His children’s books are on shelves all over the country; young people have learned from him what role the year 1848 plays in German history and how the Stasi worked. The author Klaus Kordon will be 80 years old next week. Time to talk to him in his self-proclaimed Berlin “novel factory” about rich youth among poor people, about being a boss in the GDR, about his escape from there in 1972 – and about capitalism.
Klaus Kordon: “I’m just more interested in the weak” – Economy
