Once Upon A Time Behind The Berlin Wall

Author : David Frohriep
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783758342509

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Once upon a time behind the Berlin Wall... by David Frohriep Pdf

"Once upon a time behind the Berlin Wall..." takes you on David Frohriep's emotional and cultural rollercoaster ride from East to West: as a child and teenager in communist Germany with a first unexpected adventure in New York and a dramatic return to East Germany; escape to West-Berlin; diplomat in reunified Germany; women and a career in NYC, London and Paris; and a great love for Europe. David explores what it means to be "free", discovering new ways of living and escaping from a few risky situations along the way. Through these ten personal stories, we find out how he pursues his dream to find professional fulfillment and personal happiness.

Author : Dave Rimmer
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : WISC:89044543270

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Once Upon a Time in the East by Dave Rimmer Pdf

Author : Patrick Major
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191608247

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Behind the Berlin Wall by Patrick Major Pdf

Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth. Party, police, and Stasi reports reveal why one in six East Germans fled the country during the 1950s, undermining communist rule and forcing the eleventh-hour decision by Khrushchev and Ulbricht to build a wall along the Cold War's frontline. Did East Germans resist or come to terms with immurement? Did the communist regime become more or less dictatorial within the confines of the so-called 'Antifascist Defence Rampart'? Using film and literature, but also the GDR's losing battle against Beatlemania, Patrick Major's cross-disciplinary study suggests that popular culture both reinforced and undermined the closed society. Linking external and internal developments, Major argues that the GDR's official quest for international recognition, culminating in Ostpolitik and United Nations membership in the early 1970s, became its undoing, unleashing a human rights movement which fed into, but then broke with, the protests of 1989. After exploring the reasons for the fall of the Wall and reconstructing the heady days of the autumn revolution, the author reflects on the fate of the Wall after 1989, as it moved from demolition into the realm of memory.

Author : Thomas Douglas Adelman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781663236388

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Once Upon a Time in Yorkville by Thomas Douglas Adelman Pdf

Thomas Douglas Adelman looks back at an eventful life in this engaging memoir about growing up in a Jewish family and becoming a successful producer and director. Born in 1954, he grew up on the Upper East Side of New York City in an upper-middle-class family with the normal dysfunction that you find in all families. Notably, his family was Jewish but celebrated Christmas—although he never could figure out why. His father was a businessman passionate about politics, and his mother was an actress in the forties. When they met, it was love at first sight. The author looks back at his adventures growing up, including being thrown out of private schools as a boy and rubbing elbows with notable people. He also looks back at how he made his way into the entertainment industry, producing, directing, and working on numerous films and projects and ultimately launching his own company. Join the author as he looks back at his childhood, adult life, and his rise to the top of the entertainment industry.

Author : Ian Bell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780574561

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Once Upon a Time by Ian Bell Pdf

Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. The world is still coming to terms with what he did. How he did it - and why - has never been fully explored. In Once Upon a Time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal. In this acclaimed book, full of new insights into the legendary singer, his songs, his life and his era, the artist who invented himself in order to reinvent America is uncovered. Once Upon a Time is a biographical study of a personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever struggling to understand itself. Dylan has become the puzzle that illuminates. Here, in the first part of a major two-volume work, the puzzle is explained.

Author : Christopher Hilton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752479965

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After the Berlin Wall by Christopher Hilton Pdf

On 7 May 1945, Grand Admiral Donitz, named in Hitler's will as head of state, authorised the unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies on the following day. World War II in Europe was at an end. But many of the German people would continue to endure hardships, as both the country and the capital were to be divided between France, the UK and the USA in the west and the USSR in the east. East and West Germany, and East and West Berlin, would remain divided until 1989. By October 1990, however, the two countries were reunited, and the Berlin Reichstag was once again the seat of government. Here, politicians would put East and West back together again, marrying a totalitarian, atheist, communist system with a democratic, Christian, capitalist one. How did this marriage affect the everyday life of ordinary Germans? How did combining two telephone systems, two postal services, hospitals, farm land, property, industry, railways and roads work? How were women's rights, welfare, pensions, trades unions, arts, rents and housing affected? There had been no warning of this marriage and no preparation for it - and no country had ever tried putting two completely opposite systems together before. This is the story of what happened, in the words of the people it happened to - the people's story of an incredible unification.

Author : Daniela Berghahn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719061725

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Hollywood Behind the Wall by Daniela Berghahn Pdf

Daniela Berghahn demonstrates that East German cinema occupies an ambivalent position between German national cinema on the one hand and East European and Soviet cinema on the other. The book includes a wide-ranging exploration of post-unification cinemafrom East Germany.

Author : Astrida Barbins Stahnke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796097702

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The Coveted Recipe by Astrida Barbins Stahnke Pdf

The Coveted Recipe may be a part of that story, only steeped in the Dark Ages. I am not sure what it is and where it belongs. Is it an adult fairy tale? A sad tragedy of times past? Or a parable of human nature that in changing remains the same, where innocent people are caught in webs of misplaced fears, laws, and regulations? It came to me on a sunny day in Berlin as I sat in an U-Bahn that passed along the broken graffiti-smeared Berlin Wall, thinking how it had locked people in—like the Iron Curtain—and how many suffered and died behind those walls that had cut through lives and loves, leaving trails of guilt and sin on all sides. And then I thought about punishments, such as witch hunts and dungeons and prisons and wars. Seeing the devastation through a foggy window, I hoped that the train was speeding into a new and better age . . .

Author : Robert T. Belie
Publisher : Robert T. Belie
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781310946134

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Once Upon A Future Time by Robert T. Belie Pdf

Very few people have made it to the 100 year mark. Even today with countless medical and technological advances turning the world upside down, waking up for 36, 500 sunrises is still a feat not shared by most. So what would the you of now say to the you of then? Are you the same person? Or is life lived in segments by different people sharing the same name and same DNA? This is one letter. My letter. To the Me of Then, should I ever reach that remarkable age.

Author : Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307756824

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The Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton Ash Pdf

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first free parliamentary elections—in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory—or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power. This book is a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose aftereffects are still being felt today. As Garton Ash writes in an incisive new afterword, from the perspective of three decades later: “Freedom’s battle is never finally won. It must be fought anew in every generation.”

Author : K. Gerstenberger,J. Braziel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230337756

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After the Berlin Wall by K. Gerstenberger,J. Braziel Pdf

Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849831994

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The Year that Changed the World by Michael Meyer Pdf

'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' This declamation by president Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The West had won, so this version of events goes, because the West had stood firm. American and Western European resoluteness had brought an evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, in this extraordinarily compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, begs to differ. Drawing together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin, Meyer shows that western intransigence was only one of the many factors that provoked such world-shaking change. More important, Meyer contends, were the stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle, leaders such as poet and playwright Vaclav Havel in Prague; Lech Walesa; the quiet and determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who realized his empire was already lost and decided, with courage and intelligence, to let it go in peace, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Meyer captures these heady days in all their rich drama and unpredictability. In doing so he provides not just a thrilling chronicle of perhaps the most important year of the 20th century but also a crucial refutation of American mythology and a misunderstanding of history that was deliberately employed to lead the United States into some of the intractable conflicts it faces today.

Author : Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525505914

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Café Europa Revisited by Slavenka Drakulic Pdf

"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to." —The New Yorker An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europa and A Guided Tour of the Museum Of Communism, takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in her daring new essay collection. Totalitarianism did not die overnight and democracy did not completely transform Eastern European societies. Looking closely at artefacts and day to day life, from the health insurance cards to national monuments, and popular films to cultural habits, alongside pieces of growing nationalism and Brexit, these pieces of political reportage dive into the reality of a Europe still deeply divided.

Author : Susan K. Pfeifer,Marvin B. Sussman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Families
ISBN : 0866568646

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Families by Susan K. Pfeifer,Marvin B. Sussman Pdf

Devoted to the synthesis and review of theoretical and conceptual approaches associated with familial and non-familial connections across the life span, this outstanding book provides a rare opportunity for the scholarly comparison of the various perspectives in the broader spectrum of family relations. This timely book will be an invaluable aid to educators, students, and researchers concerned about families and familial and non-familial relationships. Counselors and therapists will value this enlightening book with its diverse theoretical and conceptual perspectives on kinship, intergenerational solidarity and relations, social supports, and cross-national perspectives on family connections.

Author : Alex Jeffery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501355486

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Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time by Alex Jeffery Pdf

Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story, it is set in the then contemporary world of New York disco and takes the listener on a journey from urban isolation and deep despair to joy and vindication, all filtered through the mind of its naïve and fantasy-prone protagonist. As well as charting the production of the album within the legendary Munich Machine in Germany, this book digs deep into the album's rich themes and subtexts. Approaching the book from inventive angles, the four essays within the book act as a prism connecting the reader to the classical aspirations of Eurodisco, the history of the black fairy tale and a queer knowledge that reads Summer's Cinderella tale in some surprising ways.