For West Coffee at Margot Honecker's

For West Coffee at Margot Honecker's. Last encounters with an unwavering woman , published by Hoffmann and Campe 2016, is a publication by Nils Ole Oermann . Oermann visited Margot Honecker , who died on May 6, 2016 at the age of 89, four times in the last three years of her almost 24-year exile in Chilean , each afternoon at 3 p.m. According to Oermann, the contact came about by chance through an acquaintance.

Margot Honecker was known to refuse interviews on principle, to which Ed Stuhler , author of numerous publications, et al. a. about the Honeckers and especially about Margot Honecker. With reference to Stuhler on the 160 pages of his publication, Oermann states that his conversations with Margot Honecker are more like conversations in the conventional sense, albeit with an extraordinary conversation partner, than interviews with questions whose answers lead to as many new findings as possible could lead. To the personality of the exiled (cf. Oermann, e.g. pages 9, 14, 15, 55, 56, especially 57, 59 and others) former politician of the GDR in the last years of her life up to a month before her death, where the last When the conversation between Margot Honecker and Oermann took place, the author draws on other biographical sources.

Margot Honecker, quite old and towards the end of their conversations and their life together, shows the author the "friendliness of an older lady", but also "steely hardness" (Oermann p. 24) and "not the slightest sign of dementia until the end "(Oermann, p. 17). The author is all the more astonished that in M. Honecker's imagination the GDR, this "abolished" or "sunken" state, this "vanished country" (Oermann, p. 36) continues to be an "intact state" (Oermann, blurb) seemed to exist.

Oermann's essayistic text traces M. Honecker's path in life from the very beginning regarding both her private life and her political life and work, whereby the author presents his personal reflections on the biographical and political facts. That and why M. Honecker agrees to talk to Oermann after an initial refusal is discussed in detail in the text. Oermann assumes, among other things, that Margot Honecker wanted to explain again "why she did not doubt the meaning of what she believed, thought and did until the end of the second German state" (Oermann, p. 29) .

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^ Books on Margot Honecker. In the end, she trusted the class enemy. FAZ July 5, 2016.

[1] Books on Margot Honecker. In the end, she trusted the class enemy. FAZ July 5, 2016.