Das Berlin der 1960er in Uwe Johnsons „Berliner Sachen“

In the organizer's words:

The new volume of the Rostock edition of Uwe Johnson's works, presented by the editors Katja Leuchtenberger and Robert Gillett.

How did a child socialized in the USA view the absurdities of the divided city of Berlin? How did an old resident experience it? And what did a pub have to do with escape? Writer Uwe Johnson (1934 - 1984) experienced the 1960s in Berlin as an alert and controversial contemporary witness. In his 1975 collection of essays "Berliner Sachen" (Berlin Things), he described it as a turbulent decade in Berlin history.

The Uwe-Johnson-Werkausgabe is a long-term research project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) at the University of Rostock. Two of the editors of the historical-critical edition of "Berliner Sachen" provide an insight into the indexing, editing and publication of this new volume. They were supported by our staff in the extensive library of the Stadtmuseum Berlin.

The book
Uwe Johnson
Berlin Things
Essays. Historical-critical edition of the works, writings and letters of Uwe Johnson, edited by Holger Helbig, Ulrich Fries and Katja Leuchtenberger, section 2, volume 1, edited by Katja Leuchtenberger, Gary Lee Baker and Robert Gillett, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2025.

A cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the University of Rostock

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