Why East Germans had sex more often and the English had more fun
The land of East Germans: nude bathing in the Baltic Sea, every child was a pioneer, but most noticeably: plenty of sex at holiday camps! Jacinta Nandi, the Englishwoman living in Berlin, finds it all pure madness. However, none of her East German friends want to tell her anything about it – except Jakob Hein. No matter whether it was the legendary banana queues in June ’78, the absurd attempt to bring rock ‘n’ roll to the GDR, or the mysterious disciplinary measures of the East German hospitality business, nothing escapes his biting mockery when he describes the zany East, not even the fact that London in those days was regarded as the Promised Land.
For over a year now Jacinta Nandi and the author Jakob Hein have exchanged anecdotes on the true ‘kingdom of the East’ and are having a whale of a time. It is high time that we joined in.
