The GDR-author is one of the most famous writers of Germany. Her death sparked the 2011 great sympathy. Now Christa wolf’s birthday marks the 90. Time.
Among the most important works of Christa Wolf (1929 – 2011) the novels and tales of “Thinking about Christa T.”, “childhood pattern”, “Not a place. Nowhere”, “Kassandra” and “The divided sky”. The focus of her books, women who do not want to accept it, to be a Patriarchal society is exposed to.
For example, Rita Seidel, a teacher, a student, early 20’s, decides, prior to the construction of the Berlin wall, out of inner Conviction, to leave the GDR. Your ten years older Partner Manfred, however, is in the West. The love story is at the heart of the novel, “divided heaven”. Unmistakably is that the author, himself a convinced socialist, and sympathizes with Rita’s DDR-commitment.
Escape from the Red army
Christa Wolf is 33, as the Roman will. She puts it at the top of the GDR-literature. 1965 but their East career gets a shock when she calls at the SED Plenum to the fight against the initiated censorship and the literature. In the West their popularity is increasing, meanwhile, not least by the novel “childhood pattern” (1976).
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“The divided heaven” by Christa Wolf
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It recounts the escape of the Jordan family in front of the Red army to the West. It is a book with strong autobiographical traits. Christa Wolf was, at 18. March born in 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe in today’s Poland. In 1945 the family fled from the Soviet troops and ended up in Mecklenburg.
Even as a high school graduate Christa Wolf party was a member of the SED. Initially, she worked as a researcher and lecturer. In 1962, she then decided to write as a freelance writer books.
Effect far beyond the GDR,
She was awarded the national prize of the GDR and the Georg-Büchner-prize of the Federal Republic of Germany. She was a member of the Academy of arts in the East and the West, and was long before the fall of the wall as the only pan-German writer.
After the fall of the wall, they fought for the preservation of a democratic changes in the GDR. The accusation, to have as a Stasi informant writer-colleagues, spied on, she met in 1993, with the publication of her complete Stasi file.
In 2002 the author was honoured with the German book prize for her life’s work. On 1. December 2011, died in Christa Wolf at the age of 82 years after a long and serious illness.