Irina Liebmann
Irina Liebmann is a German journalist-author and sinologist of
Russo-German provenance. She has won a number of important literary prizes: the most significant of these, probably, was the
2008 Leipzig Book Fair non-fiction Prize, awarded for "Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!", a biography of
her father, a noted
anti-Nazi activist and political exile in Warsaw and Moscow who, after
1945, returned to
what became, in 1949, the
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and in 1953, despite his longstanding record of
communist activism, emerged as an uncompromising critic of the East German leader
Walter Ulbricht: he was expelled from
the party and suffered various other government mandated public indignities. She grew up and lived the first part of her adult life in the
German Democratic Republic, but succeeded in moving to
West Berlin during 1988, thereby anticipating
reunification by more than a year.
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