The literature in the GDR include all plants that have emerged since 1945 in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR
first Conditions of literature in the GDR
- In July 1945, under the leadership of the writer Johannes R. Becher, the Cultural Association for democratic renewal of Germany founded. The democratic and anti-fascist character of the "Cultural Association" is emphasized by authors with antisozialistischem background, such as Gerhard Hauptmann and Thomas Mann.
- The creation of the FRG and GDR, shares the cultural life in 1949 in two.
- 1950, the doctrine of Socialist Realism: The principles of life authenticity, popularity, social optimism and partiality must be followed by the authors.
- 1953 fights break publicly against the socialist realism ("Only boots can be made to measure.")
- 1954 is founded the Leipzig Institute of Literature, due to the demand that artists will go into production in order to make the socialist daily artistic.
- 1956 call for writers the freedom of art and spirit.
- Under the slogan "Pick up your pen pal," a conference held in 1959 in Bitterfeld - 5 years later the project is considered
failed - An internal stabilization of the communist state will take place because of the Wall 1961st
- 1968 is accused because of her novel "The Quest for Christa T.", a pessimistic attitude
- Erich Honecker (new first secretary of the Central Committee of the SED), "If we start from the fixed position of socialism, it is my view on the field of art and literature no taboos "
-. In 1975, the Final Act of the Helsinki conference is signed - 125 000 citizens are leaving the applications for the FRG
- authors such as Christa Wolf, Sarah Kirsch, Stefan Heym protest against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann
- 1977 follows the Stasi all writers who refuse to protest against Biermann's expatriation back -> Reiner Kunze, Sarah Kirsch, Jurek Becker, Jurgen Fuchs and Hans Joachim Harmful to leave the GDR
- 1979 - Sanctions against publications of several novels in the West
- 1980 follows the Stasi still all critical writer, before they leave the GDR
- 1983: Foundation of independent journal Mikado
- 1987 Ford Gunter de Bruyn and Christoph Hein publicly for the abolition of censorship
- 1988: Demonstrations in memory of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht -> arrest of 120 members of peace and human rights groups
- 1989 - 40 - anniversary of the GDR - the opening of borders on 9 November - Lutz Rathenow writes about the end of the communist state: "Stay the GDR is the demand, what's left of it. And it will often be talking to her. Even if her name is not at all. "
Among the most important writer in the GDR include Bernitzke Reinhard, Jürgen Fuchs, Reiner Kunze, Christoph Hein and Christa Wolf, Volker Braun, and Morgan Irmtraud.
The texts from the time of the GDR are not the same today as then. The readers have used the social relations under socialism carried automatically in the back of the head, whereas now it is this way of thinking of the past. With the disappearance of the GDR and its structures disappear also a kind of reality of the texts, the dimension of their existence. Today, therefore, the texts are seen and interpreted differently than before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
second Christa Wolf - The Quest for Christa T. (detail in Kennwort13, p. 219F)
Christa T. is dying of leukemia, but it suffers from the GDR. "(Marcel Reich-Ranicki)
dies at the age of 35, a friend of the author Christa T. 1963 leukemia. After her death, Christa Wolf tries to understand the basis of records left behind. Christa T. was broken in the conflict between their personal expectations and those of society. "She shrugged, afraid to take even impose a name, the brand with which they herd in which the stable has to go." In the introduction
insured Christa Wolf, Christa T. was a literary figure, but the many autobiographical features are still evident.
As in the novels of Max Frisch, invited the reader that happen to reconstruct them from different perspectives. On the Writers' Congress in 1969 erupted into a fight over Christa Wolf's Roma, who helped make writers painted a critical picture of reality and oriented to the experimental forms of Western literature. The "new subjectivity" of the 70's now spread not only in the West but also among the writers of the GDR.
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