Novel Characters - Lotika Zellermeier, Manik Mulla (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lotika Zellermeier (Cyrillic:, Serbian Latin: Lotika Cilermajer) (1860, Krakw, Poland 1938, Viegrad, Yugoslavia) was the inspiration for the main character from the 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andris novel The Bridge on the Drina. She is the oldest of three sisters Zellermeier who moved, at the end of the 19th century, to Bosnia from Krakw, Poland. Little is known about Lotikas childhood and early adulthood. She was married to a doctor in Krakw but his identity is not known today. He died when Lotika was 19 years old. Soon after her husbands death, Lotika moved with her sisters to Viegrad, Bosnia, then Austrian Hungarian Empire. At the same time two other Jewish families, Zaller and Apfelmeier, moved from Krakw to Viegrad. Their destinies will inseparably entwine in the coming years. Even she was widowed at such an early age, Lotika never married again and had no descendants. A bit more is known about Lotikas life after she moved to Bosnia. In Viegrad she worked as a manager of the Zur Brucke hotel, commonly known as Lotikas Hotel among the locals. The owner of the hotel was husband of her sister Debora, Adolf Zaller. While she was managing the hotel, one of the regulars was Ivo Andri. The two of them built a close relationship over the years. Ina and Helena congratulated Ivo Andri on the Nobel Prize in 1961. He kindly responded thanking them (from the Svetlana Davidovac-urovi archive)Ivo Andri has spent his childhood, youth and early adulthood in Viegrad and he enjoyed spending time in Lotikas Hotel . Having established a close relationship with Lotika, he used her and her family as a basis for many of the characters in his novel The Bridge on the Drina. When he won Nobel Prize for literature in 1961, 23 years after Lotikas death, her... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=22853240