Overview
Crowded within the small and insular world of East Berlin, the nine subjects interviewed in this book formed a loose social network in 1988. These interviews provide glimpses of a social network filling the cracks in the German Democratic Republic's approved social vision, and they restore subjective experience to the considerations that inform our historical understanding of the GDR. The interviewees include Otto Emersleben, Frank Hörnigk, 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 At the end of the book there is a comprehensive glossary that includes explanations of geographic, biographical, and historical references made by the interviewees.
About the Author
David W. Robinson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of Literature & Philosophy at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. He lives in Statesboro.
Synopsis
These nine interviews, taken in 1998 in East Berlin, provide a look at the subjective experience of communism and the consequences of its collapse. Robinson (English and comparative literature, Georgia Southern U.) provides depth to the interviews by describing his first meetings with the subjects ten years earlier. The interviews reflect the changes those years made and what the people who lived through them expect for the future. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR