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Voices in Times of Change : The Role of Writers, Opposition Movements, and the Churches in the Transformation of East Germany / ed. by David Rock.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture & Society in Germany ; 3Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2000]Copyright date: 2000Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800734005
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.09431 21
LOC classification:
  • DD287.3 .V65 2000
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION Voices of Writers, Opposition Movements and the Churches: their Role in Preparing the Way for the Wende -- CHAPTER 1 Intellectuals and the Transformation of East Germany -- CHAPTER 2 Changing Fortunes: Church and Society in Eastern Germany Before and After the Wende -- CHAPTER 3 The Fortunes of GDR Civil Rights Groups and Opposition Movements since the Wende -- CHAPTER 4 Friedrich Schorlemmer: Speaking Out for the Individual -- CHAPTER 5 A Dissident Life -- CHAPTER 6 Intellectuals, Citizens and Writers in East Germany – Before and After the Wende -- CHAPTER 7 Stefan Heym and the Transformation of East Germany -- CHAPTER 8 Writers in Times of Change -- CHAPTER 9 Von Abraham bis Zwerenz. An Anthology for Unification? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume offers an overview of the role of writers, intellectuals, citizens, and the churches both before, but particularly after, 1989 in the GDR and the new Germany. Friedrich Schorlemmer provides the focal point, giving the book its coherence. Issues related to his role in the GDR church and citizens movement are examined, as well as his support for GDR writers both before and after unification, and his own writings on east and west German literature. After general surveys on intellectuals, civil rights groups, opposition movements, and churches in the transformation of east Germany the volume focuses on Friedrich Schorlemmer himself: a chapter on the significance of the role that he played is followed by interviews with him and an original essay by him, giving his personal view of the role of intellectuals, citizens, and writers in east Germany. The volume is rounded off by a chapter on the reactions of lesser known writers, and, finally, on the responses of prominent GDR writers to unification and on the changing role of writers in society. Combining literary and cultural with social and political analysis, this volume provides a lively and multifaceted picture of the new Germany.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION Voices of Writers, Opposition Movements and the Churches: their Role in Preparing the Way for the Wende -- CHAPTER 1 Intellectuals and the Transformation of East Germany -- CHAPTER 2 Changing Fortunes: Church and Society in Eastern Germany Before and After the Wende -- CHAPTER 3 The Fortunes of GDR Civil Rights Groups and Opposition Movements since the Wende -- CHAPTER 4 Friedrich Schorlemmer: Speaking Out for the Individual -- CHAPTER 5 A Dissident Life -- CHAPTER 6 Intellectuals, Citizens and Writers in East Germany – Before and After the Wende -- CHAPTER 7 Stefan Heym and the Transformation of East Germany -- CHAPTER 8 Writers in Times of Change -- CHAPTER 9 Von Abraham bis Zwerenz. An Anthology for Unification? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume offers an overview of the role of writers, intellectuals, citizens, and the churches both before, but particularly after, 1989 in the GDR and the new Germany. Friedrich Schorlemmer provides the focal point, giving the book its coherence. Issues related to his role in the GDR church and citizens movement are examined, as well as his support for GDR writers both before and after unification, and his own writings on east and west German literature. After general surveys on intellectuals, civil rights groups, opposition movements, and churches in the transformation of east Germany the volume focuses on Friedrich Schorlemmer himself: a chapter on the significance of the role that he played is followed by interviews with him and an original essay by him, giving his personal view of the role of intellectuals, citizens, and writers in east Germany. The volume is rounded off by a chapter on the reactions of lesser known writers, and, finally, on the responses of prominent GDR writers to unification and on the changing role of writers in society. Combining literary and cultural with social and political analysis, this volume provides a lively and multifaceted picture of the new Germany.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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