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Christa Wolf (German: [ˈkʁɪs.ta vɔlf] ⓘ; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist. She is considered one of the most important writers to emerge from the former East Germany .
Christa Wolf war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Sie zählte zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellerpersönlichkeiten der DDR und wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, u. a. mit dem Georg-Büchner-Preis. Ihr Werk wurde in viele Sprachen übersetzt.
Christa Wolf (born March 18, 1929, Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany [now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland]—died December 1, 2011, Berlin) was a German novelist, essayist, and screenwriter most often associated with East Germany. Wolf was reared in a middle-class, pro-Nazi family.
Dec 13, 2011 · When Christa Wolf’s memorial is held tonight in Berlin, it won’t be just a farewell to a writer but a national event. Her death, at eighty-two, marks the end of an era in the divided, then ...
Dec 2, 2011 · Christa Wolf, a leading writer from the former East Germany whose novels, stories and essays explored the weight of history on ordinary individuals, especially and controversially including her...
Dec 1, 2011 · Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the communist regime.
Dec 1, 2011 · Christa Wolf, one of Germany's most important postwar novelists and one of the few from East Germany to gain international literary fame, died on Thursday. She was 82.
CHRISTA WOLF IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE to this study both as the author who, in her essay “Lesen und Schreiben,” most effectively articulated her generation's aspiration toward “subjective authenticity” and as the most consistent exponent of this aesthetic in the sequence of her first-person prose works that begins with Nachdenken ...
Summary. CHRISTA WOLF OCCUPIES A SPECIAL SPACE within the landscape of post-Second World War German literature. Legions of scholars have analyzed, interpreted, contextualized, and historicized her work. So much so that it makes one question just how much more insight we can squeeze out of her substantial body of work.
Dec 1, 2011 · Christa Wolf, one of the best known authors from the former East Germany, has died in Berlin at the age of 82 after a long illness. In works including Cassandra and Medea, she explored power ...
