Barbara Honigmann's Life and Work in Strasbourg

The article profiles writer Barbara Honigmann, who left East Berlin in 1984 and now resides in Strasbourg. It describes her current living situation in a 1950s-era building in the Rue Edel, which she has characterized in her book 'Chronik meiner Straße' as the 'second ugliest house' on the street. The piece notes the contrast between her departure from East Germany and her present environment, which retains a socialist-era aesthetic, facing a gray concrete building occupied by a French telecommunications company.