The title and subtitle describe the content of the book quite accurately. Embedded in a grotesquely disturbing post-reunification frame, the first-person narrator reports her life in the German Democratic Republic, seen from below. She clashes against her father, against her own gender, but most strongly against the narrow ideological boundaries of the GDR reality. And so she made early acquaintance with the omnipresent Stasi and faced juvenile detention officers and police. She succeeds in rising as a rock musician and changing gender, but always remains on the fringes of society, close to the crash. Even after the flight to the West and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, life remains turbulent.
Judith Hodosi was born in Berlin in 1939 and lived in East Berlin until 1972, she was in prison, and worked as a rock musician until she managed to escape from the GDR. She then lived in West Berlin and Hamburg. She studied economics and Slavic studies in Hamburg.
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