During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked whether she would describe in detail what she did on September 27th. Fascinated by the thought of considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of September 27th. The first volume of these notes, which covered 1960 to 2000 was published more than a decade ago. “One Day a Year, 2001-2011” follows suit with Wolf’s notes from the last decade of her life. With her characteristic precision and transparency, Wolf examines the interplay of the private, the subjective and major contemporary events. She writes about Germany after 9/11, about her work on her last great book “City of Angels”, but also about her exhausting confrontation with old age.

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