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“ – English ebook about a childhood in the GDR and East Berlin

Now 15 stories of the "Mauergewinner", describing my childhood in the GDR and East Berlin were translated into English. Ebook "Generation Wall" - Amazon.de in Germany Ebook "Generation Wall" - Amazon.co.uk in Great Britain Ebook "Generation Wall" - Amazon.com in the USA . . Book description "Generation Wall": When I started writing these stories in 2008, I pledged to create something NEW and EXCEPTIONAL about the German Democratic Republic that does not exist so far and reflects the feelings of my generation. Why? Well, it was odd. Nowhere in these supposedly typical literary monuments for this dematerialised country, I could picture myself. I did neither belong to this generation of “Zonenkindern” (“Children of the occupation zones” by Jana Hensel), nor…

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