The GDR as a stirring family history
Maxim Leo's family was like a small GDR. It concentrated much of what was once important in this country: the hope and faith of the founding fathers. The disappointment and maneuvering of her children, who ...
The GDR as a stirring family history
Maxim Leo's family was like a small GDR. It concentrated much of what was once important in this country: the hope and faith of the founding fathers. The disappointment and maneuvering of her children, who did not simply want to share the dream of socialism. And the grandchildren's relief when it was finally over.
In this family, battles were fought on a small scale that were not allowed to take place on a large scale. This is where ideology met life. Because the convictions were strong and they were shaped by a strong personality, Grandfather Leo: Resistance fighter, spy, journalist and founding father of the anti-fascist state. Opposition was either pointless or led to rifts. Maxim's critical father Wolf, a radical artist and free spirit, loves Gerhard's daughter Anne despite her loyalty to the state. And son Maxim stands in the middle and has to realize that there can be no youthful rebellion against “revolutionary” parents. Until the country they had built and fought for suddenly no longer existed and their meaning in life - for better or worse - disappeared.
Maxim Leo uses his family to explain what held the GDR together and what ultimately destroyed it.
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