover my secret.
But one day, the past found me, and I was forced to recognize the secrets
I had kept from everyone, including myself.”

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France (Presses de la Cité)