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Stella Leder comes from a large Jewish family. She is the granddaughter of the writer Stephan Hermlin, a communist who emigrated to Palestine in 1936, lived in France, among other places, and went to East Berlin in 1947, where he also supported critical poets. Her mother later left the GDR. Stella Leder, born in 1982, tells the story in the book My mother, the man in the garden and the right ones (Ullstein 2021) about her family, in which there is also a Stasi story, about her school days in Hesse and the Nazis who hunted her.
Speaks in the podcast Friday-Editor Maxi Leinkauf with the author about her book – about GDR images in West Germany, but also about anti-Semitism and racism in German society.
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