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To say Edith Stein lived a remarkable life would be a dramatic understatement. Born in Breslau (then part of Germany) at the end of the 19th century, Edith was raised as an observant jew, only to turn her back on religion right around the time World War I devastated the continent. In the wake of the war, during which she earned a doctorate and began working as an assistant at the University of Freiburg, she began reading the works of the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila, one of the most influential Catholic saints in history.

Saint Edith Stein was born in Poland on October 12, 1891. Her parent were Jewish. She was a brilliant student. When she turned seventeen, she entered a Girl's High School in Breslau. At the same time, in another part of Germany, another teenager - Adolph Hitler was failing an entrance exam to the Academy of Arts and already blaming it all on the Jews. Two teenagers, one a Saint and the other damned to hell for all eternity.

Edith Stein, Jewish woman, Catholic nun, and philosopher: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Edith Stein, Jüdin, Christin, Philosophin, Nonne und Heilige: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

Christwerden und Christsein mit Edith Stein. Edith Stein (1891-1942) gehört ohne Zweifel zu den beeindruckendsten Persönlichkeiten des zurückliegenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Philosophin und Frauenrechtlerin konvertierte 1922 vom Judentum zum Christentum und trat elf Jahre später, 1933, in den Karmelitenorden ein. Am 09. Aug. 1942 wurde sie im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau ermordet. Die katholische Kirche verehrt Edith Stein als Heilige. Sie ist Patronin Europas.

Ficción dramática que presenta a Edith Stein en su tremenda trayectoria de vida que resume las características esenciales de la máxima tragedia del Siglo XX: el nazismo.

Una donna. Che nasce ebrea e muore in quanto ebrea e sarà santificata dalla Chiesa cattolica. Che diventa l'allieva prediletta di uno dei più grandi filosofi del Novecento e a cui verrà negata la carriera accademica. Che si impegna per i diritti delle donne e si farà suora di clausura. Una vita sempre in prima linea: dalle aule universitarie agli ospedali da campo della prima guerra mondiale, dalla scelta appassionata della conversione all'orrore di Auschwitz. Edith Stein è un luminosissimo enigma, una storia di una chiarezza cristallina che getta ombre in ogni direzione, mutevoli

Begeben sie sich mit diesem Hörbuch auf die Spuren der großen philosophischen Denker. Hartmut Sommer nimmt sie mit auf eine spannende geistesgeschichtliche Entdeckungsreise, bei der sie Berge erklimmen, Orte erkunden und Wege begehen, die das Denken berühmter Philosophen wie Albertus Magnus, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche oder Edith Stein beeinflussten.