Original Title: Winter im Sommer – Frühling im Herbst
Hardcover, Linen with jacket,
352 pages,
13.5 x 21.5 cm,
5.3 x 8.5 Inches,
20 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-88680-935-6
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Publishing House:
Siedler
Date of publication:
October 12, 2009
This title is available.
Rights sold to: Czech Republic (Euromedia), Denmark (Gyldendal), Hungary (Luther), Japan (Ronsosha), Poland (Swiat Ksiazki), Romania (Curtea Veche)
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The political and very personal look back at a peaceful revolutionary
The political and very personal look back at a peaceful revolutionary
A key figure in the recent history of Germany reminisces: Joachim Gauck, an active opponent of the political system in East Germany at the time of the peaceful revolution and, as the first Federal Commissioner in charge of the documents of the East German State Security Service (Stasi), one of the central figures in the process of German unification.
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Joachim Gauck has written his memoirs. The result is a book that is both political and emotionally moving – a book in which he outlines in clear images the traumatic experience of lack of freedom and the joyful experience of liberty, and describes the difficult transition from enforced powerlessness to a self-determined life.
“Gauck's memories are a kind of doctrine of freedom; his personal revelations report on the acquisition of an upright gait – and why it was worth it ... He has written an informative book for all who want to know how the democratic ethos survived in the winter of the dictatorship. Whoever is still wondering what sort of society the German Democratic Republic was can find out here.”
Die Zeit
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