German writers and the politics of culture : dealing with the Stasi / edited by Paul Cooke and Andrew Plowman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooke, Paul, 1969-

Plowman, Andrew, 1966-

Series:

New perspectives in German studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.

Germany (East).

German literature--Political aspects--Germany (East).

German literature.

German literature--Political aspects.

German literature--Germany (East)--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 262 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.

ISBN:

1403913269

OCLC:

52459899