Under Construction Nine East German Lives David W Robinson by David W. Robinson 9780786419968, 0786419962 instant download after payment.

Crowded within the small and insular world of East Berlin, the nine subjects interviewed in this book formed a loose social network in 1988. These interviews provide glimpses of a social network filling the cracks in the German Democratic Republic's approved social vision, and they restore subjective experience to the considerations that inform our historical understanding of the GDR. The interviewees include Otto Emersleben, Frank Hornigk, Ljuba Kirjuchina, Bernd Wedel, Heike Wedel, Peter Graetz, Christoph Hein, Gerlinde Salomon and Thomas Braun. This work preserves the English expressions verbatim and indicates them with bold-face type. German expressions of particular interest are retained in the text and indicated by italics. At the end of the book there is a comprehensive glossary that includes explanations of geographic, biographical, and historical references made by the interviewees.