Olaf Georg Klein

Suddenly Everything Was Different (eBook, ePUB)

German Lives in Upheaval
Redaktion: Allman, Dwight / Übersetzer: McGlashan, Ann

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique historical and literary document of lives dislocated by the collapse of East Germany.

What happens when the world in which people have crafted identities for themselves and lived their lives suddenly disappears? How does a person -- or a nation -- confront such a shock? From 1990 to 1993, at an unparalleled momentin German history, Olaf Georg Klein interviewed almost a hundred fellow former East German citizens, probing their experiences of the sudden collapse of the German Democratic Republic, then crafting that material into twelve first-person narratives. The result is a literary account whose narrators include representatives from the cities and the countryside, from young and old, from the East German power elite and the resistance, as well as from those in position to be critical of both the GDR and united Germany. The book was a sensation in Germany upon its publication in 1994, and the translation will be of interest to students and scholars in history and political science, sociology, psychology, and literary studies. It includes an introduction and extensive annotations to assist the reader in understanding the East German and unified German contexts.

Olaf Georg Klein's novel Aftermath was published in translation by Northwestern University Press in 1999. Ann McGlashan is Associate Professor of German and Dwight D. Allman is Associate Professor of Political Science, both at Baylor University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047551
• Artikelnr.: 56407190

Autorenporträt

Olaf Georg Klein, Ann McGlashan, Dwight D. Allman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Dwight Allman Translator's Preface - Ann McGlashan Author's Preface - Olaf Georg Klein "I think it comes from keeping everything bottled up inside and never opening your mouth..." Klara D.
38
artist
emigrated to the West in 1984 "So much of the really good life was lost to us..." Petra B.
41
case worker for exit permits "You should know I won't be blackmailed..." Protestant country pastor
born 1925 "They even accuse me of having planned murders..." Major Glewe
45
retired State Security officer "I never cared much for work just for the sake of work..." Hartmut L.
43
conscientious objector
social worker
insurance agent agent "And that's why you'd rather give in first..." Bärbel C.
28
daycare worker
wife of a former border guard "So what's changed? Patriarchy hasn't disappeared..." Beate G.
45
institute employee and sculptor in metal "I always hope I won't wake up in the morning..." Rudi K.
39
former "unofficial co-worker" of the Secret Police
now right-wing radical right-wing radical "Somehow or other I want to make up for the mistakes I made back then..." Peter D.
41
journalist
member of the SED
escaped to the West
returned in 1990
founder of a newspaper returned in 1990
founder of a newspaper "So how are people ever going to connect with each other?" Günter C.
56
laborer
unemployed and in debt "You have to keep your mouth shut and do your job as if it's the most fulfilling thing in your life..." Peter B.
18
school student in the East
trainee in the West "You can best change the world by changing yourself..." Lars N.
40
pastor
philosopher
party founder Annotations Works Consulted & Cited Index