Reading & Discussion | Moderator: Dr. Steffi Brüning (Rostock Documentation and Memorial Center/LpB MV)
Tassilo, young and in love with music and men, wants to escape the Rostock housing project and head for the freedom of West Berlin. Wavering between despair and euphoria, he plans his escape. For even at home, he no longer seems safe: “Mother says she’ll do everything in her power to make sure my plan never succeeds. Her declaration of war is crystal clear—not only as a mother, but also as a comrade.” It’s almost a miracle, but in 1986, at just nineteen years old, the searching, stumbling young man with blue eyes arrives at Zoo Station. Three years later, the Wall falls, and he makes a discovery that changes his entire life.
Drawing on letters, diary entries, childhood memories, and Stasi files, Victor Schefé crafts a novel that radiates energy.
Victor Schefé, an actor, director, and producer, was born in Rostock in 1967 and left for West Berlin in 1986. “Zwei, drei blaue Augen” is his debut novel.
