Monsieur, wir finden uns wieder. Briefe 1968-1984

by Christa Wolf, Franz Fühmann, Angela Drescher (Herausgeber)

In den Briefen, die Christa Wolf und Franz Fühmann zwischen 1968 und 1984 wechselten, geht es vor allem um Politik und die schriftstellerische Arbeit. Der Briefwechsel dokumentiert die Schwierigkeiten, mit denen kritische Intellektuelle in der DDR zu kämpfen hatten.

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

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 Germany that is now in Poland. She moved to East Germany in 1945 and joined the Socialist Unity Party in 1949. She studied German literature in Jena and Leipzig and became a publisher and editor.

In 1951, she married Gerhard Wolf, an essayist. They had two children. Christa Wolf died in December 2011.

(Bloomberg News)