Eastwestberlin

Schäedlich, born in 1935 and originally from East Berlin before the wall came down, is in the forefront of the current German writers who are describing and delving into the disenchantments of freedom, the collapse of a controlled society, the free-fall of an open world.

Hans Joachim Schäedlich is one of the great contemporary German story tellers. A Berliner born in East Germany, he explores all the subtle anxieties of souls stripped of easy access to hope. Nonetheless, these are citizens who affirm their dignity in a vision that Die Welt says “burns like ice”.