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Hustles Behind the Wall

Sunday, February 26, 1984: From Fairground Jobs to Porn Masks.

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Tommy H. Jannot
Oct 12, 2025
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Authentic portrait of me as a teenager, around 1981 in Halle-Neustadt

Seven weeks. Three cells. Two books. One hope. Pretrial detention can be incredibly boring. Back to the year 1981.

The German edition of 1984, The Eighteen-Year-Old Who Wrote a Note and Disappeared is now available worldwide in bookstores as a hardcover, paperback, and e-book. You can o…

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