The Oppermanns

The Oppermanns
In the first edition of the novel (1933), the name of the family was changed into Oppenheim
AuthorLion Feuchtwanger
Original titleDie Geschwister Oppermann
TranslatorJames Cleugh
LanguageGerman
SeriesWartesaal
GenrePolitical novel, family saga
PublisherQuerido Verlag
Publication date
1933
Publication placeGermany / France / Netherlands
OCLC774592110
Preceded bySuccess (1930) 
Followed byExil (1940) 

The Oppermanns (German: Die Geschwister Oppermann) is a 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger. It is the second novel in his Wartesaal ("The Waiting Room") trilogy, which tells about the rise of Nazism in Germany; the first part of the trilogy is Success (1930) and the last is Exil (1940). In the same year when the novel was written, in 1933, the Nazis fully came into power, and the author published the novel already in exile.