Reviews

"An important book."
Jens Uthoff, die tageszeitung

"It is the first description by a student with foreign roots of his life in the GDR and succinctly but accurately records the narrow-mindedness and hostility he encountered. What I suspected up to now, I get described here. And the crazy thing is: I passed the draughty barracks where the German courses for foreign students took place by bus (line 31,) every day when I went to school. That was in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Origin and future seem to be close together".
Jan Kuhlbrodt, Piqd / Literatenfunk

"Read this!"
We read indie

"In his new book he tells how he came to the GDR as a student, passing border guards with Kalashnikovs. How fellow students called a girlfriend a 'foreigner bitch' even before the fall of the Wall. How window panes shattered at kebab stands during the 2008 European Football Championship. And why he stayed anyway."
Isabel Metzger, Spiegel Online

Author Biography

Hussein Jinah was born in 1958 on a British steamer coming from India. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Dresden and later worked as a social worker / street worker. In the meantime, he is chairman of the Dresden Integration and Foreigners Advisory Board, sits on the board of the Federal Migration Committee of Ver.di and is chairman of the board of the State Migration Committee (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia) of Ver.di. Hussein Jinah is also on the board of the umbrella organization of Saxon migrant organizations and is a volunteer community interpreter. He was the chairman of the board of the Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat e.V.

Sebastian Christ was born in1981 in Frankenberg (Northern Hesse) and holds a Master's degree in Futures Studies from the Free University of Berlin. His journalistic career began with a degree in journalism in Munich, combined with training at the German School of Journalism. First trips to Eastern Europe and the Orient followed. During a semester abroad in Washington D.C. he discovered his passion for literary journalism. For his work he received the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists in 2005 and 2009. Currently he works as a digital editor at the Tagesspiegel.

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