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...Some people thought it was about how to go cross to West Germany,” Wechsler says...
After graduating from Karl Marx, Wechsler worked as an organizer at a clubhouse before becoming a professional journalist in the ’60s. He supported himself with writings about the United States, a topic of great interest to the East German public. And he assumed the name Victor Grossman, the pseudonym under which Crossing the River will be published next September...
...Wechsler told The Crimson that even in these years there was western television everywhere in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), although the authorities discouraged children from watching it. The East German public struggled to reconcile competing images of cold capitalism with the glamorous America of Hollywood films. Wechsler’s background provided him unique insights into the mysterious United States in politically isolated East Germany...
...Wechsler also penned a best-selling autobiography based on his hitchhiking experiences during his college years and a children’s book about “a hippopotamus who landed...
With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and an inflow of American and West German commercial products, demand for Wechsler’s insights diminished. Wechsler sustained himself during this gap by translating and providing voices for 200 episodes of the television western series Rawhide...