“I had nothing to offer but a nutty grandfather and an impossible grandmother, who bawled out grotty hit tunes.” “The Vosses’ grandpa” built a bungalow. The outside was decorated with corrugated plastic and aluminium foil and the inside with gold-painted cardboard stucco. The dimmer switches provided by Aunt Elektra from the West were the highlights. Here the three crazy people spent their lives, which Bastienne Voss relates. A book to delight your heart. “At first I had a grandfather, then a grandmother and then parents and everything else that comes with life. Grandfather had a screw loose. That it had worked loose in the concentration camp I didn't know at the time. In any case he passed it on to everyone and so grandmother soon had one too. In my case it happened gradually, until every now and then it overshadowed my so-called normal behaviour. So in our family at least three people were off their rockers: grandpa, granny and me. For 13 years grandpa ranted and raved through my life. For 13 years I lived in fear of this tyrant and miracle-worker, whom I adored.”
About the author:
Bastienne Voss was born in Berlin in 1968 and graduated from the Gerhard Hauptmann special music school in Wernigerode. Her jobs included being chief secretary of the East German Centre for Art Exhibitions, before she took an acting course in the 1990s and studied singing at the Carl Maria von Weber College in Dresden. There followed engagements in television series, in various East German theatres and in the Distel cabaret in Berlin, where she worked from 1999 to 2006. Three Crazy People under the flat Roof is her first book. |
