Gesicht zur Wand: Roman. This item is unavailable.Gesicht zur Wand: Roman

Even as a teenager in the 1970s, Bodo Lederer gets into conflict with the GDR authority. Despite good school performance, he is denied access to the extended high school and also as a ring fighter are increasingly placed stones in his way. For refusing military and replacement service, he is sentenced to a prison sentence of eighteen months. In prison, the decision to leave the country ripens in him. Together with his friend square, he invents a plan... In "Face to the Wall", Hans-Gerd Pyka tells the moving story of an escape from the GDR and a rocky new beginning in the West. For his work on the novel, the author received an Alfred-Döblin scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts and a working scholarship for literature from the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop.