Pre-Military Training Camp Baseball – GDR

Although I visited several countries after the Wall came down, since I was allowed to do so, I didn’t set foot in the USA. This country had formerly been class enemy No. 1, the imperialist exploiting superpower, the evil. For years they had hammered it into my mind: GDR good, USSR very good, FRG bad, USA very bad. Perpetually, we had to be on the lookout against Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and to be prepared to defend ourselves, like the proud Vietnamese did. Travelling into this country? By my own choice? Never! However, because of a new job I had to visit this country of the unlimited dumb, greedy for profit American people. Despite the prospect to see New…

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Free German Youth Lessons – „Generation Wall“ by Mark Scheppert

In spring 2008 Sylvie’s brother visited us together with his girlfriend in Berlin. These two are very pleasant visitors. We don’t have to entertain them at all. No cultural programme to arrange, no endless thinking which historic sites of the capital they don’t know yet. We didn’t even have to buy the current city magazines to search for the latest musicals, movies or theatre plays. Andi and Kati are interested in... nothing. Very pleasant, as I said! They both were born in the south west of Germany, in the so called Pfalz, like my Sylvie. This is obviously one reason why they often pelt me with questions about my East German youth for hours. Thus, I wanted them to soak…

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„Generation Wall“ for free!!!

Only this weekend (01/20/2012 – 01/23/2012) you can get my ebook „Generation Wall“ for free! . (nur dieses Wochenende (20.01.2012 – 23.01.2012) gibt es mein Ebook „Generation Wall“ gratis!) . With the publication of his autobiographical debut novel 'Mauergewinner' (Engl.: Generation Wall) Mark Scheppert was immediately quite successful. He even reached number one of the BoD bestselling list in Germany. "He hadn't moved a single bit - but nonetheless converted from Ossi to Wessi. His whole life M.S. has been living in the Eastern part of Berlin. At his 37th birthday he experienced his personal turnaround." Spiegel Online - Amazon.de in Germany . - Amazon.co.uk in Great Britain . - Amazon.com in the USA . - Amazon.fr in France .…

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Vorstellung „Generation Wall“ im Blog des DDR-Museums

Das ist ja schön: vor ein paar Tagen wurde mein englisches Buch "Generation Wall" im Blog des DDR-Museums (Berlin Mitte) vorgestellt. Hier ein kurzer Auszug: Mark Scheppert began writing his stories in 2008 and he intended to write something new and unique about the GDR representative for his generation and not existing so far. Scheppert felt that nowhere in literature about the German Democratic Republic he could picture himself. He did neither belong to the generation of "Zonenkindern" nor lived in "Sonnenallee". He couldn't find his experiences or his youth in other books about the GDR, therefore wasn't able to identify with it. But above all he couldn't associate his feelings and emotions with this time. Vollständig kann man den…

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Generation Wall

(Exerpt) . ...although I visited several countries after the Wall came down, since I was allowed to do so, I didn’t set foot in the USA. This country had formerly been class enemy No. 1, the imperialist exploiting superpower, the evil. For years they had hammered it into my mind: GDR good, USSR very good, FRG bad, USA very bad. Perpetually, we had to be on the lookout against Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and to be prepared to defend ourselves, like the proud Vietnamese did. Travelling into this country? By my own choice? Never! However, because of a new job I had to visit this country of the unlimited dumb, greedy for profit American people. Despite the prospect to…

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