Katrin Askan (1966) is a German author. She was born in East Germany, but in 1986, three years before the changes that finally adumbrated an end to the one-party dictatorship, she managed to escape to the west. A (slightly) fictionalised version of the long build-up to the event and of the escape itself, with a powerful resonance of authenticity, constitutes the core of her 2000 novel "Aus dem Schneider".[1][2][3]
- ^ Michael Adrian (8 September 2000). ""Aus dem Schneider": Vor der Flucht - Katrin Askan lässt Fragen offen". Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, Berlin. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ Hajo Steinert (25 May 2000). "Katrin Askan: Aus dem Schneider Roman Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2000 298 S. (review)". Die Zeit (online). Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ "Katrin Askan Aus dem Schneider". reviews from Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung & Süddeutsche Zeitung. Perlentaucher Medien GmbH, Berlin. Retrieved 29 December 2019.