Christa Wolf, a GDR intellectual, was discredited as a writer after German Unification.
How is it possible that one writers literature is praised universally as
"critical" one moment, and denigrated as banal and simply moralistic the
next? As a response to the controversy around Christa Wolf, this work
attempts to understand Wolf less as an isolated "writer" than as an "effect" of
political and cultural discourse about the GDR in the Federal Republic of
Germany prior to unification and in united Germany after 1989. However, in
this book Wolfs own opinions about her role as intellectual active...