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Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
“The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969” (title translated by AI)
Frank Witzel (born 1955)
English editions
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In the Hessian provinces in 1969, a boy of thirteen and a half stands on the threshold of adulthood. For him, Gudrun Ensslin is a brown plastic toy figure and Andreas Baader a knight in shining black armour: his child's world is no less real than the political events holding the country in suspense, which he makes sense of in his own way. Memories of post-war Germany, premonitions of the German Autumn and thoughts about the present pull him further and further from those around him, in episodes of every form, from inner monologue to action scene, transcript and philosophical treatise.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 817 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1969
- First published
- 2015 by Matthes und Seitz Berlin
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9783957570772 (original)
- More
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