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Christa Wolf


Born
in Landsberg, Germany
March 18, 1929

Died
December 01, 2011

Genre
Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Influences
Ingeborg Bachmann, Heinrich Böll, Anna Seghers, Wolfgang Hildesheimer ...more


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. Her best-known novels included “Der geteilte Himmel” (“Divided Heaven,” 1963), addressing the divisions of Germany, and “Kassandra” (“Cassandra,” 1983), which depicted the Trojan War.

She won awards in East Germany and West Germany for her work, including the Thomas Mann Prize in 2010. The jury praised her life’s work for “critically questioning the hopes and errors of her time, and portraying them with deep moral seriousness and narrative power.”

Christa Ihlenfeld was born March 18, 1929, in Landsberg an der Warthe, a part of Ger ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 20,430 ratings · 2,050 reviews · 171 distinct works • Similar authors
Cassandra
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3.87 avg rating — 6,867 ratings — published 1983 — 33 editions
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Medea
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Der geteilte Himmel
3.41 avg rating — 2,067 ratings — published 1963 — 33 editions
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The Quest for Christa T.
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3.72 avg rating — 1,264 ratings — published 1968 — 62 editions
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Kein Ort. Nirgends
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Was Bleibt
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Patterns of Childhood
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Accident: A Day's News
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“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra
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“Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.”
― Christa Wolf, Lesen und Schreiben: Neue Sammlung : Essays, Aufsätze, Reden (Sammlung Luchterhand ; 295)
tags: books, inspirational, reading
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“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
tags: individuality, power
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August 2018 New School Poll

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932
 
  87 votes, 30.9%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 509 pgs, 1932
 
  70 votes, 24.8%

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, 274 pgs, 1969
 
  35 votes, 12.4%

 
  33 votes, 11.7%

 
  29 votes, 10.3%

Deliverance by James Dickey, 288 pgs, 1970
 
  28 votes, 9.9%

282 total votes
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