East-Prussians – The History of a Perfectly Ordinary German Family
Portrait of a forgotten province
Jochen Buchsteiner’s book about East Prussia grew out of his grandmother’s detailed diary of her exodus. Personal yet unsentimental, he traces the landowning family’s westward journey, mapping out the losses suffered along the way – and not just by those leaving. Buchsteiner paints a picture of an almost entirely forgotten German province, revealing both its tragedy and its unique history and culture, and shedding light on a repressed part of the German identity. Two generations after Marion Dönhoff, Jochen Buchsteiner delivers a family history that dares to take a fresh perspective on Germany’s past.
- Brilliant narrative family history
- Captures the great issues of the modern day – displacement and exodus
- Eastern Europe through the lens of current politics and perceptions
Jochen Buchsteiner, born in 1965, studied Political Science and Rhetoric. He worked as a parliamentary correspondent for ZEIT magazine, reported from South Asia, the Indo-Pacific region and the UK for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has since returned to Berlin where he works for FAZ as a political correspondent.
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