German Writers & The Politics Of Culture
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime. However, since unification, Germany has been rocked by scandals showing the level to which the Stasi, the East German Secret Police, controlled these same writers. This is the first study in English to systematically explore how the writers have responded to the challenge of...
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Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime. However, since unification, Germany has been rocked by scandals showing the level to which the Stasi, the East German Secret Police, controlled these same writers. This is the first study in English to systematically explore how the writers have responded to the challenge of dealing with the Stasi from the 1950s to the present day.
AcknowledgementsNotes on the ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1The East German Ministry of State Security and East German Society during the Honecker Era, 1971-198932Uwe Johnson's Awkward Legacy: A Sympathetic Secret Policeman of the pre-Stasi Era253The Stasi as the Force of Evil: Collin's Faustian Struggle with the Stasi Boss Urack in Stefan Heym's Collin414'Die Tragikomodie Deutschland': Scenes from No Man's Land in Martin Walser's Dorle und Wolf575Tallhover or the Eternal Spy: Hans Joachim Schadlich's Stasi-Novel Tallhover716'Ich, Seherin, gehorte zum Palast': Christa Wolf's Literary Treatment of the Stasi in the Context of her Poetics of Self-Analysis877'Konnte man sagen, du seist ein Spionchen?': Erich Loest's Fallhohe1078Telling Tales: Moral Responsibility and the Stasi in Uwe Saeger's Die Nacht danach und der Morgen1219The Stasi as Panopticon: Wolfgang Hilbig's "Ich"13910The Stasi, the Confession and Performing Difference: Brigitte Burmeister's Unter dem Namen Norma15511'Bekenntnisse des Stasi-Hochstaplers Klaus Uhltzscht': Thomas Brussig's Comical and Controversial Helden wie wir17312The Stasi as Literary Conceit: Gunter Grass's Ein weites Feld19513Jurgen Fuchs: Documenting Life, Death and the Stasi21314Escaping the Autobiographical Trap? Monika Maron, the Stasi and Pawels Briefe227Bibliography243Index257
