Asfa-Wossen Asserate

Deutsch vom Scheitel bis zur Sohle - Ein Vademecum

A walk through the mental landscape of Germans with best-selling author Asfa-Wossen Asserate

When Asfa-Wossen Asserate came to Tübingen from Addis Ababa to study in the summer of 1968, he found himself right in the middle of the student movement. The Ethiopian prince now has German citizenship and is affectionately called “My favorite Kraut” by his English friends. After more than fifty years in Germany, it is time for a personal conclusion. In this book - the author calls it a vade mecum - he gets to the bottom of German peculiarities, quirks and clichés and does not leave out his own preferences. The alphabet allows him to jump easily from one topic to the next: from the highway to bratwurst, from nudism to garden gnomes, from sweeping week to the cuckoo clock, from forest solitude to tattoos.

»Extremely well-founded and well-researched.«

Roswitha Buchner BR24

From the limited, numbered original edition #1332

Retail price Germany € 48.00

ISBN 9783847704669

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