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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-02-07 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber In 1996. in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany. Philip Oltermanns parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying questions arise. How would English schoolboys take to a lanky 16-year-old German How did they think and do things differently What was the secret of the famed British humour And were there values ??that English and German people sharedIn search of answers. Oltermann interweaves memoir and history. taking ten key Anglo-German encounters from the last 200 years as his starting point These include:. an encounter between Joe Strummer and the Baader Meinhof gang. Helmut Kohl trying to explain the virtues of German cuisine to a sceptical Margaret Thatcher and philosophe...
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Philip Oltermann was born in Schleswig-Holstein but moved to England when he was 16. He has written for several English and German newspapers and magazines, including Suddeutsche Zeitung, Granta and the Guardian, where he now works as an editor.
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