Ganz unten

by Günter Wallraff | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 3462017160 Global Overview for this book
Registered by xoetzelx of Saarbrücken, Saarland Germany on 6/17/2003
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Journal Entry 1 by xoetzelx from Saarbrücken, Saarland Germany on Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Günter Wallraff was born on the 1st October, 1942 in lad's oath near Cologne.
His father worked with Ford / Cologne, his mother came from bourgeois relations, her parents possessed a piano business.
After the visit of the secondary school up to middle maturity he did a bookseller's apprenticeship and became a bookseller.
Still in the 50s he began to write - first as an author of lyric poems whose models Wolfgang Borchert and expressionist writers were. He published some in 1960/61 in the " pamphlet for lyric ".

In 1963 Günter Wallraff was drawn to the armed forces. His application for military service refusal was rejected. Because he refused nevertheless perseveringly to take charge of a weapon, he was installed to the observation in the psychiatric department of the armed forces military hospital Koblenz. Around in surroundings which held him as moved to be able to survive he wrote a diary - also in the hope to give access to his experiences of the public. His first however still involuntary role, of the conscientious objector and psychiatry patient, was a crucial experience for him and formed the starting point of his later works.

As a " Abnormal personality " classified, " for war and peace unsuitably ", he was dismissed. This medical opinion has been taken up by political opponents again to dismiss Günter Wallraff.

Heinrich Böll encouraged the author of the "armed forces diary", to continue and to write down his experiences. Encouraged Günter Wallraff in his decision not to return after his dismissal any more in the book trade, but to get to know the West German reality from inside and from below.

In this Book Günter Wallraff slips in the role of the Turk Ali Levent. He experiences West German reality from a perspective that is otherwise not accessible to the Germans and experiences a life which reminds rather of the South African Apartheitsregime than to the much-praised democratic constitutional state.

Journal Entry 2 by xoetzelx at Universität in Saarbrücken, Saarland Germany on Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Released on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Saarland Germany.

Auf dem Campus, Wiese AC

Journal Entry 3 by peseto from Betschdorf, Alsace France on Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Ich war an dem Tag auf der AC-Wiese, um das Buch zu fangen, es war aber nicht mehr da. Vor einigen Wochen habe ich es aber dort überraschenderweise gefunden. Vielleicht hatte es jemand ja inzwischen schon gelesen und wieder ausgesetzt!?
Ich werde mich bald an das Buch machen. Ich bin gespannt, denn ich wollte schon immer mal etwas von Wallraff lesen.
Ich werde das Buch wieder aussetzen oder es weitergeben, wenn sich jemand in meinem Freundeskreis dafür interessiert.

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