Talk:The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

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Someone Please make use of the English translation to fill in the gaps of the synopsis!!

I've overhauled the entry with information from the German article, and filled in other parts with my memory of the story and, failing that, my copy of the book. I wasn't too sure of the translation that was up here before, if it was a machine translation or what, and it didn't really seem to correspond with the German article, so I wrote my own translation from my copy of the book. I hope this is an acceptable quality for the article, and have removed the 'tidy up' tag that was in the article. If it still isn't the acceptable quality for Wikipedia, feel free to add it again. (Maaya 00:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Its alot better however, this is based on the German copy of the book. Should english wikipedia entries be based on the english translations of the books or the original copies? (Pichu1988)

I only have the German book.  :( If you happen to have the English translation, or if anyone else does, I think they could fix things. But, unless I translated something very wrong, the meaning should be the same. (Maaya 17:50, 24 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

I could be wrong, but I recently saw this film and glanced over the book, and if I recall correctly, Ludwig is actually not a bank robber (though he's suspected/accused of such). He's a deserter who stole some money from the army, but he didn't rob any banks, and he isn't a terrorist.

Also - the intro to this article says that Die Zeitung is modeled after the Bild-Zeitung in Germany. It may be semantics... yet at the end of the film there is a disclaimer which says something along the lines of, "If the fictional Die Zeitung bears some resemblance to the methods of the Bild-Zeitung, this is neither intentional nor accidental, but rather, unavoidable."

Ergo it's not a model, exactly.

That's fairly minor, though... mainly just wanted to raise the question about Ludwig. —The preceding

As for the disclaimer, I think it served 3 purposes: a.) To make clear what Böll was referring to, b.) to safeguard himself against a smear campaign from BILD ("neither intentional"), and c.) I interpret the "unavoidable" bit as that Böll was trying to make people aware of the overall structures, or structural bias, of a society that facilitates the existence of tabloids such as BILD. --79.193.41.248 (talk) 19:32, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please split. Imho, it's no good having the same article for film and for a book. The film is notable, as also it's directors (

As people have already noticed, the previous plot summary was not in fact a summary of the book (presumably it referred to the film, though I haven't seen that). I've replaced it with a brief, but at least accurate, summary of the book. There are some things which could still be added, though we don't want to make it too long. Henry^Flower 16:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw a screening of the film with several friends at Stanford an hour ago. (Boy was that emotionally draining.) None of us remember any mention of a bank robbery, just that he was a deserter who'd stolen some money. Anyone have any evidence to support Wikipedia's statement about robbing a bank? Vaughan Pratt (talk) 05:00, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]