Gunda Krüdener-Ackermann - "Ein bisschen Marx und lieber Gott"

In the organizer's words:

Gunda Krüdener-Ackermann

"Old white woman" ...

clearly have the better cards than "old white men" at the moment. The fact that they are becoming visible and loud instead of retreating into the private, invisible world as usual after losing their ability to bear children and their attractiveness is surprising, even unsettling for some. It simply doesn't fit in with the role clichés that have been used and expected up to now. For example, they take to the streets as "grannies against the right" or / and they write books. Like Gunda Krüdener-Ackermann with her novel "A bit of Marx and dear God".

"The old white woman" published her first book at the age of 70. There is a lot to be said about why now...

This debut work is a look back at an eventful time as a student. The author talks with a great deal of humor about her "wild years" in the seventies, which were actually quite fun-filled at times. As "the devil would have it", the young woman soon finds herself in Marxist-Communist student circles rather by chance. The combination of being a refugee child (her parents had left the GDR in 1958), her theology studies and the left-wing avant-garde harbors a great deal of potential for conflict.

Flashbacks to the protagonist's own childhood are also enlightening, proving that anti-Semitism, for example, has always had a firm place in German living rooms and was thus able to find unfiltered access to the left-wing avant-garde. There is also the constant reference to the political circumstances of the time - think of the German Autumn of 1977.

One thing becomes clear in these biographical observations, as with Annie Ernaux or Didier Eribon - to use Gunda Krüdener-Ackermann's great French role models - private life never happens in a vacuum and is always political ...

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