Reminiscences on Life Experiences in the GDR in 1984: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Sarah Stephens is co-founder and president of Stephens Nicolson Artists Management, an international agency for opera based in New York and Berlin. She received a BA and MA in German Literature from the University of Minnesota and was one of the few Americans outside the diplomatic service who lived and worked in the German Democratic Republic.  As a guest lecturer at the Humboldt University in East Berlin in 1984, she was able to experience life in the GDR from inside the Iron Curtain.

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