English summary: Nowadays, creativity is on everyone's lips: It is regarded as an expression of free thinking, as an artistic, social, and even economic potential. What status, however, did creativity have in a dictatorship such as the former GDR? Based on the work of dancers, musicians and artists of different genres, this book examines the discourse on creativity in the GDR and its connection to the establishment of a performative canon of art that had become relevant since the 1960ies. Fine Kwiatkowski, A.R. Penck, Lutz Dammbeck, Gret Palucca and others: Although their improvisations and...