There has been much talk about the miracle of the fall of the wall and the successes and shortcomings of the German unification. There is no doubt: Many of the immense investments of the past 20 years disappeared into the sand of Western arrogance, Eastern recalcitrance and united German corruption. But there is a much more interesting process going on – a process almost not talked about that Peter Schneider calls the Easternization of the German West.
Peter Schneider has held various writer-in-residence and visiting professor positions here in the U.S. including Stanford, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Washington University (St. Louis), and Georgetown University. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. and from 2000-2006, the Roth Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He has authored over 20 books, including novels, short stories and essays, some of them translated into 20 different languages.
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