Wall flower : a life on the German border / Rita Kuczynski ; translated by Anthony J. Steinhoff.
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- 9781442616356
- 1442616350
- Mauerblume. English
- Kuczynski, Rita
- Kuczynski, Rita
- Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Germany (East)
- Germany (East) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Germany (East) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Écrivains allemands -- 20e siècle -- Biographies
- Élite (Sciences sociales) -- Allemagne (Est)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Authors, German
- Elite (Social sciences)
- Intellectual life
- Manners and customs
- Germany (East)
- 1900-1999
- 838/.91409 23
- PT2671.U27
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Translation of: Mauerblume.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."-- From publisher's website.
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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
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