Christoph Hein: "The East Resists Through This Fatal AfD Vote

Christoph Hein's new novel "Das Narrenschiff", already a bestseller, is said to be Christoph Hein's final work on the GDR, he says in the RND interview. Much can be learned from their history. However, he does not see the alienation between East and West or the successes of the AfD as an inheritance of the GDR.

East German writer Christoph Hein considers the AfD's successes in the East to be a defiant reaction against the West. "The AfD's strength is a defiant reaction of people who are disappointed for a variety of reasons," Hein told the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland). East Germans feel like they are "leading a life without self-determination and then fighting back with the means at their disposal" – especially "thr…