Helden wie wir

The truly true story about the fall of the Berlin Wall: the great turning point novel by Thomas Brussig. German history needs to be rewritten: it was Klaus Uhltzscht who brought down the Berlin Wall! Klaus is actually a failure par excellence. As the son of a Stasi informant and a hygiene inspector, he grows up surrounded by sweatpants and Dr. Schnabel's sex education book, and he remains a perpetual underachiever in physical education. Unfortunately, his great dream of working as a top agent for the Stasi does not come true. However, he invents a perversion file and becomes the personal blood donor for Erich Honecker. Now, with the wall having fallen - listen and be amazed - due to his penis, Klaus spills the beans and recounts his glorious life. No one has ever more cheekily and unpretentiously aired the petty bourgeois staleness of the East than Brussig. A reading pleasure of the highest order!.