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Winter 1992
What is the new Germany? ‘Krauts!’ seeks the uncomfortable answer to this simple question. With Günter Grass on neo-Nazis, Hans Magnus Enzensberger on the new European – the immigrant, Ian Buruma on Buchenwald, and Martha Gellhorn on why she’ll never return to Germany.
From this Issue
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German Efficiency
Heinrich Böll
‘I hate the man who stood back to back with me for the hour-long journey from Düsseldorf to Cologne.’
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Buchenwald
Ian Buruma
‘Once upon a time, on top of a green hill, high above the red roofs of Weimar, there was an oak tree.’
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Losses
Günter Grass
‘In the summer, my wife and I visited the small Danish island of Møn.’
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Berlin by Night
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi’s photographs of nightlife in Berlin for Granta 42: Krauts!
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Halle by Day
Hans Joachim Ellerbrock
‘Partly as a result of emissions from these plants, but more particularly because brown coal is burnt in private houses, Halle has the highest level of air pollution in Germany.’
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The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
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A Hippy Among Communists
Klaus Schlesinger
‘In March 1975, thirty years after the collapse of German fascism, N., a student from Berlin – bearded and long-haired – attended a series of lectures at a university on the Baltic coast.’
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Shaking Hands with the Zeitgeist
Wolf Biermann
‘He was, after all, more than a mere hiccup in the history of the world.’
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The Devil’s Kitchen
Russell Hoban
‘I'll now describe this artefact as precisely as I can because I want to make it perfectly clear that when I bought it there was no reason for me to think that it was anything more than what it appeared to be.’
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The Table
Pawel Huelle
‘‘Oh, that table!’ my mother would shriek, ‘I just can't stand it a moment longer! Other people have decent furniture.’’
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Lederhosen
Haruki Murakami
‘Please, I beg you. If I do not buy lederhosen now, I will never buy lederhosen.’
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Ohne Mich: Why I Shall Never Return To Germany
Martha Gellhorn
‘Nothing would have brought me back except that I worried about the European Community whose full flowering I will surely not live to see but I invest my faith in it.’
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Baghdad Diary
Nuha al-Radi
‘Other countries do wrong: look what Russia did in Afghanistan, or Turkey invading Cyprus, or Israel taking over Palestine and Lebanon. Nobody bombed them senseless. They were not even punished. Perhaps we have too much history.’
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Dobrinja
Nedžad lbrišimović
‘The whole idea is that Adem is going to prevent the crimes that have already occurred.’
