Fly Over the Wall

•A great love, a daring plan and the flight to freedom

•On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

•With lots of photos and accompanying material

In 1965, in the shadow of the Cold War two students fall in love: Isolde from East Berlin and Hans Christian from Stockholm. The Berlin Wall has just turned four and is heavily guarded. Hundreds of East German refugees have already been arrested or killed attempting to get over it. Now it is also an obstacle to the happiness of this young couple. But true love knows no boundaries. And so the two of them develop a daring plan: Hans Christian is to learn how to fly in order to take Isolde over the Iron Curtain. After nine months and forty hours of flying, he is ready. As a new pilot the young Swede flies off to bring the love of his life to freedom...

 

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  • Publisher: Knaur HC
  • Release: 02.09.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-21456-5
  • 248 Pages
  • Authors: Isolde CarsHans Christian Cars
Fly Over the Wall
Isolde Cars Hans Christian Cars Fly Over the Wall
Bildbearbeitung: Emil Ems
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Isolde Cars

Hans Christian Cars was born in 1939 and grew up in Stockholm. He gained a doctorate in economics in 1975. Between 1977 and 1987, he worked as the deputy director of the Swedish ministry of defence, from 1987 to 1993, he was the head of finance for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), from 1993 to 97 he was chief administrator of OSCE and between 1997 and 2002 he held the position of the director of IABO. All of his international offices were based in Vienna. Between 2002 and 2004, he was the director of the OSCE mission in Kosovo.

Isolde Cars began studying medicine at the Humboldt University in East Berlin, and after her escape from East Germany completed her studies in Bonn in 1970. She trained as an eye specialist in Stockholm, where she worked until 1987 and then in Vienna until she retired.

The couple have lived in Vienna since 1987 but they spend every summer in their holiday home in the Stockholm Archipelago.

Bildbearbeitung: Emil Ems
© Bildbearbeitung: Emil Ems
Hans Christian Cars

Hans Christian Cars was born in 1939 and grew up in Stockholm. He gained a doctorate in economics in 1975. Between 1977 and 1987, he worked as the deputy director of the Swedish ministry of defence, from 1987 to 1993, he was the head of finance for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), from 1993 to 97 he was chief administrator of OSCE and between 1997 and 2002 he held the position of the director of IABO. All of his international offices were based in Vienna. Between 2002 and 2004, he was the director of the OSCE mission in Kosovo.

Isolde Cars began studying medicine at the Humboldt University in East Berlin, and after her escape from East Germany completed her studies in Bonn in 1970. She trained as an eye specialist in Stockholm, where she worked until 1987 and then in Vienna until she retired.

The couple have lived in Vienna since 1987 but they spend every summer in their holiday home in the Stockholm Archipelago.