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		<description><![CDATA[Skip to content Contacts General Enquiries esml-research@bath.ac.uk 01225 383428 DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN STUDIES AND MODERN LANGUAGESMEMORY HISTORY AND IDENTITY RESEARCH GROUP ‘Growing up in Ceausescu’s Romania’: childhood memory and the quest for the self. An evening of poetry and prose and a discussion with award-winning author Carmen-Francesca Banciu Writer in Residence in the Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mutterromancefebe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636758&amp;post=658&amp;subd=mutterromancefebe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN STUDIES AND MODERN LANGUAGESMEMORY HISTORY AND IDENTITY RESEARCH GROUP</h5>
<h5>‘Growing up in Ceausescu’s Romania’: childhood memory and the quest for the self. An evening of poetry and prose and a discussion with award-winning author</h5>
<h5><img src="http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/research/images/mar-gheorghiu.jpg" alt="mar-gheorghiu" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="177" height="266" align="right" />Carmen-Francesca Banciu</h5>
<h5>Writer in Residence in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages</h5>
<p>Carmen-Francesca Banciu was born in Lipova, Romania, and grew up as the daughter of a high-ranking Communist Party official. When she won the International Short Story Prize of the city of Arnsberg, Germany, in 1985, this achievement prompted a publication ban in Romania. After the fall of communism, she moved to Berlin, where she has since written a number of important prose works engaging with her childhood in Ceausescu’s Romania. Her poetry and prose relentlessly exposes the emotional cruelties inflicted by the discipline and obedience demanded in a household of party loyal parents, but her tone is never self-pitying or lamenting. On the contrary, her writing is deeply moving, often funny, and her search for a self always buoyed by critical self-awareness and witty self-irony. Carmen writes in German, but her work has been translated and widely published in the United States and in France.</p>
<p>The evening will be chaired by Renate Rechtien and Sonja Altmüller.</p>
<p>Friday 12 March 2010, 17.15 – 19.05 8W 2.27<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Carmen-Francesca Banciu Vaterflucht Roman 128 Seiten, brosch. 9.90 ¤, 10.20 ¤ [A], 18.90 SFr ISBN 978-3-86789-077-9 Jahrelang hörte sie diese schonungs- losen Sätze ihres Vaters:Nichts taugst du.Nichts wird jemals aus dir.Und niemand wird dich heiraten. Lange hat sie ihm geglaubt,dem Vater,dem Parteifunktionär. Nun trifft sie ihn in ihrer ursprünglichen Heimat Rumänien wieder,nach sie- ben Jahren [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mutterromancefebe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636758&amp;post=628&amp;subd=mutterromancefebe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.de/Vaterflucht-Roman-Carmen-Francesca-Banciu/dp/3867890773/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1250273089&amp;sr=1-10">Carmen-Francesca Banciu  Vaterflucht  Roman  128 Seiten, brosch.  9.90 ¤, 10.20 ¤ [A], 18.90 SFr  ISBN 978-3-86789-077-9 </a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jahrelang hörte sie diese schonungs-  losen Sätze ihres Vaters:Nichts taugst  du.Nichts wird jemals aus dir.Und  niemand wird dich heiraten.  Lange hat sie ihm geglaubt,dem  Vater,dem Parteifunktionär. Nun  trifft sie ihn in ihrer ursprünglichen  Heimat Rumänien wieder,nach sie-  ben Jahren im Westen.In diesem  Augenblick holt sie ihr vergangenes  Lebenein, die unverarbeiteten  Gefühle und Gedanken. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>In »Vaterflucht« verarbeitet die  Autorin ihre eigene Jugend und den  Vater-Tochter-Konflikt,eine aufwüh-lende Geschichte vom Zusammen-  prall der Generationen.Zwanzig Jahre  nach Ende des Chaucesko-Regimes  ein interessantes Zeitdokument über  dieDiktatur,die die Menschen zu  jener Zeit in Rumänien beherrschte. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>»<em>Der Roman entfaltet eine Kraft,die  den Leser zu fesseln und zu erschütternvermag.</em>« Der Tagesspiegel </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Carmen-Francesca Banciu</em> geboren 1955 im rumänischen  Lipova,studierte Kirchenmalerei und  Außenhandel in Bukarest.Die  Verleihung des Internationalen  Kurzgeschichtenpreises der Stadt  Arnsberg hatte für sie 1985 ein  Publikationsverbot in Rumänien zur  Folge.Seit 1991 lebt sie als freie  Autorin in Berlin und leitet Seminare  für kreatives Schreiben.  BeiRotbuch erschienen zuletzt der  Roman »Das Lied der traurigen  Mutter« (2007) undder Erzählband  »Berlin ist mein Paris« (2007). </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>»Ich möchte mit meinen Romanen  einen Beitrag zum besseren  Verständnis unserer jüngsten europäi-  schen Geschichte,und damit zwischen  Ost und West leisten.</em>«  Carmen-Francesca Banciu </strong></p>
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<p>Fiction<br />
<strong>Fleeing Father</strong><br />
by<br />
<strong><em>Carmen-Francesca Banciu</em></strong><br />
<strong>Translated from the German by Elena Mancini</strong></p>
<p>1<br />
My father is a small, old man with glass orbs in his eye sockets. Since I’ve seen him last—and that’s already a while ago, about seven years ago. Since then his eyes have gotten bluer and glassier and his mouth larger. The silver in his hair gleams brighter. And the color of his skin is healthier. My father believes in the future. My father lives in Romania and believes in the future of socialism. That gives him the strength to carry my heavy suitcases, fully packed with the goods I’ve brought him from the West.<br />
My father doesn’t believe in the West. The West with its profligate prosperity is a fiction to him. A fiction that no one will admit to when it finally proves itself as such. So that no one will laugh at them when they fail and come back. For this reason my father carries the suitcases with enormous strength and refuses to take a taxi. I have to fall into line. Because I’ve just arrived and still have no Romanian money. It’s still too early in the day to exchange my Deutsch-Marks. I have to fall into line. After a twenty-four hour train ride, I follow my father like a drunken hound. I’m the kid again. The good one. The one who would soon rebel.</p>
<p>2<br />
He’s standing in the station, wearing his old leather coat and his Kyrgysian astrakhan cap, waiting for me. His lips like the blades of a scissor.<br />
His lips were always cutting. Unsparing. You are not worth anything. Nothing will ever come of you. And no one will marry you. For years I have heard these phrases. For years I have carried the scissor wounds within me. The deep scars of this unrelenting way of raising someone to perfection. You are not allowed to make any mistakes, my father would take great pains to tell me. And I have always grasped very soon what was expected of me.</p>
<p>We were an exemplary family. I was proud of that. I was proud of every burden that I could share with my parents. I had to be self-confident, self-critical and responsible. To be able to influence others. So that the world would become a better place.<br />
La valeur n’attend pas le nombre des années. That it was never too soon to prove yourself, was inculcated upon me at a very early age.<br />
We lived in one of the party’s residential settlements, the Partidul Comunist Român, or the “PCR Block”. That’s what our four story apartment house was called. It was the first high rise in our little city. A modern building with running water and a furnished bath for the most modern strata of the country. And we belonged to it.<br />
All of the adult inhabitants of the PCR-Block were actively engaged in the well-being of the country. No, they fought for it. In the class struggle. They were also fighters for the well being of the Motherland and the growth of the Communist Party. All of the fathers and many of the mothers in the building were party functionaries. Propagandists. I had the unspeakable fortune to have two politically conscious fighters in my own family.<br />
We were an exemplary family. And belonged to one of the largest. To one tribe. The tribe of the PCR people.<br />
Even for the children of our tribe, I had to be a role model. Mother and Father expected it of me. And I could not disappoint them. Father, among other things, had taken it upon himself to produce the new human, the utopian being the party urged us to strive for, in his own family. For this reason, I had more duties than the other children. My consciousness. My sense of responsibility had to be greater than that of the others. No childish excuses. No tricks. No playfulness. I can’t remember ever being forgiven for a mistake.<br />
I never had time. I always had to do something. Something useful. Something that would advance me. Something that would help others too. My time had already been strictly planned since my childhood. Rarely did I have time to play. I had to struggle for the permission to be able to be with people my age. Many a time crowds of children stood in front of my door, wanting to free me from my chores. They begged my parents insistently. Tried to convince my mother. Now and again she would give in. With a reproachful look. I knew exactly what it meant. And the lectures I would get afterwards. About the regrettably stupid way I would waste my time. About how regrettable my views on life were. Because you lie in the bed you make. And my parents would sacrifice for me. So that I would have a better life than they did. Because no one had sacrificed that way for them. They had to rely on their own strength to make something of themselves. And no one would have spent so much as a penny on them so that they could learn something. So they could have an education. My father always told me that. As far as mother was concerned, she had been to a boarding school. A private school for well bred daughters.<br />
Piano. Violin. I even got ballet lessons. Even though ballet counted as the final relic of a bourgeois education. Gymnastic training was its Communist equivalent.</p>
<p>For this reason I hate gymnastics. And every form of athletic training.</p>
<p>Piano. Violin. Ballet. Gymnastics. Russian. French. English. Any type of lessons, I always had them. Whereas my friend Juliana was allowed to joyfully push her doll stroller here and there.</p>
<p>I always enjoyed playing the piano. At least in the beginning. The small, old, deaf, fat man with the flaming pink ears, who always tapped my fingers, drove it out of me. He was supposed to be my piano teacher. Mother knew him from before. She still took piano lessons. I don’t believe that this was Mother’s way of taking revenge on me. It was her stubborn way of conveying an image of life to me. I was supposed to learn to stand above things. In a certain sense, I succeeded in it. Because I still enjoy playing the piano today.</p>
<p>With the violin it went downhill pretty quickly. The final straw was when my teacher grabbed my sprouting breasts. And I came home trembling. Without my shoes. I’ll give you a lei•! He pleaded with me. I’ll give you more. Even more.</p>
<p>My parents had to see to it that an education was not achieved at any price. They believed that one had to be very careful that the remnants of the former regime did not poison the children of the new era. In our presence the reactionary forces kept themselves well hidden. And they had to be exposed immediately. Everyone had to contribute to that. We had to get better at being careful. And what good fortune that we had managed to succeed at it this time!<br />
Piano. Violin. Ballet.<br />
Mother wanted me to take small steps. To take small bites when I ate. To learn to move softly and elegantly. I also enjoyed the ballet lessons. But suddenly I was no longer allowed to go. I would have happily danced my whole life long. Expressed my happiness through dance. To express oneself. To dance. To lose oneself and forget. And to find oneself again. But that was not the point of it. Mother was accused of acting unpolitically. Father was furious. Horrified. Mother admitted to having made a mistake.<br />
I was already writing back then. No one had to know. No one could take that away from me.<br />
I always had some type of lessons. While Juliana played with her doll stroller. And the others played Ţări-oraşe-munţi-şi-ape or dodge ball. And we had made the rules so strict that with every ball switch we had to kiss each other. As a rule. And not for the sheer pleasure of it.<br />
I had no time for kissing. I still had to take care of my pets. I always owned some sort of pet. So that I would not be so all alone. And so that I could also learn to be responsible for others. This responsibility could not kill my love for animals. I felt connected to their fate. I always owned a pet. And somehow it always turned out to be a disaster. My pigeon drowned in an oil tank in our courtyard. The rabbit wound up in the frying pan. The squirrels ate homemade soap. My tomcat got his testicles poked on a barbed wire fence. The fish. Their fat white bellies facing upwards. The smell of death lay over my childhood.<br />
Piano. English. Violin.<br />
Sometimes I managed to squeeze out some time for myself, furtively of course. Skipped the piano lesson. I went down the Marosch to go fishing with the other children. I knew the gravity of my sin and the consequences that would await me. The red swollen traces on the cheeks. The dark blue streaks on my bottom. I’d been able to guess Mother’s reaction for some time now. Nevertheless, I continued to take my chances over and over again.<br />
Lies were always complicated. In truth, I couldn’t really afford to lie. Whenever mother asked what I had done the whole day long, I could leave some stuff out, simply not mention it. But when she asked expressly, if and when, then I had to admit to everything. And bring the strap. I would rebel in my own way. I brought the strap. Gave it to her without hesitation. Mother extended the strap. Struck with an ever-increasing fury. You will not shed a single tear. No. I didn’t cry. I knew that crying was a sign of weakness.<br />
Sometimes I stole some time for myself. My parents worked hard and were seldom at home. Father, least of all. They gave me chores. One of them was to work very hard at school. Every one expected me to be the best and to receive the first prize at school every year.<br />
You’re good for nothing. Nothing will come of you. And no one on this earth will ever marry you. My father intended to motivate me.<br />
My parents worked very hard. Father’s life consisted exclusively of work. Mother often did overtime. As the director of the Communist Women’s Organization she had to run around to and from the different villages all day long. With dusty boots. A heroine of the Motherland, a real Natasha. For a short while we had domestic help. A rosy Swabian granny from Banat. I don’t know if father wanted to save again. Or if it was the Party that judged having a maid as human exploitation. In any case, I was already alone at age eight. I had to take care of myself. Clean the apartment. Keep things in order. Heat up my food. And cook for myself when need called for it. They left me a list of chores and a bunch of recipes. I had to finish my homework. And to go to my extracurricular activities. I was not allowed to have fears about being alone.<br />
I was one of the first latch-key kids in our city. One of the first latch-key kids in our society. With the key on a string around my neck, I would be happy to spend some time at our neighbors. With their kids. While I was doing that I would listen intently to hear if my parents were returning and would quickly sneak into our apartment before they got back.<br />
I wasn’t allowed to be afraid of being alone. I was afraid of being afraid. I hoped that people would not be able to see that about me.<br />
Before my parents were due to come back home, I would always look out the window. I wanted to have everything ready. I would pose. I hated being surprised by them. Most of the time it wasn’t good. When they were late, I would always look at the clock over and over again and go over my list of chores. To check that everything had been done. I ran from the door to the window. And from the window to the balcony. Took something from here and set it there. Organized this or the other thing. Played the piano. I wanted them to catch me doing something useful. Each time, I never knew what they would find undone. I would check the kitchen. The bathroom. I would get increasingly nervous. I would start to shake. Sometimes they would return a day later than expected. There would be those times when they finally came and find that I’d forgotten to take out the garbage. I would go get the strap. Order had to prevail. As well as discipline. One had to be able to rely on his comrades in every situation.<br />
I wanted my parents to like me. No. I was convinced of the importance of becoming a new human. All of the adults in our house were preoccupied with this. I was always considered to be a wonder child. My father liked to hear this. I was following in his footsteps. It wasn’t like having a son. But still, it was something.<br />
In our tribe, no, in our whole city, all eyes were pointed toward me. Everyone took care to tell me so. I couldn’t afford to disappoint all of these people. I grew up accordingly. My opinions were childish, but “healthy.” I was even allowed to correspond with people in foreign countries. I had a friend in the Soviet Republic of Moldavia, Svetlana Vrabie. Her last name means sparrow in Romanian. Svetlana Sparrow. A Russian-Romanian name construction. She conformed to everything that Moldavia stood for. I wrote to her in Romanian but in Cyrillic script. I also wrote Moldavian. Moldavian was a Russian invention. The war had been over for some time now. In the meantime the Party allowed it. And the Motherland demanded it. Patriotism should shine brightly in us too now. Next to internationalism. And without failing to show respect to the big brother in all things, the New Generation should not forget that Moldavia is Romanian soil. Even if on a long term loan. They tried to drum this into us, without straining our relations to the Soviet Union.<br />
I had no idea that it had been a political decision to allow me to correspond with people from foreign countries.<br />
My other pen-pal was from France. The Party allowed the western enemy to have a look at our reality. To be exposed to a healthy image of it. And everyone had to contribute his or her efforts to this end. I wasn’t aware of my responsibility.<br />
Our PCR-Block was the first high-rise on the Marosch. Over and over again we, the kids, would be told how the Marosch, the Mures, was the river that separated the seven forts from Banat. How even our city was separated by the Marosch. Maybe there was a reason for that. Everything had to have a possible reason. A political one.<br />
Before, our neighborhood belonged to the multiethnic state of Kakanien. And today it is marked by borders. An area that borders with Hungary. A short distance from Voivodina, the Serbian Banat. A multicultural area with many “nationalitäti conlocuitoare.” A lively area neighborhood with mixed blood.<br />
Shortly after our house got modernized, the residential block MFA next door got built, the “Ministerul Forţelor Armate.” An army settlement. A great rivalry existed between us kids from the PCR-Block and those from the MFA. Power struggles. We waged wars. Who’s stronger, we used to ask each other provokingly, The Party or the army? Fraternization between the two sides was seldom possible.<br />
It wasn’t until later that I understood that the Communists had come to power during the war with the help of the king and removed the military dictatorship of Marshall Antonescu. The king called upon the patriotic duty of the Communists and brought them out of their illegal status and out of Soviet exile, in order to save Romania. These same Communists, not more than a handful of them, who had enjoyed the protection of the king, had later forced him to abdicate.<br />
Then these comrades brought the Russians to Romania. They brought the powerful, indomitable Red Army with its tanks. They were supposed to free Romania. In the end there was war.<br />
Romania was freed. And cleansed of Romanians. Everyone became Russian. They spoke Russian. Read Russian. The bookstores and the publishers were called “The Russian Book.” Overnight Romania became a Slavic country. With a Slavic past. History was written anew. One discovered that Romanian was a Slavic language. So that everything would have its proper order, new letters of the alphabet were invented and introduced into the language. The orthography was changed. The spelling of Romania’s name was changed. So that as little as possible would remind one of Romania’s Latin roots. The introduction of the Russian alphabet was successful only in the part of Moldavia that was annexed to the Soviet Union after the war.<br />
Who was stronger. PCR or MFA. This question was difficult for us kids to answer. Because with time the settlement of the MFA people grew larger and changed its name. The city’s security forces that belonged to the internal ministry also moved into the city.<br />
The security forces and the army were in the service of the Party. The Party served the ideology. And the ideology was supposed to serve the Motherland. The people. The coronation of a creation that supposedly was stronger than nature.<br />
Or maybe it was otherwise. Because one cannot imagine what kind of fights this engendered between the kids of the two residential blocks. The army was in the service of the Motherland. And the security forces in the service of the Party. And the Party in the service of the ideology.<br />
Or was it?<br />
Man was in fact stronger than nature. Indestructible. And was supposed to outlive everything.<br />
La valeur n’attend pas le nombre des anneés. That virtue did not depend on age was a known fact to all of us kids from the PCR-Block. We were aware of our duties. You are the new guard; everyone would take great care to tell us. You carry a great responsibility.<br />
We had a great opportunity. We had every opportunity. Even one to have clean files. To erase the dark stains in our parents’ past. We, the generation of a new world.<br />
I can still remember Father’s eyes lighting up whenever he spoke about our opportunities. Almost with envy. Envy and admiration. And much restraint. One had to earn this chance. Nothing comes from nothing, everything is tied to sweat. With sweat and sacrifice. Over and over again one has to sacrifice, when something important is at stake. And what could be more important than the new world, that we were going to build. Whose foundations our parents were laying down for us. No sacrifice was big enough to fulfill this duty. How privileged we were!<br />
Oh well. That’s how it went. And father’s eyes shined. And they were moist. His voice. The new times, which he would not experience. The new human. And our children. And the happiness. And our duties fulfilled.<br />
I believe I was nearly sixteen at the time.<br />
No one could reproach father. His position was clearly “healthy.” He was loyal to the Party and wanted to climb high within it. I had the best future before me. No one doubted that they could rely on me. That it turned out to be otherwise is something for which Father has never forgiven me.<br />
We, the children from the PCR-Block, were under the care of the Party and under the observation of the security agencies. They wanted to know how we were developing and to what extent we could be trusted. The experiment with the new humans, the new era could not fail. I came to experience the consequences of this fear manifestly. I felt watched. Followed. Shadowed. How much my parents know about this observation or wanted to know about it, I don’t know. At least they didn’t take me seriously. One could not speak of naiveté where they were concerned.<br />
Father spoke of imagination and fits of hysteria. Mother always feared rape.</p>
<p>3<br />
I was not yet sixteen as it all began.<br />
By that time I had already completed my service as a pioneer scout and had interrupted my term as president of the “Uniunea Tineretului Comunist,” the Communist youth organization in my class, behind me. The war was over. The revolution was successful. Communism had established itself. And in spite of all that I talked at assemblies about the importance of all young Communists to remain vigilant. To organize properly. To behave critically. To make it in society by virtue of their own strengths. And not just by duly paying the monthly membership dues.<br />
It hadn’t been so bad given the conditions of the time. In the end, the Party demanded criticism. Especially self-criticism. And demanded action up to a certain point. The word action excited us. It expelled the suffocating monotony. It was bound up with heroism and revolution. With violence. A form of violence of which we were not aware of at the time.<br />
Back then the revolution was believed to be over. It was not until much later with Ceauşescu that the Communists would become professional revolutionaries. “Revolutionari de profesie,” he called it. The revolution continues. It is never complete. The class struggle never ends.<br />
I wanted to apply everything that father and mother had taught me. I felt obligated to include the others. At best I would have changed something in the organization myself. The possibility was taken away from me. I was released from my duties. Unburdened. Freed. Was condemned to passivity.<br />
I was not yet sixteen when it all began. My performance at school was still good at that time. My talents diverse. I was the wonder child and spoke several languages fluently. I was self-confident, had my own views and defended them when necessary.<br />
I found that one didn’t have to necessarily thank the Party for the mechanization of agriculture. I said it out loud. One had to only look around at what was happening in the world. Then one knew that development and progress were the products of society. That was not received well.<br />
Whether Father was informed of my pronouncements is unknown to me. Probably not. I was made to pay for all of that only later. All of that and much more would later be found in my files.<br />
My correspondence with foreign pen-pals also contributed to the assumption that I was harboring ideas as to how Communism could be reformed. At the time I wrote a novel about it. It can also be found among my confiscated documents.<br />
I possessed qualities, which were desirable in the opinion of the party. A sense of justice. Compassion toward the oppressed and a readiness to help them. They held me to be a fighting spirit and not open to compromises. They operated under the assumption that they could quickly banish all of the undesirable qualities from me.<br />
Excellent psychologists developed behavioral profiles of us, the PCR-Block kids. Thus they found out soon enough that I would not go the middle way.<br />
4</p>
<p>I feel like I’m being watched, I kept telling my parents over and over again, when I would come back home from boarding school during school recess or on the weekend. I went to a Romanian gymnasium in Arad, but I lived on the other side of the river in a German dormitory in New-Arad. It had its purpose.</p>
<p>I spoke German and was able to fit in quite well at the dormitory. The psychologists were of the opinion that I possessed all of the desired attributes. Furthermore, I was my father’s daughter. He was the governor of Săvîrşin, a small town near Arad, where as we were told in school, the king with his obsession for luxuries owned hunting lodges. We were also told that the king had left the country headlong. First he betrayed us. Then he fled. He took countless wagons laden with gold. Romanian’s gold. And it all sits in Swiss banks. Through his office, my father was brought into contact with the king and he had to oppose him.</p>
<p>However, I was also my mother’s daughter. An exemplary personality. Earnest and work conscious. An all-around reliable comrade.</p>
<p>Thus I was exceptionally poised to undertake a patriotic duty of great importance. Both pedagogues were present. The comrade female pedagogue, who assisted the young girls and the male comrade pedagogue. I still remember them very well. I remember their faces and their impassive way of dealing with us. They awaited me with two other people, whom I didn’t know. Before they explained to me what the meeting was all about, they elucidated my outstanding qualification due to my attributes. Then they spoke of what an honor it was to be allowed to be a patriot. Of what an honor it was to receive a duty. Of the responsibility, people like me and my father bore toward society. Great expectations would be placed on me.</p>
<p>The cause for the speech was an anonymous letter. A complaint. It was assumed that it came from the German citizens who lived in the area. Now I was supposed to find out from whom.</p>
<p>In the first instance I felt as though I was paralyzed. I can’t remember having given any type of a response.</p>
<p>The two strangers took leave of me with a strong handshake. You only need give us a signal and we’ll be here right away. Otherwise, they said, trust the comrade pedagogues. They represent us here and are ready at any time.</p>
<p>The expression “to spy on someone” was unknown to me and the activity itself was unfamiliar to me. In our family, loyalty was the greatest commandment. Decency. Honesty. Dignity. What I had always believed about my father was that he had always gauged himself against his own demands and expectations.</p>
<p>After the colloquy I felt the need to retreat the dormitory and to withdraw to our sleeping quarters, despite the fact that it was forbidden. For hours, I hid there. It reminded me of the time in my first boarding school. A girls’ boarding school in Temesvar. A type of jail, as we called it. In the boarding school some of the pedagogues were nuns from the former cloister. With the new leaders these women had adapted themselves into comrades. In this boarding school I met Melitta. She became my best friend. I dimly remember one of the many searches that took place in our corridor-like sleeping quarters. How they bore into our lives. Into our suitcases and into our closets. Into our satchels and the provisions sent to us from home. I can no longer remember what had actually prompted the search. It was highly likely that no one ever really knew what they were about. Because such things were state secrets and were treated as such. I can still remember how one of the female pedagogues came to the dormitory one evening with a couple of men in leather coats. They did not greet us. We girls stood there in pajamas and waited. Every possible rumor was in circulation. Was it about a cadaver that had been hidden in the wash rooms? About a new born baby that had been suffocated in a suitcase? And other such absurdities. We had to open our closets and our suitcases. Every corner of the wash rooms was checked. Then we went down to the dining room opened our food tins. I was ten or eleven back then.</p>
<p>Now alone in the dormitory everything came back to me and I felt a knot in my throat and my stomach was topsy-turvy. I began to shake. I can recall it exactly. Because this shaking would come over me later too and again and again and still attacks me today, when I am under great stress.</p>
<p>Back then I didn’t know what connected these two episodes.  Subliminally though, I felt that they were related and that they had something dark and sticky about them. I felt disgust and the wish to run away from there. For hours I remained in hiding in the dormitory. I felt as if I was sinking in a well of unknown depth.</p>
<p>It was not about political consciousness. I don’t know what was going on in my head. Perhaps it wasn’t even my head. When I came out of hiding, I felt relieved. I summoned my classmates and told them about the colloquy. Protect yourselves and watch out, I told them. Even if I won’t do it, there will always be someone else who will.</p>
<p>In fact this person did exist. Because that episode was also included in my files.</p>
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Song of the Sad Mother
Written by Carmen-Francesca Banciu
Translated from the German by Elena Mancini

German &#124; Germany &#124; Novel (Excerpts)
June, 2009
Chapter I
Flowers for Mother

I brought her flowers. But mother was not used to flowers. I’m not dead, yet, she’d say. I didn’t know where to put them. The fleshy roses suddenly seemed obscene. She said: Throw them away, if you can’t think of anything better to do with them. Nothing came to me. I was frozen.

You need to get over here, father told me on the phone. Supposedly it was important.  He didn’t say whether it was important for him. Or for whom.

I should come immediately, he said. And I got on the first flight.
Did she want to see me?
And did I want to see her?

An odor of burnt dolls mixed with chrysanthemum floated in the air. But chrysanthemum was only in my head. And the dolls had long since been gone.

I brought mother roses.
Mother lay in bed. She said that I should pray for her. Mother talked about praying as though it were the same as washing your hands. She had only taught me how to wash my hands.

I can’t pray. Mother had never taught me a thing about prayer. So that I would never get into the habit of depending on anyone. You can only depend on yourself, she would tell me. And I allowed this lesson to impress itself upon me very deeply. I allowed it to impress itself upon me only to forget it again immediately.

Can you imagine that? I allowed this lesson to impress itself upon me forever only to simultaneously forget it. Do you know what it’s like, to know something and not know it, at the same time? When one is able to do something and at the same time unable to do it. That’s when you feel like you exist. You exist. But you don’t exist. And you yearn for your own being.

You must be thinking, I’m crazy. I’m not crazy. I am crazy, and I am not. Is it any different with you?

I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to myself. With the part of myself that is knowing and also able. And with the part of myself that does not know and is unable. I’m in the process of learning how to consolidate these things, reconcile them and unite them.
What will come of this? Nothing halved and nothing whole? No a being that is whole. A being in balance.
And what is balance. Do you know what balance is?
I’m also not sure that I know exactly what this is. Even though I know I’ve felt it some days. I feel my feet. As they graze the asphalt. I feel how one foot swings high in front of the other and then comes down again. Like in a dance. Like a chain. Intermittently. As though I were floating. But I’m not floating. I walk. I walk with myself. No, I just walk. And I just am. No, I just feel. I am.

Sometimes I walk beside myself. Sometimes with myself. Inside myself. And sometimes I just walk.

What does she want to hear from me? The young girl that’s come to sit at my table. Without asking me for permission. We know each other by sight. She comes to the café every day to read the paper or to watch the people while sipping a small café mocha for hours. Today she seems agitated. She speaks as though she were moved by something. Without awaiting a response.

Balance. What is balance? And who is balanced, said the young woman. She doesn’t look at me as she speaks these words. She looks out the window. Out into the distance. Out unto a type of distance that allows time and place to disappear.
Balance, she repeated. Is the president of the republic balanced? The pope? The mother of God? She pauses briefly and looks into her cup as though she had discovered a world deep inside of it. Then she resumed.

She’s balanced. The mother of God. She can balance out the pain of her lost son with love. She can neutralize it.

And mother. My mother. Whom did she love? Did she love me?

She often claimed to. Every time I was not allowed to do something that brought me pleasure. She forbade me everything for my own good. Because she worried about me. Because she was anxious for me. Because she loved me.

Mother loved me and father. But father was allowed to do everything. He was allowed not to come home at night. Even though she worried about him. Father did not come home because he had duties to fulfill toward our society. Toward Communism.

He always had something to do somewhere. It was only at home that he had nothing to do. Because his activities were best performed somewhere other than home. He came home just to please us. Even though it wasn’t a pleasure to have him at home, And to not have him at home was also not a pleasure.

To have him at home always meant to be considerate of the fact that he was home, even though he was supposedly supposed to be somewhere else.

When are fathers supposed to be at home? Fathers are never supposed to be at home. Because fathers earn money and earning money doesn’t happen at home. And in spite of that, they’re supposed to be at home.

Mother was also not at home. And when she was there, she had to perform house duties. So that people could admire her housewifely qualities. Or at least not be able to claim that she was not a good housewife. Mother was good at everything. Even at being a housewife, she was good.

I don’t know if mother was good at being a mother? But is that something one can ask a mother? Is that something that one is even allowed to question?

Mother lay in bed. I see her in front of my eyes, as though it were yesterday. Mother was drained. The life was squeezed out of her. The strength pressed out of her. I’m searching for the right word. To describe what had happened to mother, the woman said.

The woman’s name was Maria-Maria. She came to Berlin from Bucharest. After the revolution. She came to find out, whether she can depend on herself.

To throw everything away and start anew. From nothing. To make something from nothing. And to figure out how to accomplish that.

To leave everything behind and go away. To another world. Where one has to learn everything from scratch. The language. How to turn a doorknob or flush the toilet. How to open windows. How to withdraw money from the ATM. In the event that one has some.

Maria-Maria said: I’ve come here because I didn’t want to go to mother’s grave. I never wanted to go there. Because mother is not in the cemetery. She is elsewhere. Where she is, I do not know. Sometimes she is around me. Sometimes she’s inside of me. And sometimes she is far away. Sometimes she’s in my anxieties. I have many anxieties. They are mother’s anxieties. But I’m learning to conquer them. I’m learning to cast mother out.

Mother burned my dolls. So that I would not depend on anybody. As soon as I started school. My bed was surrounded by dolls. I got my own room at a very young age. So that I would learn to organize my room. So that I would learn to be responsible for my own compartment. And at the same time learn to be responsible for my own life. Mother never had time. She only had enough time to organize my life for me. But no time to live it with me. Or to experience it with me. Mother did not experience. Mother had duties. From morning to evening. And even at night. But she could seldom fulfill her nightly duties. Father was seldom at home. Mother fulfilled her duty of headaches. The duty of her daily headaches.

In my memory, mother always had a headache. It was as though she’d been born with them. As though headaches and mother were one and the same.

I was always familiar with pain. Pain has accompanied me for a long time. Until I gradually learned to peel it away. To dissolve it. To free myself of it.

Mother had taught me to love pain. I loved my dolls. I was at least able to talk to them. I couldn’t talk to mother. Mother never listened. I used to talk with the dolls, but mother told me not to talk with myself. Only crazy people and your grandmother do that.

For mother, grandmother was the worst example.

The first day of school was a special day. Not only because of the freshly printed books that were carefully laid on every bench in the classroom awaiting us.

I’d been long since familiar with books. I could already read, write and do arithmetic. Mother had already taught me all of that. I was supposed to learn fast. Since mother had not the patience to explain anything twice. Let alone the time.

Now you’re already seven, mother said, and you’re in school. Now you’re a big girl. You need to depend on yourself. Dolls are not going to support you in that.

On my first day of school mother had burned my dolls. Because I needed to read. I needed to study. I needed to lean on knowledge.

Knowledge was like nourishment for my mother. And yet, mother had judged the knowledge of others. You need to know everything that is out there. Not really everything. Mother did not want me to know about happiness. One could not depend on happiness. If happiness even exists, mother said, it comes seldom and it passes quickly. And after it passes you fall into the hole that it leaves behind. And you suffocate. And you’ll never come out of it again.

Mother had never come out of hers. Mother had never found her way out. Even though she’d never even believed in happiness. In what had mother believed?

You should depend on yourself. Read. Study. Knowledge. Depend only on those things that you have accomplished on your own. With your own strength. Your own virtues. Mother was virtuous. Now she lay in bed with her virtues and said: Pray for me.

I visited her on that morning in the hospital, Maria-Maria said. Father had called. And had said that I should go there. I was afraid to see mother. But mother could no longer hit me. And she could no longer burn my dolls. Now she couldn’t do anything anymore. Only lie in bed. With her head on top of three pillows. It is still wasn’t high enough for her. She sat more than she lay. Otherwise the water would have flowed from her lungs to her throat. And she would have suffocated.

What fantasies I used to have about choking. As a child, I believed that you could strangle someone at the wrist. Or at the waist. There are many ways of choking someone. It’s also possible to choke someone by choking their thoughts.

Thoughts are free. No one can control them. This is the only freedom that exists unrestrictedly. Mother held different beliefs. She believed that it was her duty to inspect my notebook. To inspect my pockets and my school bag. She believed that mothers were responsible for everything. For the casting out of daring, unwanted thoughts. All thoughts that distressed her.

Most of what I thought, distressed mother. Whenever mother became uneasy, she got a headache.

Whenever mother got a headache, you couldn’t speak to her.
I didn’t want to speak with her. I stayed out of her way. I stayed out of her way most of the time.

Mother didn’t believe that one had a right to unspoken thoughts. A mother was supposed to know everything. But all thoughts could not be confided—not even to one’s own mother.

I was wary of entrusting mother with anything about myself. That had long been so. Since mother had burned my dolls. And I had been forbidden to cry. Because at seven, one is already grown-up. And goes to school. And it’s not respectable to cry.
Because something different was expected of me, said Maria-Maria.

She looked in her cup with the coffee grinds. She swung it back and forth. Little autumn landscapes appeared in the cup. Brown and white. Maria destroyed them with her index finger.

Maria-Maria recounted: I came on the first airplane. Mother lay in bed and didn’t know that I was coming.
The day broke into a painful hue of red-gray. A day in the life of my mother. An ordinary day. Except that it was mother’s last.

She awoke feeling unease in her throat. The unease had risen and had spread. It occupied her throat and transferred to her mouth. Her mouth was full of rocks. The unease had moved to her lungs and further down to her belly like a fungus. A sticky lichen.

I’ve still got a lot of time. Said mother. Go. Do your things. I don’t need you. When I’ll need you, I’ll call for you.

Mother didn’t want me to be at her death. Later, father said that he could understand that. A report on the first day of school was broadcast on the radio. It was my first day of school that was being broadcast. I’d written the text myself. Read it aloud myself.
But mother could not suffer it. Not even the sound of my voice.

Mother looked at the flowers. These flowers had rotted under my very eyes. Mother thinks. I can hear her thoughts. She looks at me and signals with her hand. The words don’t come out. Her gaze is dark. Mother is like a hunted animal. She can only speak with her hands. Get rid of them. They stink.

I see the words in her eyes. I can read them. Wherever I look, I see mother’s eyes. And in her eyes lies the fear. The fear that she will never be allowed to see me again. And the fear that she will have to put up with me. To put up with the fact that I’m there. Now that she wants to go.

Did mother want to go? No, she had to go now. Now that I was there, she was supposed to go. Mother could not tolerate it. She couldn’t tolerate my voice. She couldn’t tolerate anything about me. That’s why she sent me home.

Father had said that it was important that I come. But mother was horrified to see me.

Is it time? Yes, it’s time.

She knew it, and yet she didn’t. She had decided upon it. Or however it is, when one is about to die. Somehow one always decides. Somewhere inside. At some point in time, one decides. It’s a fleeting thought. Like a blitz. One allows the flames to rise briefly. Then the head forgets it. But the cells don’t. They prepare themselves for the long journey. Mother’s cells had long since wanted to give up. I still remember mother only as an old being. For me, it’s no longer worth it, she would take care to say. When it came to herself, nothing was ever worth it. Always for others. Life should be lived just for the sake of others. And mother no longer knew why she had to live for me. She had long since ceased living for father. That’s also not entirely true. To have a reason to keep living for father would have pleased her most. But father lived for others besides her. Or he lived for himself.
Or did he live at all?
And mother? Had mother ever really lived?
Mother had lived for the good of society. For our society. For Communism. Everyone should live for it, she said. And father especially, found it important to say this.

It’s a time in which the café is deserted. Even the wait staff has disappeared into the churches. Maria-Maria looked out of the window and from there, beyond it. Into the room of her thoughts. Into the room where her mother lay.

I look at Maria-Maria. I see Maria-Maria with the bouquet of flowers in her hand at the foot of her mother’s bed. The flowers shake. Maria-Maria looks at the flowers first. Then she looks around. She wants to make the flowers disappear. She is held captive by her mother’s eyes. Held captive by the leaden bouquet. The bouquet grows bigger and bigger. Maria-Maria is a child with an oversized bouquet at the foot of her mother’s bed. The mother lies on a catafalque and looks like a hunted animal. And the mother has blue lips. Her lips are dry and stick together. Her mother’s teeth are dead. A deathly yellow. I see Maria-Maria shaking. And as soon as she leaves the sick room, she vomits in front of hospital. It breaks out of her. The fear. The nausea. She herself does not know what it is. It’s something that infuriates her stomach. She calls it an imprisoned boxer. Maria-Maria sits across from me and recounts.

I stood with the bouquet of flowers in my hand and didn’t know what to do with them. I was supposed to embrace mother. She lay propped up by a pile of pillows. Her lips were blue and dry and stuck to her gums. Her gums had a blue-gray-red color. The hair on her skull fell in strands and had suddenly become gray. All at once she’d become old. Very old. She’d metamorphosed under my very eyes. Under her skin I saw great-grandmother. He lay on top of numerous pillows. Mother was getting older and older. Until I could no longer recognize her. Her temples were like parchment and the skin that stretched over her cheekbones threatened to rip apart. I was afraid of great-grandmother. Great-grandmother, who suddenly lay in the bed and said: Go, I’ll call for you when I need you. Great-grandmother spoke with mother’s voice.

Mother had never needed me. Mother had never asked anything of me. She had ordered me. Orders were mother’s way of communicating with me.
Sometimes mother ordered: Bring me the strap.
And I brought her the strap.
And then she beat me with it.
She beat the fury out of herself.

I held the flowers in my hand and did not know what to do with them. Who had ever given mother flowers before? I have never given mother flowers before. Except for Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day was on the 8th of March. It was the International Day for Women. By honoring one’s own mother, one was honoring all of the women in the world.
We honored our mothers in school. The honorees were at their place of work. They were fulfilling their duties. We sang songs in their honor. And we recited poems. The mothers had ironed our uniforms so that we would look worthy as we celebrated them on stage. Mother never experienced any of that. But the celebration hung in the air and probably reached her in ways not entirely known.

It had always been that way. One honored the children of the world by celebrating children’s day. On Children’s Day too, we were on stage. And we sang and recited poems, to honor the children of the world. Being a child. And the children of the world. And we mourned the children, who had no idea that they were children. Because the children had to work. And let themselves be exploited. Or they had to take up arms. Against other people. They had never had the opportunity, as we did, to celebrate their childhood.

I gave mother flowers. On a day other than the International Day for Women. On the 8th of March. Mother received the flowers symbolically. In reality it was the comrade teacher, who was also a mother, to receive the flowers on behalf of all of the mothers of the world.

No one had given mother flowers. Father didn’t even know that flowers existed. At home we had plastic roses. Roses that held a lifetime. Roses that lasted longer than the span of a life. And that one can re-gift.
Vanity, wasting money. And roses. Mother had wanted no part of it.

A day in the life of my mother, Maria-Maria said. On any day, I would have liked to be there. I would have liked to know, what she was thinking. Who she was.
Once on Mother’s Day, we wrote an essay. Each one of us about our mothers. About our mother’s role in society.

Who is my mother?
My mother is the most wonderful mother in the world. My mother is a tractor-driver. She works in the LPG farmers’ co-operative and makes furrows in the ground with her tractor. Then, with the seeding machine, she drops grain seed in the furrows. The seeds sprout and grow. In the summer, mother comes with the harvester and harvests the grain. Bread is made with the grain. For the world. Mother can also bake bread. The bread is fresh and tastes good. My mother is the most wonderful mother in the world.

That wasn’t my essay. It was Dorin’s essay. And we all envied him. Because he won the first prize at school that year. Whoever got the first prize was guaranteed to receive a lot of love from his or her mother. Because the mother would be proud to show the other mothers on Mother’s Day how well she had been fulfilling her duties and how useful she’d been to society. Every mother that was useful to society was a happy mother. That’s what they taught us at school. We only have happy mothers in our society. Mother was useful, and yet one could see that she did not belong to the happy mothers.
In my first year of school, I tried very hard to win the essay competition. I won the first prize. But mother’s face did not light up with pride. I was not able to elicit from her the warming, all-embracing smile that the other mothers smiled. Mother did not know the meaning of the word happiness. It was not a part of her vocabulary. It was not a part of her life. And father’s response was: We expected nothing less of you.
Bios
Carmen-Francesca Banciu

Carmen-Francesca Banciu is the author of eight books (four novels and four collections of short stories) and the recipient of numerous literary distinctions and awards. A native of Romania, Banciu has been living in Berlin, where she emigrated from Romania in 1990. Her work deals with the experience of writing under Communist dictatorship, geographic, psychic and linguistic migrations, and cross-cultural conflicts and exchanges between East and West.
Elena Mancini

Elena Mancini holds a Ph.D. in German Studies from Rutgers University. She writes arts and culture reviews for New York City weeklies at Community Media and maintains a New York City restaurant blog at http://www.thegothampalate.com. She may be reached at elemancini@aol.com.
Song of the Sad Mother (Das Lied der traurigen Mutter).  Copyright (c) Rotbuch Verlag, 2007.  English translation copyright (c) Elena Mancini, 2009.
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<p><a href="http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/german/song-of-the-sad-mother">The <strong>June </strong>Issue of the <em>Brooklyn Rail in NYC</em></a><strong><em> </em></strong>published an excerpt of my novel  <a href="http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/archive/germany"><strong>SONG OF THE SAD MOTHER</strong></a> in the wonderful translation of Elena Mancini</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/german/song-of-the-sad-mother" target="_blank">http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/german/song-of-the-sad-mother</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.revistascrisulromanesc.ro/work/reviste/scrisul_6_2009.pdf">The<strong> </strong><strong>June </strong>issue<strong> </strong>of<strong> </strong>the Romanian Literary Magazine SCRISUL ROMANESC, Craiova, iunie 2009,  published on page 24  the Excerpt  MOTHER´S LEGS </a>from the novel SONG OF THE SAD MOTHER in the translation of Iulia Dondorici,<br />
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JUNE BOOK ALERT  <a href="http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199559381.html">BERLIN TALES</a>, Oxford Univ. Press</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In <strong>June</strong> one of the stories of my Book Berlin ist my Paris appeared in the Anthology BERLIN TALES, Oxford Univ. Press<br />
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<p>Moderator: Peter Handberg (writer, translator, cultural journalist)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMING SOON at Click to enlarge Price: $21.95 Format: Paperback 256 pp. Numerous black-and-white photographs, 129 mm x 196 mm ISBN-10: 0199559384 ISBN-13: 9780199559381 Publication date: July 2009 Imprint: OUP UK Share on Facebook Berlin Tales Edited by Helen Constantine Lyn Marven and Edited by Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mutterromancefebe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4636758&amp;post=504&amp;subd=mutterromancefebe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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Numerous black-and-white photographs, 129 mm x 196 mm</p>
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<h1>Berlin Tales</h1>
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Lyn Marven and Edited by</p>
<p><!-- Added series to the beginning of description, KB, 2008-07-03 --> <!-- Added link to series, KB, 2008-12-23 --><em>Berlin Tales</em> is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers.</p>
<p>Nearly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the stories collected here reflect on the city&#8217;s fascinating recent history, setting out with the early twentieth-century Berlin of Siegfried Kracauer and Alfred Döblin and culminating in an excellent selection of stories from the best of the new voices in the current boom in German fiction. They are chosen for their conscious exploration of the city&#8217;s image, meaning, and attraction to immigrants and tourists as well as Berliners from both sides of the Wall. These stories also depict Berlin&#8217;s distinct districts, not just the differences between East and West but also iconic sites such as Alexanderplatz, individual neighbourhoods (Jewish Mitte, Turkish Kreuzberg) and individual streets.</p>
<p>There is an introduction and notes to accompany the stories and a selection of Further Reading. Each story is illustrated with a striking photograph and there is a map of Berlin and its transport system (a frequent motif). There is an introduction and notes to accompany the stories and a selection of Further Reading. The book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin.</p>
<p><strong>Readership : </strong>Readers of literature in general and short stories in particular; travellers and those going on holiday to Berlin</p>
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1. Siegfried Kracauer: &#8216;Aus dem Fenster gesehen&#8217; (Seen From the Window)<br />
2. Alfred Döblin: &#8216;Östlich um den Alexanderplatz&#8217; (East of Alexanderplatz)<br />
3. Franz Hessel: excerpt from &#8216;Spazieren in Berlin&#8217; (A Flaneur in Berlin)<br />
4. Max Frisch: &#8216;Berlin, November 1947&#8242;<br />
5. Uwe Johnson: &#8216;Berliner Stadtbahn&#8217; (Berlin S-Bahn)<br />
6. Günter Kunert: &#8216;Alltägliche Geschichte einer Berliner Straße&#8217; (Everyday Story of a Berlin Street)<br />
7. Günter de Bruyn: &#8216;Berlin, Große Hamburger&#8217; (Große Hamburger Street)<br />
8. Monika Maron: &#8216;Geburtsort Berlin&#8217; (Place of Birth: Berlin)<br />
9. Emine Sevgi Özdamar: &#8216;Mein Berlin&#8217; (My Berlin)<br />
10. Durs Grünbein: &#8216;Sommerzeit&#8217; (Summertime)<br />
11. Inka Bach: &#8216;Besetzer&#8217; (Squatters)<br />
12. Annett Gröschner: &#8216;Rest Esplanade&#8217; (The Remains of the Hotel Esplanade)<br />
13. Fridolin Schley: &#8216;Das Herz der Republik&#8217; (The Heart of the Republic)<br />
<strong>14. Carmen Francesca Banciu: &#8216;Berlin ist mein Paris&#8217; (Berlin is my Paris)</strong><br />
15. Katrin Röggla: &#8216;fraktionen&#8217; (factions)<br />
16. Wladimir Kaminer: &#8216;Stadtführer Berlin&#8217; (Berlin Guide)<br />
17. Ulrike Draesner: &#8216;Gina Regina&#8217;</div>
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<p>Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool; she researches and translates contemporary literature, with a particular interest in Berlin. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford University, and taught there and at Manchester University, as well as living for a time in Berlin.</p>
<p>Helen Constantine is editor of the magazine &lt;i&gt;Modern Poetry in Translation&lt;/i&gt; and the editor and translator of &lt;i&gt;Paris Tales&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;French Tales&lt;/i&gt;.</p></div>
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<li>Evocative stories from contemporary and twentieth-century Berlin that will enchant the visitor and armchair traveller alike</li>
<li>Photographs, a map, and a timeline will complement the stories and create a literary tour of Berlin</li>
<li>Includes some stories translated for the first time &#8211; and showcases the best new writing from the boom in German short stories</li>
<li>Provides new perspectives on German history through the twentieth century</li>
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		<title>THE FIRST SNOW OF THE YEAR in Berlin</title>
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