Die Wiederentdeckung des Gehens beim Wandern. Harzreise
The Rediscovery of Leaving through Hiking. Harz JourneySuhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, 89 pages
Die Wiederentdeckung des Gehens beim Wandern begins on the day of the currency union, July 1, 1990: Western money and Western motors – ‘woe to him who goes here by foot’ – Western newspapers, Western beer and Western people. On this Harz journey (after the famous model), the West opens up to the hiker from Saxony, and Thomas Rosenlöcher notes these experiences as a ‘stranger in his own land, which of course never belonged to me’.
Thomas Rosenlöcher – Biography
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Die verkauften Pflastersteine: Dresdener Tagebuch
The Sold Cobblestones
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990, 113 pages
When this book first appeared in 1990, it was greeted as a prodigiously precise, well-read and ironic-sceptical view of the day of the Wende and the months thereafter. At a time when the mood oscillated between shrill unification euphoria and romanticising of the GRD, Thomas Rosenlöcher gave things a close examination and relied only on his independent judgement. Reading his diary of the time today, it is plain that this is one of the most clear-sighted book that we could read about reunited Germany. With great trustworthiness, radical honesty and intelligent humour, Rosenlöcher describes a country in which we are still living today.
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