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Author Jenny Erpenbeck: "I never wanted to go to the West"

2021-10-22T11:23:30.729Z


The Berlin writer Jenny Erpenbeck ("Kairos", "Go, went, gone") dreamed of a life in Italy when she was a child in the GDR. As a child, she never wanted to go to West Germany. Instead, the author, who was born in East Berlin in 1967, wanted to go to southern Europe, as she announced on Friday at the Frankfurt Book Fair. “I was very lucky to live in Italy for a year as a child,” because her mother was married to a diplomat, said the author.


The Berlin writer Jenny Erpenbeck ("Kairos", "Go, went, gone") dreamed of a life in Italy when she was a child in the GDR. As a child, she never wanted to go to West Germany. Instead, the author, who was born in East Berlin in 1967, wanted to go to southern Europe, as she announced on Friday at the Frankfurt Book Fair. “I was very lucky to live in Italy for a year as a child,” because her mother was married to a diplomat, said the author.

Frankfurt / Main - However, the marriage was not happy and quickly fell apart, Erpenbeck and her mother returned to Berlin.

“And then we were back again and the wall was closed again,” the author recalled when presenting her latest novel “Kairos” on the ARD book fair stage.

Through the experience gained in southern Europe, she was more aware of the restrictions in Berlin.

The stay abroad may have "perhaps even reinforced the impression of the wall," she explained.

She always wanted to go back to Italy, “all my childhood”.

dpa

Source: merkur

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