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Burning Down The Haus Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Mohr Tim
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780349701288
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Dialogue Books
Vekt
301 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Mohr Tim

Biographical note

Tim Mohr has co-written best-selling memoirs by Duff McKagan of Guns 'n' Roses, Paul Stanley of KISS, and Gil Scott-Heron. He is also an award-winning translator of German novels, including Why We Took the Car and Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf, Wetlands by Charlotte Roche and The Hottest Dishes of the Tartary Cuisine by Alina Bronsky. While a staff editor at Playboy magazine, he worked with Hunter S. Thompson and Matt Taibbi, among others. His writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Inked and Daily Beast. Prior to starting his writing career, Tim spent the 1990s as a DJ in Berlin.

Burning Down The Haus Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Mohr Tim
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Mohr Tim
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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<b>Wildly entertaining</b> . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes

Vogue

<b>Original and inspiring</b> . . . Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history

Wall Street Journal

<b>A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world</b>

Rolling Stone

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<b>[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany.</b> The book chronicles, with cinematic detail, the commitment and defiance required of East German punks as they were forced to navigate constant police harassment and repression

New York Times Book Review

<b>Gripping</b>

Billboard

<i>Burning Down the Haus</i> <b>fastidiously traces the self-discovery of punks in the socialist dictatorship of East Germany</b>, and the violence and repression they endured on the way to freedom

NPR

<b>Mohr digs into the subject of East German punk like nobody before</b>

Rolling Stone (Germany)

<b>Spellbinding . . . Part cultural history, part political thriller, and entirely true</b>

- Peter Ames Carlin, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon,

<i>Burning Down the Haus</i> is a riveting cultural history that also serves as <b>a</b><b> rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere</b>

- Ruth Franklin, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life,

<i>Burning Down the Haus</i> is not just an immersion into the punk rock scene of East Berlin, it's the story of the cultural and political battles that have shaped the world we live in today. <b>Tim Mohr delivers the soundtrack for the revolution that we've all been waiting for</b>

- DW Gibson, author of The Edge Becomes the Centre: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century,

In East Germany, where non-conformity meant jail time, punks' ripped clothes and spiked hair were a show of courage and defiance. Squatting in derelict apartments and burning their lyrics before the secret police could get hold of them, these teenagers wrote the soundtrack for a rebellion that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Tim Mohr tells the story of their DIY revolution with the thoroughness of a historian and the panache of a cultural insider. <b><i>Burning Down the Haus</i> is a riveting cultural history that also serves as a rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere</b>

Ruth Franklin, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Lively . . . Compelling . . .<b> A front-row seat to the events of the '80s</b>. This take on punk evolution is <b>engaging, enlightening and well worth checking out</b>

Publishers Weekly

<b>A wonderful book</b>

Berliner Zeitung

Offers <b>a captivating punk's-eye view of everyday life as the DDR unravelled</b> in its final years . . . Both <b>a moving story </b>of indefatigable defiance in the face of oppression and <b>a complex portrait </b>of everyday life in the DDR in the 1980s, <b><i>Burning Down the Haus</i> honours the punk spirit with its history from below</b>

Times Literary Supplement

Political regimes can't stop soundwaves. They just travel. This is revealed <b>powerfully </b>in Tim Mohr's<i> Burning Down the Haus</i>, an exploration of how punk changed Berlin, and still defines it today, 30 years after the Wall fell

New Statesman

LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 'A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original' HWA Non-Fiction Crown Judges 'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world' Rolling Stone'A riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany' New York Times'Wildly entertaining' VogueTHE SECRET HISTORY OF PUNKS IN EAST GERMANYIt began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery: in an authoritarian state where the future was preordained, punk, with its rejection of society and DIY approach to building a new one, planted the seeds for revolution.As these kids began to form bands, they also became more visible, and security forces - including the dreaded secret police, the Stasi - targeted them. They were spied on by friends and family; they were expelled from schools and fired from jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. But instead of conforming, the punks fought back, playing an indispensable role in the underground movement that helped bring down the Berlin Wall.Rollicking, cinematic and thrillingly topical, this secret history brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time. Burning Down the Haus is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of revolution.'Original and inspiring . . . an important work of Cold War cultural history' Wall Street Journal
Les mer
An extraordinary history of the punk movement in East Germany
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 'Wildly entertaining . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes' Vogue It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. As these kids began to form bands, they also became more visible, and the dreaded secret police, the Stasi, targeted them. They were spied on by friends and family, expelled from schools and fired from jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. But instead of conforming, the punks fought back, playing an indispensable role in the underground movement that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. 'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world' Rolling Stone 'Original and inspiring . . . an important work of Cold War cultural history' Wall Street Journal
Les mer
Wildly entertaining . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes - VogueOriginal and inspiring . . . Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history - Wall Street JournalA thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world - Rolling Stone[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany. The book chronicles, with cinematic detail, the commitment and defiance required of East German punks as they were forced to navigate constant police harassment and repression - New York Times Book ReviewOffers a captivating punk's-eye view of everyday life as the DDR unravelled in its final years . . . Both a moving story of indefatigable defiance in the face of oppression and a complex portrait of everyday life in the DDR in the 1980s, Burning Down the Haus honours the punk spirit with its history from below - Times Literary Supplement
Les mer

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<b>Wildly entertaining</b> . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes

Vogue

<b>Original and inspiring</b> . . . Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history

Wall Street Journal

<b>A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world</b>

Rolling Stone

Se alle

<b>[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany.</b> The book chronicles, with cinematic detail, the commitment and defiance required of East German punks as they were forced to navigate constant police harassment and repression

New York Times Book Review

<b>Gripping</b>

Billboard

<i>Burning Down the Haus</i> <b>fastidiously traces the self-discovery of punks in the socialist dictatorship of East Germany</b>, and the violence and repression they endured on the way to freedom

NPR

<b>Mohr digs into the subject of East German punk like nobody before</b>

Rolling Stone (Germany)

<b>Spellbinding . . . Part cultural history, part political thriller, and entirely true</b>

- Peter Ames Carlin, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon,

<i>Burning Down the Haus</i> is a riveting cultural history that also serves as <b>a</b><b> rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere</b>

- Ruth Franklin, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life,

<i>Burning Down the Haus</i> is not just an immersion into the punk rock scene of East Berlin, it's the story of the cultural and political battles that have shaped the world we live in today. <b>Tim Mohr delivers the soundtrack for the revolution that we've all been waiting for</b>

- DW Gibson, author of The Edge Becomes the Centre: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century,

In East Germany, where non-conformity meant jail time, punks' ripped clothes and spiked hair were a show of courage and defiance. Squatting in derelict apartments and burning their lyrics before the secret police could get hold of them, these teenagers wrote the soundtrack for a rebellion that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Tim Mohr tells the story of their DIY revolution with the thoroughness of a historian and the panache of a cultural insider. <b><i>Burning Down the Haus</i> is a riveting cultural history that also serves as a rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere</b>

Ruth Franklin, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Lively . . . Compelling . . .<b> A front-row seat to the events of the '80s</b>. This take on punk evolution is <b>engaging, enlightening and well worth checking out</b>

Publishers Weekly

<b>A wonderful book</b>

Berliner Zeitung

Offers <b>a captivating punk's-eye view of everyday life as the DDR unravelled</b> in its final years . . . Both <b>a moving story </b>of indefatigable defiance in the face of oppression and <b>a complex portrait </b>of everyday life in the DDR in the 1980s, <b><i>Burning Down the Haus</i> honours the punk spirit with its history from below</b>

Times Literary Supplement

Political regimes can't stop soundwaves. They just travel. This is revealed <b>powerfully </b>in Tim Mohr's<i> Burning Down the Haus</i>, an exploration of how punk changed Berlin, and still defines it today, 30 years after the Wall fell

New Statesman

LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 'A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original' HWA Non-Fiction Crown Judges 'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world' Rolling Stone'A riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany' New York Times'Wildly entertaining' VogueTHE SECRET HISTORY OF PUNKS IN EAST GERMANYIt began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery: in an authoritarian state where the future was preordained, punk, with its rejection of society and DIY approach to building a new one, planted the seeds for revolution.As these kids began to form bands, they also became more visible, and security forces - including the dreaded secret police, the Stasi - targeted them. They were spied on by friends and family; they were expelled from schools and fired from jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. But instead of conforming, the punks fought back, playing an indispensable role in the underground movement that helped bring down the Berlin Wall.Rollicking, cinematic and thrillingly topical, this secret history brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time. Burning Down the Haus is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of revolution.'Original and inspiring . . . an important work of Cold War cultural history' Wall Street Journal
Les mer
An extraordinary history of the punk movement in East Germany
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 'Wildly entertaining . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes' Vogue It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. As these kids began to form bands, they also became more visible, and the dreaded secret police, the Stasi, targeted them. They were spied on by friends and family, expelled from schools and fired from jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. But instead of conforming, the punks fought back, playing an indispensable role in the underground movement that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. 'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world' Rolling Stone 'Original and inspiring . . . an important work of Cold War cultural history' Wall Street Journal
Les mer
Wildly entertaining . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes - VogueOriginal and inspiring . . . Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history - Wall Street JournalA thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world - Rolling Stone[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany. The book chronicles, with cinematic detail, the commitment and defiance required of East German punks as they were forced to navigate constant police harassment and repression - New York Times Book ReviewOffers a captivating punk's-eye view of everyday life as the DDR unravelled in its final years . . . Both a moving story of indefatigable defiance in the face of oppression and a complex portrait of everyday life in the DDR in the 1980s, Burning Down the Haus honours the punk spirit with its history from below - Times Literary Supplement
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349701288
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Dialogue Books
Vekt
301 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Mohr Tim

Biographical note

Tim Mohr has co-written best-selling memoirs by Duff McKagan of Guns 'n' Roses, Paul Stanley of KISS, and Gil Scott-Heron. He is also an award-winning translator of German novels, including Why We Took the Car and Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf, Wetlands by Charlotte Roche and The Hottest Dishes of the Tartary Cuisine by Alina Bronsky. While a staff editor at Playboy magazine, he worked with Hunter S. Thompson and Matt Taibbi, among others. His writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Inked and Daily Beast. Prior to starting his writing career, Tim spent the 1990s as a DJ in Berlin.

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