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Verlag: Frankfurt am Main, Büchergilde Gutenberg/Carl Hanser Verlag 1989, 1989
ISBN 10: 3763289739ISBN 13: 9783763289738
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Niederlande
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195 (1) p. Paperback (Spine of the binding slightly discoloured, otherwise in good condition.).
[Berlin: self-published, 1989]. Quarto (30 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers (made from a certificate folder of the GDR); 86 pp. and 6 bound-in leaves (advertising, pamphlets, paper flags, etc.). Very good. Exceptionally rare, artistically designed samizdat publication of the GDR civil rights movement, issued on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the GDR. The conspicuously carefully typed and hectographed compilation opens with a text by the artist Bärbel Bohley, a co-founder of the civil rights association ?Neues Forum? (New Forum), which was a significant player during the upheavals of 1989. This issue brings together numerous interviews with critical voices on living conditions in the GDR by women and men from different generations and social classes. Bohley laments a ?speechlessness? in the country: ?Have we really been robbed of our language? Or have we, like our fathers before us, abandoned them ourselves by participating in the lies? Have we become a servile people because we have whispered for years in the waiting rooms of our four walls, and when in public, then almost always only at the beer tables?? The words that she increasingly heard in public during the turning point now seemed to her like a ?stammering? that came from the lips of people ?at the beer tables? The words ?stagger around as if drunk, undifferentiated and helpless. This is the punishment for our silence, for our lies.? She wonders where the ?poets and writers? are in this time of awkward speech, ?why don't they speak, why are they silent??The interviews are introduced with brief information on the biographical background of each person. They include a 65-year-old cable worker, a 65-year-old farmer's wife, an 18-year-old printer who passed school with distinction but was not admitted to the Abitur, a 54-year-old psychiatrist, a 42-year-old architect who was committed to the church, a 44-year-old journalist who resignedly retired from professional life for political reasons, a 37-year-old historian who could no longer bear the fact that her work had to serve primarily as propaganda, a 39-year-old carpenter working in a museum, a 32-year-old teacher, a 41-year-old doctor who applied to move to the West and a 41-year-old nurse, etc. The interviews provide comprehensive and sometimes profound insight into the different professional and private lives in the GDR. They report on the grievances in the factories, the games of hide-and-seek and lip service, the conflicts with children and parents, the resignation, and the withdrawal from public life. These descriptions of everyday life are accompanied by interleaved sheets on which everyday printed matter such as stamps, advertisements, and bottle labels are glued. Also bound in are propaganda leaflets and a GDR paper flag. A compelling conceptual publication on the state of the GDR in its final months.As of May 2024, KVK, OCLC show no copies in North America.