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With playful acumen, Adam Soboczynski helps people to understand themselves as well as this strange Eastern Europe. He talks about his youth in the Bonn Republic and growing up in the Berlin Republic, about the great freedom between the years 1989 and 2022 and how it is in danger of being lost - in both parts of Europe. In the east it is threatened from outside, in the west by internal struggles.
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Adam Soboczynski: Traumland. Der Westen, der Osten und ich
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At the age of six, Adam Soboczynski moved from Poland to the western German provinces. He leaves the workers' settlement of a Polish chemical factory with his parents and arrives in a foreign dreamland full of wonders such as the Ford Capri, the big drum Chio Chips and freedom. Years later, when he finds Germany just as miserable and unbearable as a real German should be, he realizes that he has completely settled in his new homeland. His gaze keeps wandering to Eastern Europe, which blossomed after the fall of the Iron Curtain and was soon threatened again. And who would have thought that freedom in the West was also in danger? Through Trump and the AfD, but also through the omnipresent sensitivity of the Enlightenment and liberalism critics. A cheerful, a melancholic, a clever and contemporary book.
Adam Soboczynski, born in 1975 in Toruń, Poland, lives in Berlin and Hamburg and heads the Literature department in the ZEIT feuilleton. He wrote several narrative non-fiction books, including The Gentle Defense of Women in Love. His works have been translated into Spanish, French, Polish, Italian and Dutch. In 2015 his novel Fabulous Properties was published by Klett-Cotta.
"Traumland", 176 pages, will be published on September 16, 2023 by Klett-Cotta Verlag
An event by Literatur LIVE in cooperation with Klett-Cotta Verlag and Thalia Buchhandlung
(Program in German)
