“The image of a deformed East is becoming more and more solidified”

2023-12-30 12:04:38

Documents are piled up on Dirk Oschmann’s desk in the German Studies Institute in Leipzig. The highest stack consists of letters that he received about his angry pamphlet “The East: a West German Invention,” letters in which people report on their experiences after reunification. The university archives have asked him to collect everything for research purposes, but first he wants to go through the pile thoroughly. When he gets around to it.