Tearing the Silence On Being German in America
by Hegi, UrsulaEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-07-03
Publisher(s): Touchstone
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Summary
Brilliantly interviewed by bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi, German Americans born in Germany during and immediately following World War II speak out about the legacy of grief and shame that continues to haunt them.
Author Biography
Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| Ursula: Tearing the Silence | p. 29 |
| The Interviews | p. 53 |
| Johanna: The Longing for One Leader | p. 55 |
| Ulrich: It Is at Least My Responsibility to Be Aware | p. 73 |
| Anneliese: I Don't Want to Know | p. 93 |
| Karl: I'm a Chameleon | p. 105 |
| Eva: Just Because I'm German Doesn't Mean I Am a Nazi | p. 123 |
| Hans-Peter: It's My Heritage - Yet I Had No Say in It | p. 137 |
| Sigrid: A Talent for Adapting | p. 147 |
| Joachim: During Hitler's Time You Would Have Been Shot for That | p. 167 |
| Kurt: Am I the Product of a Rape? | p. 183 |
| Marika: I Need to Survive Again | p. 197 |
| Heinrich: Playing in Bomb Craters | p. 217 |
| Beate: Small Talk | p. 233 |
| Gisela: The Making of the Beast | p. 247 |
| Jurgen: Why Should So Many People Come and Change Our Culture? | p. 261 |
| Katharina: When Germans and Jews Can Talk | p. 273 |
| Conclusion | p. 287 |
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