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  1. Writing in red. The East German writers union and the role of literary intellectuals
    Autor*in: Goldstein, Thomas W.
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd., Woodbridge ; JSTOR, New York, NY

    In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said. Its chief task was... mehr

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    In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said. Its chief task was ideological: creating a socialist and antifascist culture. But it was also supposed to advance its members' professional interests and enable them to act as public intellectuals with a say in the direction of socialism. Many writers demanded that it pursue this second function as well, which brought it into conflict with the SED. This book explores how the union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR society with consequences well beyond the literary community. Union leaders, pressured by the SED or the secret police, usually acquiesced in enforcing regime demands, but by the 1980s many authors had adapted to the rules of the game, exploiting their union membership to insulate themselves from reprisal for their carefully worded critiques and in so doing beginning to break down limitations on public speech. The book explores how and why in the 1970s the Writers Union helped normalize relations between writers and state, yet over the course of the 1980s inadvertently aided the expansion of permissible speech, ultimately helping destabilize the East German system.

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787441651; 1787441652
    DDC Klassifikation: Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur (830)
    Schriftenreihe: German History in Context
    Schlagworte: Intellektueller; Schriftsteller
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index