Harald J hner, is a cultural journalist and former editor of the Berlin Times. He is also an honorary professor of cultural journalism at the Berlin's University of Arts.
A popular work of non-fiction in the best sense. * Die Zeit * Clearly written, full of empathy for everyday life, which is far too seldom taken into consideration... You devour it like a novel. * Welt am Sonntag * [A] gripping 500-page X-ray-vision tale of an often overlooked and misperceived phase of German history reveals, like all great history books, as much about the first decade after the war as about today. * The German Times * Rarely has a non-fiction book so skilfully combined vividness, drama and eloquence. * From the Jury's reasoning for the Leipzig Prize Book Fair Prize 2019 *