TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuczynski,Rita
AU  - Steinhoff,Anthony J
TI  - Wall flower: a life on the German border 
T2  - German and European Studies
SN  - 9781442616356
AV  - PT2671.U27 
U1  - 838/.91409 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Kuczynski, Rita.
KW  - Authors, German
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Écrivains allemands
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Élite (Sciences sociales)
KW  - Allemagne (Est)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - German
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Translation of: Mauerblume; Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Translator's Foreword; Steinhoff, Anthony J. --; Note On The Translation --; Map of Berlin (c. 1960) --; Map of Central Berlin --; WALL FLOWER. A Life on the German Border; Kuczynski, Rita --; NOTES
N2  - "In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years. Kuczynski's fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a student, a fledgling academic philosopher, an independent writer, and, above all, as a woman. Though she was never a true believer in Communism, Rita gained entry into the circles of the East German intellectual elite through her husband Thomas Kuczynski. There, in the privileged world that she calls "the gardens of the nomenklatura," she saw first-hand the contradictions at the heart of life for the East German intelligentsia. Published in English for the very first time twenty-six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wall Flower offers a rare--and critical--look at life among the East German elite. Told with wrywit and considerable candor, Kuczynski's story offers a fascinating perspective on the rise and fall of East Germany."--
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