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	Christa Wolf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christa Wolf (born March 18, 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany (currently Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) as Christa Ihlenfeld) is one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.
		Christa Wolf received the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1963, the Georg Büchner Prize in 1980, and the Schiller Memorial Prize in 1983, as well as other national and international awards.
		During the era of the DDR, Wolf was openly critical of the leadership of East Germany, yet she maintained a loyalty to the values of Marx and opposed German reunification.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christa_Wolf (412 words)

	Christa Wolf, Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Stephan Lebert: The quest for Christa Wolf - signandsight
		Christa Wolf: I think that the results of this election are a portrait of the country as it sees itself at the moment: the Germans are at a loss.
		After Wolf Biermann was denaturalised and had to remain in the West, when we were in a difficult position (Christa Wolf was thrown out of the East German writers association after she and other leading East German intellectuals protested against the cancellation of Biermann's East German citizenship -ed.), he came to visit us.
		Christa Wolf was severely reprimanded when the couple signed a declaration of protest against Wolfgang Biermann's being stripped of his East German citizenship in 1976.
	signandsight.com /features/417.html (5446 words)

	Christa Wolf / FemBio: Woman of the Week
		At first celebrated as a new talent of GDR literature, Wolf came to be viewed from the 1960s on as a "loyal dissident," critical of the regime but maintaining her belief in socialism as a better alternative to the capitalist west.
		Christa Wolf "abandoned outmoded ideas of realism once and for all and initiated a new way of viewing the world in literature, which incorporates the consciousness of the author as a perceiving subject" (Magenau).
		Although Christa Wolf was under constant surveillance by the Stasi (State Security Service) because of her deviations from the official line, she was allowed to travel to conferences and for longer visits in the West.
	www.fembio.org /women/christa-wolf.shtml (1369 words)

	Waggish: Cassandra, Christa Wolf: The Ones to Get It In the Neck
		Wolf was a nuclear disarmament unilateralist living in East Germany, and she had no patience for half-measures.
		Of course, it's all seen through Cassandra's eyes, through tight but mercurial narration, and Wolf's attention to her rape by Ajax and her identification with the doomed amazons led by Penthesilia, but Cassandra's personal persecution and the general horrors of the war, for which she is mostly an observer, aren't resolved.
		Wolf's academic polemicism actually shares more with Amos Oz and David Grossman, those Israeli writers for whom the solution to war is obvious yet completely out of reach, and for whom the approach is fundamentally emotive.
	www.waggish.org /2003/03/cassandra_christa_wolf_the_ones_to_get_it_in_the_neck.html (569 words)

	: : : CLSA at SFSU : : : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wolf here refers to the wishful erasure of history, of the disposal of socialist kitsch, which can only occur in a dream since censorship was a personal obstacle for her.
		Christa Wolf does not tell us how that woman had reached her state of happiness, but it is clear that it wasn't through some existential acceptance of absurdity or an individualistic escape into the inner soul.
		Wolf's text has a particular importance in terms of its connotations as a story of female self-realization and as an individual voice searching to recognize itself against the collective society that socialism implies, Auster's narrative holds particular importance in the creation of the young artist struggling to create within a capitalist society.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~clsa/portals/2005/montenegro.html (7568 words)

	Christa Wolf - signandsight
		Christa Wolf was born on March 18, 1929 in Landsberg/Warthe, today Gorzó Wielkopolski in Poland.
		Christa Wolf was attacked in the West as a "hypocrite" and "state poet", whereupon she retired from public life.
		Christa Wolf acknowledged she had been an unofficial informant for the Ministry for State Security.
	www.signandsight.com /features/419.html (985 words)

	Spinning the Web of Life: Feminism, Ecology, and Christa Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christa Wolf, by way of introduction, is a leading writer in the German Democratic Republic and an outspoken critic of both East and West blocs, with regard to their political, social, and underlying philosophical structures.
		Wolf's intent in the novel, as she explains in the essays, was to recreate this event from a new perspective; that of a woman on the "losing side." Cassandra describes how the Trojans' and Greeks' mutual esteem eroded into objectification and hatred of the other, as each nation blinded itself to its own darkness.
		Christa Wolf in turn begins her poetics lectures by inviting the audience/reader to accompany her on a journey which is simultaneously a process, "in a literal as well as a metaphorical sense." Describing her writing as an unfinished web, she adds:
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v7.1/schiwy-rosen.html (9083 words)

	Salon \| Books: Parting from Phantoms
		Wolf is perhaps the best-known writer and intellectual of the former East Germany.
		In 1990, after Wolf published a novella about being watched by the infamous, omnipresent Stasi, the former symbol of East German resistance was crucified for publishing the work only after it was safe.
		"Parting From Phantoms" chronicles Wolf's personal and intellectual post-Wall travails, from a protest speech she gave on the night of the government's collapse to her eloquent defense of her 40 years of adult life under communism (she was 16 at the end of World War II).
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1997/10/17review.html (324 words)

	Christa Wolf's Novel
		In international academic circles, her works are seen as rich fodder for the study of cultural politics and Western feminism as refracted through the experience of a woman living under a notoriously rigid regime.
		In reunified Germany, after Wolf’s collaboration with the Stasi (state intelligence office) in the early 1960s came to light, readers and critics were compelled to re-evaluate her writings and ideological censure.
		Wolf has said the story is based on a personal experience, when she lay gravely ill in a Schwerin clinic in 1988.
	www.echoworld.com /B02/B0203/B0203-11.htm (422 words)

	GN3123/GN3124 Dissent in the GDR: The Case of Christa Wolf : Modern Languages : University of Leicester
		This latter course was the one taken by Christa Wolf, the leading writer of the GDR and one of the most widely translated of post-war German writers.
		Christa Wolf writes in a reflective style which acknowledges both the reality of the external world and the uniqueness of individual subjectivity.
		Christa Wolf is a demanding writer, but the rewards of reading her can be very considerable.
	www.le.ac.uk /modlang/current/german/gn3123_gn3124.html (490 words)

	In the Flesh - Christa Wolf
		The patient is haunted by echoes of a rich culture that seems largely forgotten by the younger doctors and nurses attending her.
		The effect is even more obvious in the German original, but even in the English Wolf's use of extremely short sentences at moments when the patient is particularly weak and lost -- and then longer, more flowing sentences, either when she is stronger or drifting off -- is particularly effective.
		Wolf conveys the feeling of the various stages the patient finds herself at convincingly, from moments of resignation to the surprising changes in the body.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/ddr/wolfc1.htm (1270 words)

	Mr.Wilson, socialism, and Christa Wolf
		Wolf, then living in Halle, was approached and enlisted on March 24, 1958, as an informer to the MfS under the self-chosen name of 'Margarete', and in view of her "leicht unruhige Stimmung", no written obligation was requested from her.
		It is idle to speculate whether Wolf did act so from the naivite of a convinced communist, out of touch with the harsh realities, or whether she knowingly limited her cooperation to a purely formal one "nicht mit der erforderlichen Liebe fuer unsere Aufgaben".
		Thus during the eighties, Christa Wolf, with her adherence to a possibly modified communism/socialism, became a favourite partner for the West German Progressives.
	www.uni-heidelberg.de /subject/hd/fak7/hist/c1/de/gen/gen/grmnhist/log.started930501/mail-26.html (1680 words)

	Goethe-Institut Was bleibt? - Wolf, Christa
		Christa Wolf's fourth book, The Quest for Christa T. appeared the same year that the 'Prague Spring' was violently suppressed, and had a less than welcoming reception from the ideologically-conformist GDR critics - at the 1969 Writers' Congress the book was even attacked.
		Christa T. is not a literary character in the usual sense, and her life is not told in the usual way.
		The author was a close friend and evidently had many other things in common with her, and on the basis of clues left behind by Christa T. after her death from leukaemia the author tries to fathom the deeper meaning of this strange and yet familiar life, constantly referring back to her own experience.
	www.goethe.de /kue/lit/prj/was/wol/enindex.htm (288 words)

	Christa Wolf Biography / Biography of Christa Wolf Literary Biography
		Christa Wolf is one of the most prominent postwar German writers.
		In addition to her fiction, Wolf has done significant work in the essay form, providing a theoretical basis for her oeuvre.
		Christa Ihlenfeld was born in 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe (today Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-christa-wolf-dlb (190 words)

	LIC - Literature in Context - Wolf, Christa
		Christa Wolf was born on March 18, 1929 to a merchant father in Landsberg (in present-day Poland).
		Wolf was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED from 1963-1967.
		In 1976, she co-organised protests against the expatriation of the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann (the polit office of the GDR had decided to expatriate Biermann on November 16 on the grounds that his programme in the FRG criticised the GDR and socialism).
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /lic/autor.asp?aut_id=1048&user_lang_id=4 (608 words)

	Seminar
		This detailed exploration of the work of four women authors of the German Democratic Republic (Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, Helga Königsdorf, and Helga Schubert) singles out the representation of subjectivity as a common denominator in their GDR oeuvre and then follows the careers of three of them (Reimann died in 1973) beyond unification.
		Wolf’s and Reimann’s representations of divided female protagonists pursuing the utopian goal of becoming “whole” (Reimann) or coming to grips with their identities (Wolf) are radical projects under these circumstances.
		Christa T. and Franziska certainly are not women who nod and smile, but they do not therefore merit being called hysterics in any rigorous sense of the term.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /seminar/display.cfm?ReviewID=141 (1026 words)

	new books in german: Jörg Magenau Christa Wolf: Eine Biographie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Throughout it the author draws on Wolf's fiction (Der geteilte Himmel, Nachdenken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster, Kassandra, Was bleibt and so on), and explores and illuminates the complex relationship between an author's personal experiences and the reflection of these in her writing.
		Wolf's loyalty both to the GDR itself and to socialism, and the compromises she and others were compelled to make in order to be able to continue to write in the GDR, are also dealt with.
		For the British and American reader, Christa Wolf is probably one of the very few names known from the GDR literary scene.
	www.new-books-in-german.com /spr2002/book19a.htm (361 words)

	Amazon.com: Medea: Books: Christa Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wolf's Medea never committed any of the crimes she has been charged with; she is, however, a very convenient scapegoat when things start to go wrong and she becomes too inquisitive about what lies beneath the surface of Corinthian society.
		Wolf lifts the Medea myth far beyond the story of sexual jealousy and women's rights you will find in Euripides and other sources - with all due respect to Euripides and co., for in fact Wolf has considered them carefully and uses several quotations, from ancient writers to anthropologists, in her multi-faceted approach.
		Wolf writes with extraordinary compassion and courage, and although the stream of consciousness style (the story is told by several "voices", ranging from Medea and Jason to Medea's ex-pupil, the court astronomers, and even the Corinthian princess intended as Jason's bride) takes a little work, it is absolutely worth it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385490607?v=glance (2142 words)

	Christa Wolf to lead monoprint workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christa Wolf, an artist and visiting fellow at Cornell, will lead a three-part workshop at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on monoprints and how to make them.
		Under Wolf's direction, participants in the workshop will get to explore the museum's collection of monoprints and take part in hands-on studio lessons on the art of the monoprint.
		Wolf, who grew up in Germany, has exhibited her unique monoprints, artist books and art installations in Europe and the United States.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/99/10.28.99/monoprint.html (278 words)

	Christa articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wolf, Christa WOLF, CHRISTA [Wolf, Christa] 1929-, German novelist.
		Ludwig, Christa LUDWIG, CHRISTA [Ludwig, Christa], 1928-, German mezzo-soprano, b.
		The daughter of opera singers, she debuted (1946) as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Frankfurt State Opera and starred at the Vienna State Opera from her debut as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro in 1955 until
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Christa (185 words)

	To Tell the Truth? The East German Literary Debate. Probe the predicament GDR authors currently face. By Monica Munn
		Although written in summer 1979 and reworked ten years later, the story's release date was interpreted as Wolf's belated attempt to redefine her past relationship to the East German state and dissuade criticism that she may have collaborated.
		Christa Wolf was one of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) most popular and well-known writers in East and West; the Western literary world respected her especially for her down-to-earth criticism of the Socialist Unity Party's (SED) regime.
		Wolf Biermann recently suggested in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel that instead of excuses, denial, and silence, a GDR writer's acknowledgment of responsibility could quell future surges of Western criticism.
	www.germanlife.com /Archives/1996/9604_02.html (5380 words)

	The Women’s Spin on War
		Wolf attempts to create a story of war in which a woman is the in forefront in order to illustrate the perils of male domination.
		"For Cassandra in Troy and Wolf in the DDR (German Democratic Republic), one fact especially galls: the arrogant claims of male narrators and male politicians to know, and to compel others to accept, their versions of who women are and what right government is" (McDonald 268).
		Wolf tells The Iliad and other stories from different points of view because they "promote the kind of value systems she opposes" (Russi 23).
	www.davidson.edu /academic/german/denham/cis100f8/students/cassandra.htm (791 words)

	Amazon.com: Cassandra : A Novel and Four Essays: Books: Christa Wolf,Jan Van Heurck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christa Wolf doesn't retell the fall of Troy from the perspective of a female narrator.
		Wolf's Cassandra is a starkly lonely figure, suffering from her isolation even before the seige of Troy begins.
		Wolf's writing is exquisite, but I often felt more like someone sneaking a read at a forbidden diary, where I felt at the mercy of the revelations the writer felt like making.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374519048?v=glance (1988 words)

	Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0374519048
		Cassandra by Christa Wolf is a quite difficult (at times frighteningly difficult) work, but a proper understanding allowed me to remain absorbed in the plot.
		Wolf dips her toes into Aeschylus' ocean of ideas, shrinks back from the cold, and retreats to the comfort of the sand.
		Wolf is careful to point to the mutability of sexual roles (Anchises and Penthesilea offer superb examples) and the significance of a dualistic appreciation of culturally-derived gender tendencies.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0374519048 (1063 words)

	Christa Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Subject: Christa Wolf I should like to join Karin Lueders, Walter Felscher, and Hans Rollmann in urging my fellow Germanists to consider carefully whether signing the statement protesting the admittedly somewhat intemperate criticism of Christa Wolf is such a good idea.
		It seems to me that all that has happened is that Christa Wolf is merely being asked to explain her own actions after years of convenient forgetfulness.
		Christa Wolf is a talented and important writer.
	www.uni-heidelberg.de /subject/hd/fak7/hist/c1/de/gen/gen/grmnhist/log.started930501/mail-20.html (225 words)

	Wolf Christa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wolf Christa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wolf, Christa (1929- ), novelist and essayist of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
		Wolf, Christa, Speech, Berlin (quotations): Revolution: Every revolutionary movement also liberates…
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wolf_Christa.html (101 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Christa WOLF
		Wolf, Christa Patterns of Childhood: (formerly A Model Childhood) / Christa Wolf ; translated by Ursule Molinaro and Hedwig Rappolt Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984, c1980.
		Wolf, Christa / Becker, Joan Translator The Reader and the Writer: Essays, Sketches, Memories Publisher: International Publishers New York 1977.
		In this anthology of her critical writings, availaible for the first time in English, Christa Wolf examines the individual's, particularly the writer's, relationship to society.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Christa_WOLF (642 words)

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