A Pilgrim and a Stranger: A Memoir Part Two
Part two of A Pilgrim and a Stranger is a story of love between an American and an East German in divided Berlin and the years-long struggle with the East German government and secret service, crossing through the Wall hundreds of times. It tells of the adventure of raising a family in the multi-cultural inner city of West Berlin, literally in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. It offers portraits of both halves of the city, the fall of that Wall and the dissolution of the East German regime as well as the unification of Germany. A Pilgrim and a Stranger explores life after years on the road and the confrontations of the Cold War, of coming to terms with living in a foreign culture, in a foreign language, and of coming to grips with his American past as well as his German home as a writer and singer and ultimately as a pilgrim and a stranger.
€18
A Pilgrim and a Stranger: A Memoir Part One
A Pilgrim and a Stranger is a memoir of a boy growing up in the American Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s, telling the story of an America before superhighways and shopping centers blighted the land. As a teenager, he went to live in Germany and spent months traveling alone through Europe, still very much a post-war world. In the 1970s, he came of age in Missoula, Montana, where he experienced wilderness and new intellectual and spiritual worlds, and then in Berlin, Germany, where he worked as a dishwasher in the divided city. It is a story of personal discovery and expanding horizons against the background of religious fundamentalism, the social revolution of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, political terror in Germany, failed relationships and intellectual and spiritual searching.
€ 13
Love in the Cold War: A true story from an absurd time
Falling in love in the city of Berlin in the late 1970s would have been the most normal thing in the world, but in those days, Berlin was anything but a normal city. This is the true story of a German-American couple divided by the Wall. They only desired to marry and be together, but they had to face the absurd realities of Cold War Berlin. Not until five years after they met were they allowed to get married. They were spied upon, followed and even suspected of espionage by the CIA, the East German State Security Service and the Soviet KGB. The author passed through the Wall hundreds of time, was questioned, frisked, detained and on occasion refused entry to East Berlin. He was often shadowed in East Berlin. Because she wanted to marry an American, his wife became an enemy of the state. It is the personal story of the last year and a half of their struggle to be allowed to marry, a story of the conflict between two worlds, as well as a portrait of the divided city of Berlin in the early 1980s in all its absurdity. As the author writes: “We were bit play
€ 15
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