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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„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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