Marriage and Family
Roth married Friederike (Friedl) Reichler in 1922. In the late 1920s, his wife Friederike became schizophrenic, which threw Roth into a deep crisis both emotionally and financially. She lived for years in sanatorium and was later murdered by the Nazis.
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“Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I’ve been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa’s doll-child. And the children have been my dolls in their turn. I liked it when you came and played with me, just as they liked it when I came and played with them. That’s what our marriage has been, Torvald.”
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