City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr Freud

In "City of Angels" Christa Wolf looked back on her life in the three German forms of state and society, on breaks and new beginnings. It is a letter against forgetting, begun at a time when forgetting would have been a blessing for the author. In 1993, the feuilleton in Germany poured hatred on Christa Wolf, an alleged Stasi collaborator. A stay in Los Angeles gave her the distance she needed to survive. And in coming closer to this city, she also comes closer to herself. A touching search for identity and a powerful affirmation of life - read by the author herself.