Aimée Jaguar

A worldwide success The love story of Aimée & Jaguar"When you start reading, you never stop. This is how the unusual love story of Lilly and Felice reads so captivatingly: "The TagesspiegelIn the film adaptation by Max Färberböck based on this book with Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in the leading roles, the story of Aimée and Jaguar became known worldwide.Berlin 1942 Lilly Wust, 29, married, four children, leads the lives of millions of German women. But then she meets 21-year-old Felice Schragenheim, and it is love at first sight. Aimée & Jaguar make plans for the future, write poems and love letters to each other and sign a marriage contract. When Jaguar-Felice confesses to her lover that she is Jewish, this dangerous secret binds the two women even closer together. But their happiness is short-lived. On August 21, 1944, the Jewish woman Felice was arrested and deported, and Erica Fischer had the story told by 80-year-old Lilly Wust and turned it into a powerful testimony. After the book was published in 1994, more contemporary witnesses came forward and new material could be added in the present edition.