Patterns of Childhood

Patterns of Childhood is the work of the German writer Christa Wolf. The author, who lived in East Germany and worked, describes in this work in three interwoven temporal levels a childhood during the Hitler regime in Landsberg ( Warta ), the flight to the war from there as well as a journey into adulthood with husband, brother and daughter in the summer of 1971 from East Berlin into today Gorzów Wielkopolski. The places not to be named. It is only the " birthplace " L. and the " destination " G. for visa procurement talk. It is not told in chronological order (linear), the experiences of the past are visualized instead. The book thus deals with coping with the past and has autobiographical elements.

The book was published in 1976.

Philipp Ther wrote in 1998, " Critical Studies on the History tape 127 ":

" In the GDR research on the flight and expulsion of Germans from 1944 to 1950 with regard to the Soviet Union and the socialist countries were completely taboo. A groundbreaking violation of this taboo was the novel, A Model Childhood ' by Christa Wolf, published in 1976. "