Die Autorin Christa Wolf ist immer auch eine Leserin gewesen. In ihren Essays und Reden, die hier versammelt sind, würdigt sie ihre literarischen Vorbilder und setzt sich mit Werken auseinander, die für ihr eigenes Schreiben wichtig waren und sind. So eröffnet sie z. B. neue Zugänge zur Lyrik von Nelly Sachs und fragt:"Was wäre heute human?"So geht sie mit Heinrich Böll auf die"Suche nach einer bewohnbaren Sprache in einem bewohnbaren Land"und holt auch bei der Betrachtung der Werke von Anna Seghers, Volker Braun, Inge Müller, Brigitte Reimann, Maxie Wander oder Irmtraud Morgner stets...
Die Autorin Christa Wolf ist immer auch eine Leserin gewesen. In ihren Essays und Reden, die hier versammelt sind, würdigt sie ihre literarischen Vor...
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961.
The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war tension between the East Bloc and the West, a time when many thousands of people were leaving the young German Democratic Republic (the GDR) every day in order to seek better lives in...
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany...
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life, as she said, You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye. Augustis Christa Wolf s last piece of fiction, written in a single...
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her f...
