Helga Schneider (Steinberg, Poland, 1937) moved with his family to Berlin, where he spent the war years. The family fell apart when the mother left home to join the ranks of the SS. Helga lived his youth in Austria and in 1963 settled in Bologna. Since then Italy is its adoptive homeland and Italian its language. He has published Il rogo di Berlino, La porta di Brandenburg, Il piccolo Adolf no aveva le ciglia, Lasciami andare, madre !, Stelle di cannella, L'usignolo dei Linke and L'albero di Goethe. In Spanish have been published: Let me go, mother and No sky over Berlin.