Open AccessWir sind Halbierte. Die Entdeckung der DDR in der westdeutschen Literatur vor 1989
Author(s) -
Albert Meier
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
studia germanica posnaniensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-7013
pISSN - 0137-2467
DOI - 10.14746/sgp.2016.37.16
Subject(s) - german , german literature , feeling , humanities , west germany , poetry , narrative , art , art history , history , philosophy , literature , economic history , linguistics , epistemology
West German literature has turned its back to the existence of the second German state until the 1980s. Only a few years before the fall of the Berlin wall, three writers started to make the GDR a subject of narration or poetry: Botho Strauß, Peter Schneider and Martin Walser. In different ways, yet unanimously, they complain about the division of Germany dealing with its impact on everyday life and private feelings.