Katrin Schumann

Born in southern Germany, Katrin lived in NYC and London before settling in the U.S. Currently working on a book about modern teens, she has also written a historical novel set in the Baltic.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Research Materials

Helpful Books

The Rise and Fall of the GDR, by Feiwel Kupferberg
Stasi, by John O. Koehler
After the Wall, by Jana Hensel
Armageddon, by Max Hastings
Purgatory of Fools, by Tatiana Metternich
The Reader and Flights of Love, by Bernard Schlink
Simple Stories, by Ingo Schulze
Twelve Years, by Joel Agee
The Wall Jumper, by Peter Schneider
The File, by Timothy Garton Ash
Stasiland, by Anna Funder
The Dark Room, by Rachel Seiffert
Post War, by Tony Judt
The Man Outside, by Wolfgang Borchert
Nuremberg, by William F. Buckley Jr
Europe Central, by William T. Vollman
Requiem for a German Past, by Jurgen Herbst
Journey Through the Land of Eloquent Silence, by Joseph Wechsberg
Recollecting a Culture, ed. by John P. Jacob
Uprising, by Arnulf Baring
The Explosion;: The Uprising behind the Iron Curtain, by Rainer Hildebrant
Berlin, by David Clay Large
Night, by Elie Wiesel
Liberation, by Joanna Scott

Excellent Films (thanks, Netflix!)