CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Family Trees
Maps
Author's Note
Prologue
Part I: Glienicke
1. Wollank, 1890
2. Wollank, 1913
3. Alexander, 1927
4. Alexander, 1928
5. Wollank, 1929
6. Alexander, 1930
7. Schultz, 1934
8. Alexander, 1934
Part II: The Lake House
Interlude, August 2013
9. Meisel, 1937
10. Meisel, 1937
11. Meisel, 1942
12. Hartmann, 1944
13. Hartmann, 1945
14. Hartmann, 1945
15. Meisel, 1946
16. Meisel, 1948
17. Meisel, 1949
Part III: Home
Interlude, December 2013
18. Fuhrmann, 1952
19. Fuhrmann and Kühne, 1958 216
20. Fuhrmann and Kühne, 1959
21. Fuhrmann and Kühne, 1961
22. Fuhrmann and Kühne, 1962
Part IV: Villa Wolfgang
Interlude, January 2014
23. Kühne, 1965
24. Kühne, 1970
25. Kühne, 1975
26. Kühne, 1986
27. Kühne, 1989
28. Kühne, 1990
29. Kühne, 1993
30. Kühne, 1999
Part V: Parcel Number 101/7 and 101/8
Interlude, February 2014
31. City of Potsdam, 2003
32. City of Potsdam, 2004
33. City of Potsdam, 2014
Epilogue
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The lake house, July 2013 (Thomas Harding)
2. Otto Wollank (Wollank Family Archive)
3. Dorothea von Wollank (Ullstein/ Topfoto)
4. Groß Glienicke Lake, photograph by Lotte Jacobi, 1928 (Alexander Family Archive)
5. The lake house, photograph by Lotte Jacobi, 1928 (Alexander Family Archive)
6. Henny Alexander on the lake house veranda (Alexander Family Archive)
7. Alfred Alexander in the garden at Glienicke (Alexander Family Archive)
8. Alfred (front centre), Elsie and Bella (back row left) and friends at the lake, 1928 (Alexander Family Archive)
9. Otto and Dorothea von Wollank's funeral procession, 1929 (Groß Glienicke Chronik)
10. Robert von Schultz (Landesarchiv Berlin)
11. Joseph Goebbels calls for Jewish boycott, Berlin, 1 April 1933 (USHMM/ National Archives, College Park)
12. Fritz Munk with Alfred and Henny Alexander, Groß Glienicke (Munk Family Archive)
13. 'Jews are barred from entering' sign, Wannsee, 1935 (SZ Photo/Scherl/Bridgeman Images)
14. Will Meisel (Edition Meisel GmbH)
15. Eliza Illiard in Paganini (Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen)
16. Will Meisel at the lake house (Edition Meisel GmbH)
17. Hanns Hartmann (WDR/Liselotte Strelow)
18. Gatowairfield, with Groß Glienicke Lake visible (top left) (National Archive London)
19. Wolfgang Kühne (Bernd Kühne)
20. Lake house 1960s (Bernd Kühne)
21. Berlin border fence, Groß Glienicke Lake, 1961 (Groß Glienicke Chronik)
22. Berlin Wall layout (Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik)
23. View of Berlin Wall from Groß Glienicke Lake (Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik)
24. Thälmann Pioneers meet soldiers, Groß Glienicke (Groß Glienicke Chronik)
25. Berlin Wall with view of Groß Glienicke Lake and islands (AKG)
26. Intershop, East Berlin, 1979 (AKG)
Delft tiles in lake house living room (Thomas Harding)
27. Scene of Ulrich Steinhauer murder with Steinhauer's body visible, far left (Der Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik)
28. Border crossing opens at Groß Glienicke, 1989 (Andreas Kalesse)
29. Bernd Kühne's child on border path, 1989 (Bernd Kühne)
30. View of the house from the lake shore, 1990s (Alexander Family Archive)
31. Inge Kühne, Elsie Harding and Wolfgang Kühne (left to right) at the lake house, 1993 (Alexander Family Archive)
32. Lake house, 1990s (Alexander Family Archive)
33. Marcel, Matthias and Roland (left to right) (Marcel Adam)
34. Boys' room (Thomas Harding)
35. Tree growing through brick terrace (Thomas Harding)
36. Clean-up Day, April 2014 (Sam Cackler Harding)
37. Denkmal ceremony, August 2014 (Sam Cackler Harding)
38. Groß Glienicke Lake (Thomas Harding)
