Jenny Erpenbeck Is Keeping Time
When the Berlin Wall fell, some called it the end of history. For Erpenbeck, history just needed saving.
Photographer: Vanja Bucan
Publisher: The New Yorker
Format: Digital
Date: 2021/07/14
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Erpenbeck’s enthusiasm for collecting stories, objects, and her own memories is less an indication of professionalism than of something fundamental about her understanding of time. Photograph by Vanja Bucan for The New YorkerA lock of hair, from Erpenbeck’s youth, that she keeps in a box as a memoir. Photograph by Vanja Bucan for The New YorkerIn Erpenbeck’s Berlin apartment, an entire wall is covered with paper and artifacts from the G.D.R., collected over the course of decades. Photograph by Vanja Bucan for The New YorkerA bust of Erpenbeck, which was given to her on one of her visits to the United States. Photograph by Vanja Bucan for The New Yorker