The German comedy : scenes of life after the wall / Peter Schneider ; translated by Philip Boehm and Leigh Hafrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Peter, 1940-2026

Standardized Title:

Extreme Mittellage. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Germany--Description and travel.

Germany.

Travel.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991.

Summary:

Clarifies the confusing reality of the new Germany, the symbol no longer of postwar rifts but of a new political order.

Contents:

Before the fall

East-west passages

Sentimental Germany

Some people can even sleep through an earthquake

In Germany, Saigon wins : the Vietnamese in Berlin

Two successful rogues

The genealogist

The deep-freeze theory and other hypotheses

Three bad reasons and two good ones to fear the Germans

Of dogs and Germans.

Notes:

Translation of: Extreme Mittellage.

ISBN:

0374102015

9780374102012

0374523584

9780374523589

OCLC:

23901717