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After the Wall [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Jana Hensel (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (6 Oct 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1586482661
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586482664
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 463,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall comes this bittersweet memoir of a young East German woman, searching for her country and herself Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its strange comforts: the Young Pioneer youth groups, the cheerful Communist propaganda, and the comforting knowledge that they lived in a Germany unblemished by an ugly Nazi past and a callous Capitalist future. Suddenly everything was gone. East Germany disappeared, swallowed up by the West, and in its place was everything Jana and her friends had coveted for so long - designer clothes, pop CDs, Hollywood movies, supermarkets, magazines. They snapped up every possible Western product and mannerism. They changed the way they talked, the way they walked, what they read, where they went. They cut themselves off from their parents. They took English lessons and opened bank accounts. Fifteen years later, they all have the right haircuts and drive the right cars, but who are they? Where are they going? In After the Wall, Jana Hensel tells the story of her confused generation of East Germans, who were forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. Now as they look back, they wonder whether the oppressive, yet comforting life of their childhood wasn't so bad after all. Hers is a bittersweet story of loss and discovery, of growing up fast in a strange world never imagined in childhood.


About the Author

Jana Hensel was born in Leipzig, East Germany in 1976. She is currently a journalist for Der Spiegel, living in Berlin. After the Wall, published in Germany under the title Zonenkinder, was a major bestseller in Germany.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars one to avoid, 9 Aug 2008
By A. Rogers "tabbyfella" (Nottingham / GB) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next (Paperback)
If you can read German, buy the German original, "Zonenkinder". This is an American translation and it's terrible. I found the author too full of self-pity and after a while this begins to annoy. The Americanisms in the translation were more annoying though.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars better than any history book!, 26 Jun 2007
By D. Kuehnold "Lou" (middle of nowhere (Germany)) - See all my reviews
This book is a very valuable approach to recent German history and is not only educational, but very entertaining and funny. Jana Hensel gives an insight into her life, representative for the one of many East German people of and around her age, thereby unfolding history into personal relations and experience, making it all the more credible and accessible. It is interesting for anyone; those who can relate to it because they experienced something similar, as well as those for whom this is an insight into a completely new and different world. I highly recommend it. If you want to know something about the GDR, don't skim through the history books, read this!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars What I read, 28 May 2009
By Javier Rodriguez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next (Paperback)
Easy read. The writter tells quickly and easy what makes more confortable read it. About the GDR, she tells in her point of view, maybe not objetive, but its a real view before and after the wall. I liked to much know how they lived, and what was really bad in a comunist societ and what not. I found out how was the life (or part of) in GDR.
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I enjoyed this book, but as an English woman of a certain age I too can say that many of the things of my childhood have disappeared. Read more
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If this had been a schoolboy/girl's homework assignment, it would have been marked 'could do better'. I was disappointed reading this as I expected so much more. Read more
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