Books by Jana Hensel
After the Wall
by Jana Hensel
The book was a bestseller in Germany but also a very controversial one. The author was a teenager at the time the wall came down. She was old enough to know her world was ending, but not old enough to know why. So this is a story about how she tries to come to terms with seeing her world collapse.
Interviews where books by Jana Hensel were recommended
The best books on Angela Merkel, recommended by Tom Nuttall
For 16 years, as chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel was the most powerful woman in the world. Here Tom Nuttall, the Economist’s Berlin bureau chief, talks us through books to help us understand her time in office, and explains how her East German upbringing influenced her style of governance.
The best books on 1989, recommended by Mary Elise Sarotte
Mary Elise Sarotte, holder of the Kravis Chair in Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins, discusses five books on the end of the Cold War and East Germany’s attempts to grapple with its new future post-reunification
