Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20, 1990
There's No Place Like Heimat
By Ian Buruma
Vom Glück und Unglück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem Letzten Kriege
by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Matthes & Seitz, 199 pp., DM 29.80
Patterns of Childhood
by Christa Wolf, translated by Ursule Molinaro, by Hedwig Rappolt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 407 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 185 pp., $9.95 (paper)
No Place on Earth
by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 119 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Was bleibt (extracts entitled "What Remains" were published in English translation in Granta 33)
by Christa Wolf
Luchterhand, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1991, 108 pp., DM 24
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 305 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Fourth Dimension: Interviews with Christa Wolf
translated by Hilary Pilkington, Introduction by Karin McPherson
Verso, 137 pp., $14.95 (paper)
East Berlin, October 1990: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, the grand master of cinematic kitsch, walked into the old conference room where the German Communists founded their state. He had just seen part of his film Hitler—a Film from Germany for the first time in years. 'My God,' he said to a gathering of people that included Susan Sontag, the actress Edith Clever, and various East German cultural worthies who smiled a lot and drank vodka. 'My god, I was really provocative! If only my enemies had realized…. I am surprised I'm still alive!' Whereupon the artist stroked his beautiful tie, smoothed his superbly coiffed head, and looked around the table like the cat who had just eaten the canary.
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