Rosa Sala Rose

To be born in a Mediterranean city like Barcelona (Spain) from a German mother is a kind of fate you never get rid of. You speak a second language that nobody else around you understands and you are as blond and blue-eyed as any other tourist, so every waiter hands you out the menu in English and pickpockets follow you with their eyes. As I was a teenager I decided that I wanted to understand what lies behind these language and genes that life imposed on me. That's why I graduated in German Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona, since later on I made a PhD in Romanic Philology on an ancient Greek subject: "Civilisation and Barbarism at the Medea-myth". (The Mediterranean was calling me back, I guess!).

Afterwards I devoted myself to literary translation and to the editing of German classic literature (especially Goethe and Thomas Mann), where I learned a lot about the highlights of German culture. But then I became increasingly interested in the German shadows, so I did some research on Nazism, considered from the perspective of the history of mentalities. Four historical essays came out of this new approach of mine to Germany, so far. (I am currently writing the fifth!). You can find them all listed below.

All these books are published in Spanish and available in Amazon. The only translation into English so far has been "Lili Marleen. Biography of a song", that has been recently released as E-book (see below).