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German Writers and the Politics of Culture

Dealing with the Stasi

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Paul Cooke

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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  2. Andrew Plowman

    1. School of Modern Languages, University of Liverpool, UK

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Part of the book series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies (NPG)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. ‘Ich, Seherin, gehörte zum Palast’: Christa Wolf’s Literary Treatment of the Stasi in the Context of her Poetics of Self-Analysis

      • Georgina Paul
      Pages 87-106

    3. ‘Könnte man sagen, du seist ein Spiönchen?’: Erich Loest’s Fallhöhe

      • Stephen J. Evans
      Pages 107-120

    4. Telling Tales: Moral Responsibility and the Stasi in Uwe Saeger’s Die Nacht danach und der Morgen

      • Owen Evans
      Pages 121-138

    5. The Stasi as Panopticon: Wolfgang Hilbig’s »Ich«

      • Paul Cooke
      Pages 139-153

    6. The Stasi, the Confession and Performing Difference: Brigitte Burmeister’s Unter dem Namen Norma

      • Alison Lewis
      Pages 155-172

    7. ‘Bekenntnisse des Stasi-Hochstaplers Klaus Uhltzscht’: Thomas Brussig’s Comical and Controversial Helden wie wir

      • Kristie Foell, Jill Twark
      Pages 173-194

    8. The Stasi as Literary Conceit: Günter Grass’s Ein weites Feld

      • Julian Preece
      Pages 195-212

    9. Jürgen Fuchs: Documenting Life, Death and the Stasi

      • Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
      Pages 213-226

    10. Escaping the Autobiographical Trap? Monika Maron, the Stasi and Pawels Briefe

      • Andrew Plowman
      Pages 227-242

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 243-262
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Paul Cooke

  • School of Modern Languages, University of Liverpool, UK

    Andrew Plowman

About the editors

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

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