Verrat verjährt nicht – Lebensgeschichten aus einem einst geteilten Land
Hoffmann und Campe. 2008. 350 Seiten. Gebundene Ausgabe. 19,95 Euro.
»Christhard Läpple erzählt ohne Selbstgerechtigkeit, aber auch moralisch unbeirrt. Es ist ein Vorzug seiner Geschichten, dass sie gesamtdeutsch sind und bis ins Heute reichen. Und er stellt die richtigen Fragen.« Süddeutsche Zeitung •
»Läpples dokumentarischer Erzählband ›Verrat verjährt nicht‹ ist das bisher genaueste Sachbuch über die sprichwörtlich gewordene Stasi-Mentalität.« Die Zeit
„Verrat verjährt nicht – Lebensgeschichten aus einem einst geteilten Land“ 2009 Taschenbuch. Piper-Verlag.
352 Seiten – € 9,95 [D], € 10,30 [A], sFr 17,90 – ISBN: 9783492254670
The Wall in My Head – Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
Edited by Words without Borders. Open letter books. New York, Brooklyn. 2009
„On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, reuniting the two sides of the divided city, and bringing together a divided Europe and two worlds that had been apart for nearly thirty years. Before long a spate of revolutions had spread across Europe and by December, it appeared that the Cold War was over.
The Wall in My Head is an exciting anthology that features fiction, essays, images, and original documents to pick up where most popular accounts of the Cold War end, and trace the path of the revolutionary spirit of 1989 from its origins to the present day.
The Wall in My Head combines work from the generation of writers and artists who witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain firsthand with the impressions and reflections of those who grew up in its wake and whose work, childhoods and memories are all colored by the long shadow that it cast.
Highlights within include seminal excerpts from the work of Miland Kundera, Peter Schneider, Ryszard Kapucinski, Vladimir Sorokin and Viktor Pelevin and new work from Peter Esterhazy, Andrzej Stasiuk, Muharem Badjuli, Maxim Trudolubow, Dorota Maslowska, Uwe Tellkamp, Dan Sociu, David Zabransky, Christhard Läpple and a host of others.“