Under construction : nine East German lives / edited by David W. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, David W., 1958-

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

City dwellers--Germany--Berlin--Interviews.

City dwellers.

National characteristics, East German.

National characteristics, West German.

Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions.

Berlin (Germany).

Germany--Berlin.

Genre:

Interviews.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

v, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2004.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Crowded within the insular world of 1988 East Berlin, their lives conducted amid the cracks in the German Democratic Republic?s approved social vision, the nine subjects interviewed in this book formed a loose social network. Ten years later and in a different German state, the stories they tell restore subjective experience to our historical grasp ofcommunism and its collapse. The interviewees include Otto Emersleben, Frank Hirnigk, Ljuba Kirjuchina, Bernd Wedel, Heike Wedel, Peter Graetz, Christoph Hein, Gerlinde Salomon and Thomas Braun.

This work preserves the English expressions verbatim and indicates them with bold-face type. German expressions of particular interest are retained in the text and indicated by italics. At the end of the book there is a comprehensive glossary that includes explanations of geographic, biographical, and historical references made by the interviewees.

Contents:

1 Otto Emersleben 19

2 Frank Hornigk 58

3 Ljuba Kirjuchina 81

4 Bernd Wedel 102

5 Heike Wedel 117

6 Peter Graetz 134

7 Christoph Hein 153

8 Gerlinde Salomon 168

9 Thomas Braun 180.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0786419962

OCLC:

56912772