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        March 2016

        Dshamilja

        by Tschingis Aitmatow, Stefanie Harjes, Gisela Drohla

        Dshamilja ist eine selbstbewusste junge Frau, geradeheraus und zupackend. Sie lebt in einem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen Kirgisiens – allein, denn ihr ungeliebter Ehemann zog schon kurz nach der Hochzeit in den Krieg. Bei den täglichen Getreidetransporten zum Bahnhof lernt sie Danijar kennen, Frontheimkehrer, scheu und still und von den Menschen im Dorf gemieden. Als er eines Abends auf dem Heimweg ein Lied singt, entdeckt Dshamilja eine ganz andere Seite an ihm: Er singt von der Landschaft und vom Leben, und Dshamilja ist hingerissen. Als ihr Ehemann zurückkehrt, muss Dshamilja sich entscheiden – und sie entscheidet sich für Danijar, damit aber gegen ihre Familie, gegen ihre Heimat und gegen die Traditionen …

      • August 2020

        My Errors, Confusions

        by Gisela Heller

        The journalist, writer and fontane expert Gisela Heller invites readers with her memories on a journey through her long and eventful life. The author describes her not always easy path from her escape from her Silesian homeland and her professional beginnings in the early GDR, through her journalistic work for radio and television, to her closer involvement with a famous colleague who was to become her main work content and pillar of her life, Theodor Fontane. No writer is as close to me as Theodor Fontane, confesses the author and discovers, the more and the more intensively she deals with him, many parallels in her two life arcs. I did not choose him; he has grown into me over time.The book also offers exciting insights from the world of media and culture in the GDR, from the time of the reunification and the post-reunification period to the present, and presents a series of portraits of politicians, journalists and artist colleagues. At the same time, the extensive text does not omit family joys and difficulties and shows how the author repeatedly succeeded and continues to succeed in overcoming sometimes serious illnesses, crises and conflicts and in regaining a positive attitude to life.The touching autobiography concludes with the words: "The time of great, unfulfillable wishes is over; only one remained: May a pensive smile transfigure the face of those who think of me Cest çaThe almost 700-page memoirs of journalist, writer and font expert Gisela Heller were published to mark the 91st birthday of the author

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