Uta Gosselck-Perschmann reads passages from the diaries that the well-known Swedish children's author kept during the Second World War.
Years before her children's books were written, Astrid Lindgren recorded her thoughts on the darkest chapter of the 20th century in her diaries. She describes her everyday life in neutral Sweden, documents and comments on war news, newspaper reports and letters. Thoughtful and concerned, but also with her unmistakable tone, Astrid Lindgren poses important questions in her diaries that are frighteningly topical today: What is good and what is evil? What can we do when xenophobia and racism dominate people's thoughts and actions? The diaries provide a fascinating insight into the decisive years of the famous writer. In addition to the immediate events of the war, she talks about her family life and her first attempts at writing. In 1944, she gave her daughter the manuscript of Pippi Longstocking for her birthday.
