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The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story Peter Schneider
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

THE WALL JUMPER BY PETER SCHNEIDER IS A COLLECTION FRAGMENTED STORIES BASED ON BOTH EAST AND WEST BERLINERS VIEWS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH THE BERLIN WALL. The sculpture is called Mauerspringer (Wall Jumper) and it's based on a famous photo by Peter Leibing. He is the author of more than 20 books, including novels, short stories and collections of essays, and his writings have been translated into more than 20 languages. It's the first narrative account I've read where sections start with bullet So the book is narrated by a West German before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it is about the experience of living in a divided city. Two workers kneel on the cement floor and solder iron parts. Today marks twenty years to the day since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. I'm not sure what his story is, but he is standing where the Wall used to stand (and another still-standing part is just a block away). The Berlin Wall, a major symbol of the Cold War for twenty-eight years, divided West Berlin, which the West viewed as an outpost of democracy, from East Berlin, which the Soviet bloc saw as the showcase for communism. We hear the two perspectives through the characters who live on In the course of the evening, one wing of the new building by the window has grown another story. A fictional look at the surreal nature of the Berlin Wall. The author strings together a series of vignettes within a very lightweight framework of a writer living in West Berlin who starts collecting stories of people living in East Berlin who cross the border or the Wall. A careful discussion of the crisis. Conrad Schumann, an East German soldier, defecting by jumping over the early foundations of the wall. Thanks to Danny for the heads-up.] So that was Berlin. Of course the story didn't end there, as the following year saw “die Wiedervereinigung”/reunification and the start of tearing down the social walls built up over the 28 years of a divided Germany. The Wall Jumper is an interesting book. Memories of these The Wall Jumper is a short novel at under 150 pages, but a fascinating insight into a nation divided and a useful observation of Wall anecdotes for generations familiar with the Berlin Wall as historical fact rather than the manifestation of the cold war itself.