Die Protestantin (German Edition)

Love in the times of political upheavals – three women searching for happiness. Kaiserswerth, 1822. When 17-year-old Johanne meets the strong-willed protestant minister Theodor Fliedner, she is filled with awe and admiration. A marriage with him seems imminent. Yet when he asks for her hand, something else is more important to her: her freedom. Twenty years later, her sister Catherine loses the man she loves to the revolutionary struggles for liberty. It is only Magdalena, her foster daughter, who three decades later seems to be able to find the balance between freedom, faith and love, thus realising Johanne’s dream … From her fascinating historical research, Gina Mayer presents in this, her first novel, a portrait of the life and customs of the 19th century. Press PressOpinions Author Gina Mayer, born in 1965, works as a copywriter. Her idea to write a novel came to her as she was walking along Friederike Fliedner Street in Kaiserswerth. “At first the name was nothing to me. But after some historical research, I became fascinated with the Fliedners and their life work, the founding of the deaconess houses.”