black and white illustrations. bound kr. 201, - inkl moms The political and very personal account of a peaceful revolutionary
A key figure in recent German history recalls, Joachim Gauck, a committed opponent system in the peaceful Revolution in East Germany and outstanding protagonist in the process of reunification as the first Federal Commissioner for Stasi documents.
Joachim Gauck spent his childhood in a village on the Baltic coast. He later studied theology in Rostock, and found its way into the church in Mecklenburg. Distance to the East German system influenced his work from the beginning. As of course he was part of a critical movement, and finally to a symbolic figure in the transition of 1989. After the Fall took Gauck political responsibility, he was deputy in the first free parliament of the GDR and the first Federal Commissioner for Stasi documents. The fight against forgetting and repression remained as a speaker and commentator his great theme, even when he retired after ten years out of office.
On his 70th Birthday Joachim Gauck wrote down his memories. He has managed an equally political and emotionally touching book in which he traces the traumatic experience in clear images of bondage and the exhilarating experience of freedom and describes the difficult transition from forced helplessness to self-determined life.
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