Germany’s authoritarian past haunts Birgit Vanderbeke’s explorations of patriarchal tyranny, The Mussel Feast and You Would Have Missed Me. These…
November 2019 – The German Riveter
We have our best ideas between the ages of five and ten. Some people have only a few ideas after…
The twentieth century was one of turmoil and repeated upheaval for the German people. In just over eighty years there…
‘It must have been fun growing up in eighties’ Germany, Mum, all that great music?’ My daughter looks at me…
‘Your mother was out there cheering, dancing and bringing down the wall,’ my dad would often say, whenever I asked…
I don’t remember what I was reading thatNovember. I do know I reread Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel a few…