Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Ich bin meine eigene Frau.
Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997. Fourth printing. Edited by Fritz Suss, with a photo essay by Burkhard Peter. 3423120614 205 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.5", is in fine condition.
"Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde in 1928 in the Berlin suburb of Mahlsdorf, is a fascinating personality, a courageous outsider and a witness of the times, the likes of which one encounters few these days. Growing up in Nazi Germany, under a tyrannical father who wanted to turn the girlish boy into a "real" soldier; she survived the SED bureaucracy, which wanted to take away her private Gründerzeit museum and make her an "undesirable person," in a pleated skirt and apron dress. As a gay transvestite, she is a minority within a minority. The fact that she is again exposed to attacks by neo-Nazis today leaves her perplexed."