When Hitler came to power I was in the bath.
Anna FunderI am a woman on her way to eat cake.
Anna FunderThe blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was just a boy. We must believe in God, he told me, because if we don't we will have to believe in man, and then we will only be disappointed.
Anna FunderThese handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.
Anna FunderTags: history germany gardens berlin anecdotes anecdote berlin-wall
You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. “And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.
Anna FunderTags: systems mistakes inequality helplessness surveillance gdr east-germany political-systems
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
Anna FunderTags: past stories normal ordinary-people ordinary gdr stasi easy-germany
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
Anna FunderTags: purpose freedom calm germany anxiety trains gdr anna-funder rhymn
There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.
Anna FunderTags: people issues wholeness whole dealing-with-it broken gdr dealing
Why is it that with women, some kink, some vulnerability of the sex, is always presumed to lie at the heart of things- as if they have no other life, no relevance as important as that which they have for us men?
Anna FunderTags: cynicism women-and-men
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Anna FunderTags: compassion empathy suffering
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