How long does it take to read Friedrich?
Hans Peter Richter
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter takes about 2 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 149 pages, about 40,975 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Friedrich follows two boys born a week apart who live in the same German apartment house, one from a Jewish family named Schneider and the other from a poor non-Jewish family whose name is never given. The unnamed neighbour narrates, recalling their childhood friendship from 1925 onward. Through short episodes involving school, play, family visits and their landlord, Herr Resch, the novel shows how Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s begins to press on ordinary life and tests the bond between the two families and the two friends.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Jews, Juvenile fiction, Ethnic relations, Fiction, Germany, History
