Marienfelde

A highly emotional novel by Corinna Mell about the beginnings of the Federal Republic of Germany - and at the same time the history of our mothers and grandmothers 1952, 16-year-old Sonja attends a bridal school at Wannsee: she wants to become a wife and mother, as her parents wish and as it is the perspective for most young women in post-war Germany. It is Sonja's uncle Helmut, who is working in East Berlin for a freer, fairer Germany that raises first doubts. Should there be any truth in his slogans of equality and workers' power? But after the suppression of the workers uprising of June 17, 1953, Sonja's eyes open and she flees back to West Berlin in shock and fear. Full of devotion, she began to work for people who had turned their backs on the GDR in the Marienfelde refugee camp.