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The Week in Germany: Culture January 26, 2007 Bestsellers - a look at what Germany is reading
Der Spiegel has described Uschi Obermaier as, “the topless counterpart to the bearded holy icon, Che Guevara” and, “the antithesis incarnate of the German Hausfrau”. Europe’s most legendary groupie and part-time revolutionary has a new biography that tells “the unvarnished truth” about her life as the beautiful face of Germany’s 1960’s student movement and the head of the welcoming committee for a host of international rock stars. “Love is my drug”, writes Obermaier in High Times: My Wild Life. Among other “unvarnished” truths, she confesses that “Jimi was the most beautiful of my men,” and “I knew that I could love several men at the same time.” Celebrity circus aside, Obermaier was a highly visible figure in the revolutionary student movement that rocked Europe in the late 1960’s. When a handful of radicals including her boyfriend Rainer Langhans moved into the author Uwe Johnson’s flat in West Berlin to replace the bourgeois institution of the family with “Commune 1”, Obermaier literally became their poster girl – appearing naked and smoking marijuana in the magazine Stern. Marx and Mao were not Uschi’s thing, though; “Commune 1 saw it as my greatest offense that I kept falling asleep during the endless discussions,” writes Obermaier, who became an American citizen and works as a jewelry designer near Los Angeles. This month, a film about Obermaier’s life starring Natalia Avelon and featuring Victor Norén (singer of the Swedish band Sugarplum Fairy) as Mick Jagger opened in German theaters. Author, title, English title, and publisher follow. (If an English title is unavailable, a translation will be provided). FICTION
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*These books were not originally English-language books or have not yet been translated into English Der Spiegel's bestseller list is compiled by an electronic data collection system that surveys the weekly sales of 250 book stores in Germany. Links: |
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