Uwe Tellkamp
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From their grimly dilapidated Dresden residential district, Anne and Richard Hoffmann observe the downfall of a social system. They belong to a group that socialism does not really allow for: the educated classes. But a repressive society demands conformity. The alternatives of departure or resistance are impossible. Uwe Tellkamp creates a monumental panorama of the declining GDR, in which the members of three generations drift towards the maelstrom of the 1989 revolution, in part actively, in part helplessly.
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Uwe Tellkamp was born in Dresden in 1968. After national service in the People's Army, he lost his university place because of "political unreliability", was arrested in 1989 in the course of the change-over, continuing his studies afterwards in Leipzig, New York and Dresden. He was later a doctor at a clinic in Dresden and now lives in Freiburg as a writer. Awards for his literary achievements include the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis (2004) and the Uwe-Johnson-Preis (2008).
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