Ruf! Mich! An!
2000 novel by Else Buschheuer
Ruf! Mich! An! (Call! Me!) is a German novel published in 2000, Else Buschheuer's first. Widely described as soft porn, it was a best-seller, and although disliked by most reviewers when it first appeared, has since been much discussed by critics, some of whom argue that its seriousness was underrated.
Background
Buschheuer is from East Germany and after German reunification wrote a column for a magazine for East Germans, Super-Ossi, under the name die rasende Else (raging Else), then became a TV editor and reporter. When she wrote the book she had been a weather reporter for three years, an unusually fast and successful adjustment to capitalism. The novel reads as if written by a West German, a critic wrote in Die Welt.
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