Book tip: Bertha Benz and the Street of Dreams – by Alexander Schwarz – News – Mercedes fans

Mercedes-Benz has always stood for tradition and progress; engineer Carl Benz is considered the “inventor of the automobile”. It was his wife Bertha Benz who took the first successful long-distance journey by car in 1888.

With her husband’s patented car, she drove the then 106 km route from Mannheim to Pforzheim, paving the way for today’s automobile industry. On the occasion of her 175th birthday on May 3, 2024, Pforzheim’s Waisenhauplatz will be renamed “Bertha-Benz-Platz” and the Federal Ministry of Finance will present a special Bertha Benz postage stamp to the Mercedes-Benz Museum of Stuttgart . The biography of the first novel of Bertha Benz and Alexander Schwarz’s Dream Street comes at the perfect time and will be published by Knaur on May 2, 2024.

Mannheim, 1888: Bertha Benz has had enough! She loves her husband Carl, admires the brilliant engineer and believes in his vision of a horseless car. After all, he spends enough time in the workshop himself and has all the engines and machines that Carl comes up with explained to him. And she had her dowry and part of her inheritance before her marriage to fund the workshop – against her parents’ wishes. But after the bankruptcy, Bertha and Carl had debtors breathing down their necks for a long time and had to live in dire poverty with their children. Now is the time for something to finally change! But Carl, in his perfection, hesitates and hesitates. So Bertha decides to take the wheel into her own hands – in the truest sense of the word.

The author of the book Alexander Schwarz was born in Stuttgart and grew up in Pforzheim – the perfect condition for a novel with local color. Atmospheric, emotional and moving, her autobiographical novel tells the story of a strong woman who made history: with love that stands against all obstacles and the courage to dare to do something great at the right time. His research on the book was supported by Automuseum Dr. Carl Benz eV, Bertha Benz Memorial Route eV and the Mercedes-Benz Museum. More than 35 readings are already scheduled across Germany.

Title: Bertha Benz and the Street of Dreams

Author: Alexander Schwarz

Publisher: Knaur TB

Release date: May 2, 2024

ISBN: 978-3-426-44737-6