by Christoph Hein · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783746610252
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«Der Tangospieler» is the story by German writer Christoph Hein, published by Aufbau-Verlag in paperback (205 pages, in German).
The story follows Hans-Peter Dallow, a philosophy professor in East Berlin in the 1960s who approaches the underground tango scene. That experience transforms him and leads him to question the social and political norms of his environment; identity, freedom, and resistance against oppression are the axes of the story.
For readers interested in twentieth-century German narrative and fiction about life in the GDR.
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator. He grew up in the town Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule (EOS) in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation, he became a dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
