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German Writers and the Politics of Culture Paul Cooke

German Writers and the Politics of Culture By Paul Cooke

German Writers and the Politics of Culture by Paul Cooke

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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.

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German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi by Paul Cooke

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.

About Paul Cooke

MICHAEL BUTLER Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Birmingham, UK CAROL ANNE COSTABILE-HEMING Associate Professor of German, Southwest Missouri Satte Univesrity, USA MIKE DENNIS Professor of Modern German History, University of Wolverhampton, UK OWEN EVANS Lecturer in German, University of Wales, Bangor, UK STEPHEN J. EVANS University of Wales, Swansea, UK KRISTIE FOELL Associate Professor of German, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA ALISON LEWIS Lecturer, Department of German and Swedish Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia GEORGINA PAUL Lecturer in German Studies, University of Warwick, UK JULIAN PREECE University of Kent, UK KARL-HEINZ SCHOEPS Professor Emeritus of German, University of Illinois, USA DENNIS TATE Professor of German Studies, University of Bath, UK JILL TWARK Assistant Professor of German, East Carolina University, USA REINHARD K. ZACHAU Professor of German, University of the South (Sewanee), USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; P.Cooke & A.Plowman PART I The East German Ministry of State Security and East German Society During the Honecker Era, 1971-1989; M.Dennis Uwe Johnson's Awkward Legacy: A Sympathetic Secret Policeman of the pre-Stasi Era; D.Tate The Stasi as the Force of Evil: Collin's Faustian Struggle with the Stasi Boss Urack in Stefan Heym's Collin; R.K.Zachau 'Die Tragikomoedie Deutschland': Scenes from No Man's Land in Martin Walser's Dorle und Wolf; M.Butler Tallhover or the Eternal Spy: Hans Joachim Schadlich's Stasi-Novel Tallhover; K-H.Schoeps PART II 'Ich, Seherin, gehoerte zum Palast': Christa Wolf's Literary Treatment of the Stasi in the Context of her Poetics of Self-Analysis; G.Paul 'Koennte man sagen, du seist ein Spioenchen?': Erich Loest's Fallhoehe; S.J.Evans Telling Tales: Moral Responsibility and the Stasi in Uwe Saeger's Die Nacht danach und der Morgen: O.Evans The Stasi as Panopticon: Wolfgang Hilbig's Ich; P.Cooke The Stasi, the Confession and Performing Difference: Brigitte Burmeister's Unter dem Namen Norma; A.Lewis 'Bekenntnissedes Stasi-Hochstaplers Klaus Uhltzscht': Thomas Brussig's Comical and Controversial Helden wie wir; K.Foell & J.Twark The Stasi as Literary Conceit: Gunter Grass's Ein weites Feld; J.Preece Jurgen Fuchs: Documenting Life, Death and the Stasi; C.A.Costabile-Heming Escaping the Autobiographical Trap? Monika Maron, the Stasi and Pawels Briefe; A.Plowman Bibliography Index

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NLS9781349511815
9781349511815
1349511811
German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi by Paul Cooke
Paul Cooke
New Perspectives in German Political Studies
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2003-12-09
262
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