"Life ultimately means nothing other than: taking responsibility [...] for fulfilling the tasks that life presents to each individual." (Viktor E. Frankl)

At the age of 35, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl was sent to a concentration camp. During his years of captivity, he learned how people cope with unimaginable suffering and how it is possible to find meaning in life even in places of the greatest inhumanity.

After his liberation, he wrote this moving account of his experiences in the concentration camps of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Türkheim in just nine days.

In the following decades, the book became a classic of survival literature, providing comfort and guidance to generations of readers. Translated into over fifty languages, it offers a fascinating and still deeply moving exploration of human willpower.

This high-quality new edition presents the original text in the new German spelling for the first time, along with a new foreword by Ariadne von Schirach.