Rocking the Wall. Bruce Springsteen: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World:

by Erik Kirschbaum, Herbert Schulte (Photographer), Cindy Opitz (Editor)

Overview

Rocking the Wall explores how the epic Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin on July 19, 1988, changed the world. With behind-the-scenes details, fan interviews, newspaper clippings, and even Stasi files, this book takes you to a journey with Springsteen through the divided city and to the concert grounds where The Boss, live on stage, delivered a speech against the Wall to crowd of more than 300,000 delirious young East Germans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783960260219
Publisher:	Berlinica Publishing LLC
Publication date:	12/01/2023
Series:	Americans in Berlin , #1
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Erik Kirschbaum, a native of New York City and long-time Springsteen fan, has lived in Germany for more than twenty-five years. He is a correspondent for the Reuters international news agency and a non-fiction author, and is based in Berlin since 1993. He has written about entertainment, politics, sports, economics, renewable energy as well as disasters, earthquakes and climate change in nearly thirty countries. He is also a devoted father of four, an enthusiastic cyclist, a solar power entre-preneur and an unabashed crusader for renewable energy. Rocking the Wall is his third book.

Editorial Reviews

"Rocking the Wall also offers a fascinating historical snapshot of Communist cultural officials scrambling to contain the brewing political restlessness all around them."

The Wall Street Journal - Vanessa Fuhrmanns

"It was cultural forces, not merely political or military ones, that won the Cold War … Young East Germans wanted their rock and roll."

The Star Ledger - Tris McCall

"Once in a while you play a place, you play a show that ends up staying inside of you, living with you for the rest of your life.”

The Guardian - Kate Connolly

"… the most politically important rock concert ever held."

Der SPIEGEL - David Crossland

"...a glorious example of the influence that rock ‘n’ roll can have on people who are hungry and ready for change."

The Washington Post - Michelle Martin