Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic write by Chris Weedon. This book was released on 2023-08-28. Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than thirty years after German reunification, Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic addresses how life in the GDR is remembered, thereby enriching and complexifying the narratives of East German life found in public history, museums, tourist venues, film, media and popular fiction. The frequent stress on material lack, social restrictions and the repressive state is expanded and reconfigured by interviewees who variously both challenge and confirm widespread assumptions about what it meant to live in the GDR. Aimed at a wide readership, this book gives English-speaking readers access to varied and detailed accounts of everyday life, individual engagement with state institutions and different views of GDR politics, society and culture.
Born in the GDR
Born in the GDR - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born in the GDR write by Hester Vaizey. This book was released on 2016. Born in the GDR available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.
Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic
Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic write by Chris Weedon. This book was released on 2023. Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic offers detailed accounts of everyday life, state institutions, and different views of politics, society and culture across decades that challenge and complexify our understandings of what it meant to live in the GDR.
Stasiland
Stasiland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stasiland write by Anna Funder. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Stasiland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stasiland tells true stories of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Internationally hailed as a classic, it is ‘fascinating, entertaining, hilarious, horrifying and very important’ (Tom Hanks) and ‘a heartbreaking, beautifully written book.’ (Claire Tomalin). East Germany was one of the most intrusive surveillance states of all time. One in 7 people spied on their friends, family and colleagues. In ‘the most humane and sensitive way’ (J.M. Coetzee) Funder tells the true stories of four people who had the extraordinary courage to refuse to collaborate with the Stasi, and the price they paid. She meets Miriam Weber, who was imprisoned at 16 after scaling the Berlin Wall. She drinks with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the Eastern Bloc who was ‘disappeared’. And she finds former Stasi men who defend their regime long past its demise, and yearn for the second coming of Communism. Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in English in 2004. It was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards, The Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing). It is read in schools and universities in many countries, and has been adapted for CD and the stage by The National Theatre, London.
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Berlin Wall write by Frederick Taylor. This book was released on 2012-08-02. The Berlin Wall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison, breached it on the historic night of 9 November 1989. Frederick Taylor's eagerly awaited new book reveals the strange and chilling story of how the initial barrier system was conceived, then systematically extended, adapted and strengthened over almost thirty years. Patrolled by vicious dogs and by guards on shoot-to-kill orders, the Wall, with its more than 300 towers, became a wired and lethally booby-trapped monument to a world torn apart by fiercely antagonistic ideologies. The Wall had tragic consequences in personal and political terms, affecting the lives of Germans and non-Germans alike in a myriad of cruel, inhuman and occasionally absurd ways. The Berlin Wall is the definitive account of a divided city and its people.
