Our West Berlin

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Our West Berlin! The beloved urban island where bars and pubs were open all night so the locals could plot the revolution! Where beer was cheap and sausage on a roll was considered dinner. Where the tenements still bore bullet holes from World War II, and the draft did not exist. Where the city government regularly stumbled over some real estate scandal and where the Communist-controlled S-Bahn train did not run (mostly). Where old-timers, Turkish immigrants, and students from West Germany lived side by side without much talking to each other, where winter smelled like coal, and summer smelled like weed. This book is devoted to this half-city, surrounded by the Wall, which ceased to exist in 1989. Two dozen authors who are, or were living in Berlin have contributed stories, from JFK touring Checkpoint Charlie to squatters at the Wall. It is a book for those who remember, and for those who wish they did.

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Eva Schweitzer
Eva C. Schweitzer moved from Munich to West Berlin in 1982, where she studied at the FU and wrote for the taz and Tagesspiegel. Today, she lives in Berlin and New York, where she did her dissertation. She writes for Kleine Zeitung, Cicero and Baumeister and has published twelve books, most recently Links Blinken, Rechts Abbiegen (Westend, Frankfurt). She also runs the Berlinica publishing house.

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