ENGLISH

German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi

By Paul Cooke , Andrew Plowman (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2003
ISBN
978-1-349-51181-5, 978-1-4039-3875-6
DOI
10.1057/9781403938756
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14336509 bytes)
Series
New Perspectives in German Studies
Edition
1
Pages
XXI, 262\278
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
European Union Politics;European Literature;Twenti

Description

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.

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