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Ever since June 1999, when Ilka Schröder was elected to the European Parliament for Germany's environmentalist Greens, the junior partner in Berlin's governing center-left coalition, the pugnacious economics student has been the terror of the Brussels assembly with her provocative political demands and vitriolic verbal attacks...
...editors to receive fellowships. Others include Fannie Flono of The Charlotte Observer; Rhef Beyoung-Gyu of The Hankook Ilbo in Seoul, Korea; Pippa Green of The Sunday Independent in Johannesburg, South Africa; Martin Holguin of El Imparcial in Hermosillo, Mexico; Malou Mangahas of The Manila Times; Ilka Piepgras of the Berliner Zeitung; Masaru Soma of The Sankei Shimbum in Sendai, Japan; Dan Stoica of Radio Romana in Bucharest, and Sun Yu of China Environment News in Beijing...
...reads a tabloid whose back-page headline blares: BANKER'S LOVE NEST. What is wrong with this picture? The paper, of course: the last page of a tabloid always reports sports; it is the front page that broadcasts scandal. This quirky distortion of actuality echoes the work within. Ilka Weissnix is a Viennese greenhorn entering post-World War II America with a few sentences of English, an open face and beautiful legs. She soon encounters Carter Bayoux, a < doomed journalist with several distinguishing characteristics: he is overweight, brilliant, alcoholic and black...
This volatile mixture forms the substance of tragicomedy and fills it with asides that are, like the tabloid, just slightly askew: " 'My ex-wife . . . was a bitch.' Ilka thought that's what she wanted to be--a bitch and a looker. Think of the opportunities!" The voluble, repetitious Bayoux cannot match her lunatic poignancy, but he can be an apt foil and in the end helps to prove that the immigrant novel, from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Lost in America to Lore Segal's Her First American, remains inexhaustible...
Martina Ghersini Andreas Rieclee Ilka Klüssendorf Kaltenkirchen, West Germany...