Ein Amerikaner in Berlin
EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN, Berlin Stories Editorial Director Ralph Martin’s very funny book about how he learned to to love all things Deutsch, is published in German by Dumont Verlag.
EIN AMERIKANER…is the nonfiction tale of an ex-New Yorker who moves to Berlin, settles down, and to his sometimes horrified fascination, becomes German. Ten chapters of culture shock and misadventure cover everything from the German rules of romance to the Teutonic love affair with Aldi to what it feels like to be the only Anglophone father at the local Kita (and how it feels to have a puppet theater pushed onto your head by a crowd of rowdy German preschoolers). It’s funny because it’s true. For more information please go to: www.ralphmartinwrites.com
To buy the book, please click here.
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
[...] Berlin Stories | Ralph Martin’s Book Party August 24 berlinstories.org/2009/08/18/ralph-martins-book-party-august-24 – view page – cached EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN, Berlin Stories Editorial Director Ralph Martin’s very funny book about how he learned to to love all things Deutsch, will be published next week in German by Dumont Verlag. Please join us to celebrate with a short reading (in English) and drinks on Monday night, August 24, at St. Georges Books in Prenzlauerberg. Wörtherstrasse 27, 8:30pm to 11:30pm. — From the page [...]
August 24th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Dear Ralph,
I just laughed out loud while listening to “Lane Discipline”. I spent 5 months in Berlin’s Mitte not so long ago and the whole bike lane situation had my head spinning. NYC doesn’t have bikes on the street so I was literally thrown off of the sidewalk “lanes” countless times by the Berliners. Your description of how they do it is what made me laugh as I now feel so much less alone in the madness of it all. That being said, I have been coming to Berlin yearly since 2001 and I LOVE Berlin as my second home after NYC !!!!!! Here is my little Berlin tribute! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL4pWle51io
I look forward to reading your book if there is an english version!!!???
All the best, Nicole
September 30th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Congratulations on the book, Ralph!
Best wishes,
Andrea