novels deal with the victims of the Holocaust: Jakob der Lügner, Der Boxer, and Bronsteins Kinder. Jakob der Lügner remains his most successful work. Jakob der Lügner (1969) Irreführung der Behörden (1973) Der Boxer (1976) (1978) Nach der ersten Zukunft (1980) – short story collection (1982) Bronsteins Kinder (1986) Amanda herzlos (1992) Warnung von dem Schiftsteller (1990) – lectures Liebling Kreuzberg (1986 and 1988) – TV series In English translation (1986) Jacob the Liar (1990) Bronstein's Children (1999) The Boxer (2002) My Father, the Germans and I (2010) Filmography Jacob the Liar, directed by Frank Beyer (1975, based on the novel Jacob the Liar) The Boxer, directed by (1980, TV film, based on the novel The Boxer) Sleepless Days, directed by (1982, TV film, based on the novel ) , directed by Andreas Dresen (1991, short film, loosely based on the story Romeo) , directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1991, based on the novel Bronstein's Children) Sleepless Days, directed by Gabriele Denecke (1991, TV film, based on the novel ) Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen, directed by Frank Beyer (1995, TV film, based on the story Die Mauer) Jakob the Liar, directed by Peter Kassovitz (1999, based on the novel Jacob the Liar) Screenwriter Ohne Pass in fremden Betten (dir. Vladimír Brebera, 1965) Jungfer, Sie gefällt mir (dir. Günter Reisch, 1969) (dir. , 1970) Jacob the Liar (dir. Frank Beyer, 1975) (dir. Frank Beyer, 1977/78) David (dir. Peter Lilienthal, 1979) Liebling Kreuzberg (1986–1998, TV series) The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (dir. Thomas Brasch, 1988) (dir. , 1990) (dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1991) Wir sind auch nur ein Volk (1994–1995, TV series) Wenn alle Deutschen schlafen (dir. Frank Beyer, 1995, TV film) References Notes Bibliography . . 1937 births 1997 deaths Writers from Łódź East German writers Łódź Ghetto inmates Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors Heinrich Mann Prize winners 20th-century Polish Jews Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German people of Polish-Jewish descent Deaths from colorectal cancer Deaths from cancer in Germany 20th-century German novelists German male novelists Jewish concentration camp survivors 20th-century German male writers Polish emigrants to East Germany Members of the German Academy for Language and Literature