Grenzfälle. Zwischen Polen und Deutschen

by Peter Haffner

371 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[Kai Weber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haffner, a reporter for Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, has spent many weeks on both sides of the German-Polish border, and took some time off to write this report in book form. He speaks both German (sure, his mother tongue) and Polish (probably a language of the heart, as his wife, who is thanked in the epilogue, has a Polish sounding name), and being Swiss he can approach people in the region with a great sense of neutrality. No, not because Swiss are neutral by nature (they certainly arent't), but because he is neither Polish nor (West) German. Haffner rounds off his own observations with information he got from studying written sources. So overall this is an interesting report of common life along the Oder and Neiße rivers in the late 90's and early 2000's with an added historical horizon.

[Urs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ich habe das Buch 2021 an einer Strasse liegend entdeckt und es sozusagen recycelt. Was für ein Glücksfall für mich, diese Grenzfälle gelesen zu haben. Auch wenn das Buch schon 20 Jahre alt ist, finde ich es sehr lesenswert. Tolle Begegnungen und Geschichten aus einer historisch bedeutenden Gegend, die mir nicht wirklich bekannt war. Und sehr gut geschrieben, was nicht überrascht bei einem NZZ Redaktor.