Wall flower : a life on the German border / Rita Kuczynski ; translated by Anthony J. Steinhoff.

By:

Kuczynski, Rita [author.]

Contributor(s):

Steinhoff, Anthony J [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: German and European studiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442616356
1442616350

Uniform titles:

Mauerblume. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wall flowerDDC classification:

838/.91409 23

LOC classification:

PT2671.U27

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Contents:

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

Summary: "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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Translation of: Mauerblume.

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"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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