Young authors from East and West tell their stories

Who is actually allowed to talk about the GDR? Do you have to have "been there" to be allowed to write about it? The children of the post-reunification era from East and West may not have consciously experienced the period of German division, but does that also mean that they have nothing to say about it? People born after 1989 are often told that "all that" no longer plays a role for them, while at the same time, as post-reunification children, they may feel the existing imbalance between East and West even more clearly than those who experienced "the whole story".
The series conceived by Aron Boks, born in 1997 in Wernigerode, entitled "Dürfen die das? Young authors from East and West tell history" asks how young writers today imagine everyday life in the two German states. Because German-German history and its stories continue. Despite all the demands of identity politics, not being there enables a critical and emphatic look at the GDR and FRG before the fall of the Wall.
In the third and final edition of the series, writer Aron Boks talks to the authors Fikri Anıl Altıntaş and Nhi Le.
Fikri Anıl Altıntaş "A pear tree grows in the morning", btb 2023
Nhi Le in: "Loudness is female: texts by 40 female poetry slammers", Satyr 2017