Reizland DDR

Reizland DDR

by Helmut Peitsch, Andreas Degen, Margrid Bircken

Part of V&R Academic

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Die Migration von etwa einer halben Million Menschen aus westlichen Ländern in die DDR ist wenig erforscht. Dies gilt auch für das Gebiet der Literatur. Was so unterschiedliche Autoren wie Anna Seghers, Arnolt Bronnen, Heinar Kipphardt, Adolf Endler, Wolf Biermann, Gisela Kraft oder Ronald M. Schernikau verbindet, ist, sich einmal für ein Leben in der DDR entschieden zu haben. Einige von ihnen fanden in der sozialistischen Wahlheimat ihre Themen und ihr Publikum: häufig in zunehmender Distanz zur Kulturpolitik, mitunter auch in großer Nähe. Andere kehrten dem Land nach wenigen Jahren enttäuscht oder verbittert wieder den Rücken oder wurden hinausgedrängt. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit den Motiven, Umständen, biographischen Konsequenzen, Selbstdeutungen und literarischen Resultaten der Übersiedlung in die SBZ bzw. in die DDR zwischen 1945 und 1989. -- The migration of half a million people from the West of Germany to the East is one of the little-explored areas in the history of the Cold War. This also applies to the field of literature. What such diverse authors as Anna Seghers, Arnolt Bronnen, Heinar Kipphardt, Adolf Endler, Wolf Biermann, Gisela Kraft or Ronald M. Schernikau connected is to have decided on one occasion to live in the GDR. Some of them have found in the socialist country their themes and their audience: often in increasing distance to cultural policy, sometimes in close proximity. Others left the adopted country after a few years disappointed and bitter or were forced out. The contributions in this volume deal with the motives, circumstances, biographical consequences, self-interpretations and literary results of the migration in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and in the GDR from 1945 to 1989. --

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