Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir

by Adrian Piper

In 2005 Adrian Piper secretly emigrated from the United States. Several months passed before anyone realized she had disappeared. She resurfaced in Berlin and has lived there ever since. Piper has consistently and firmly refused to return to the U.S. or explain why she left. Many assume it was because she discovered her name on the U.S. Department of Transportation Security’s Suspicious Travelers Watch List. Others point to Wellesley College’s forcible termination of her tenured Full Professorship. Yet others speculate that George W. Bush’s presidency, or American racism, or the invasion of Iraq compelled her to leave. All of these conjectures are groundless. Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir is a gripping autobiographical narrative that provides a full account of the facts.

Genres: Memoir

328 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is a first-generation Conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City. Since 2005 she has lived and worked in Berlin, where she runs the APRA Foundation Berlin and edits The Berlin Journal of Philosophy.

Reviews

[ice_butch .jpg · Rating 5 out of 5]

First read this over&over in 2019 when I made the Kings College library buy a copy under Erin's name lol, obv had to return it before leaving the UK. Finally have my own copy, so far it's just as good as I remember. Dream book, perfect in the hands and the head.

[Alfonso Romero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bad tripping (an escape) to the inner self.

[nina · Rating 5 out of 5]

read for a final research project. we will never forget what they did to you