by Christoph Hein · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783518413876
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«Von allem Anfang an» is the novel by Christoph Hein, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in hardcover (200 pages, in German).
The novel follows Karl from childhood to adolescence in a small town in the GDR during the 1950s and 1960s. Through his gaze, Christoph Hein explores identity, sexuality and political repression, and shows the search for freedom and alienation under a totalitarian regime.
Originally written in German and first published in 1997; this Suhrkamp edition is from 2002.
For readers of contemporary German fiction interested in everyday life and repression 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.
