My life - before and after the wall

When Emilie suddenly suffers a brain aneurysm during a skiing holiday, her husband Johan is brutally torn out of his previously comfortable life. This prompts him to review his past life, starting with his childhood on an "e;organic"e; farm and his career as an engineer in the GDR, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and what happened afterwards... Johan, alias "e;Blender"e;, under which name the protagonist the Stasi, the East German secret police, has been a teetotaller, with many temptations in many places... In addition, the death-defying adventurer discovers his passion for mountaineering; he wants to conquer the highest peaks on earth, whatever the cost. But will he be able to defy the borderline experience of death?