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Christa Wolf<\/strong> was born in Landsberg on the Warthe in 1929 and fled with her family to Mecklenburg in 1945. In 1949, the year of her A-levels, she joined the SED. Until 1953 she studied German in Jena and Leipzig. After this she worked in East Berlin at the German Writers Association as academic assistant, as editor of the magazine \u00bbNeue deutsche Literatur\u00ab and the \u00bbAufbau-Verlag\u00ab, amongst others. Since 1962, Christa Wolf is freelance writer.<\/p>\n

Literature and politics are inseparable in Christa Wolf\u2019s life: until the early fifties she felt \u00bbat one\u00ab with the socialist system, but already in her second narrative, the love story \u00bbDer geteilte Himmel\u00ab (1963) she is concerned with the problems of the GDR on the eve of the building of the Wall. The book received much attention in the East and the West.<\/p>\n

Her \u00bbsubjective authenticity\u00ab writing style, that is having own personal experiences in which social connections are reflected as a central theme, quickly brought Wolf into conflict with the official given doctrine of realism. Nevertheless, she remained, despite all her critique on the prevailing circumstances, tied to the principle of the socialist state. Her story \u00bbNachdenken \u00fcber Christa T.\u00ab (1968) is a true to life depiction of life in the GDR and questions the relationship of the individual and the state. The protagonist, \u00bbChrista T.\u00ab, is a counter figure to the socialist hero of the given order. Her personal ideas of happiness and the demands which the community puts on her in the name of the creating of socialism, don\u2019t want to come together.<\/p>\n

In 1976 the novel based on recollections, \u00bbKindheitsmuster\u00ab, came out in which the author follows her own history and attempts to once again understand the path taken by her generation.<\/p>\n

In the same year, Christa Wolf was one of the people who openly protested against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann. \u00bbKein Ort. Nirgends\u00ab (1977) is an expression which speaks for itself of the crisis of self-understanding which the author was thrown by these events. Also in 1983 the story \u00bbKassandra\u00ab came out which deals with the powerlessness of (matriarchal) knowledge against the interests of power.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, she remained loyal to her concept of socialism with a human face. Even in the last days of the GDR, at the demonstration on the Alexanderplatz on fourth November 1989, she announced her support of reforming of this state.<\/p>\n

The publication of the story \u00bbWas bleibt\u00ab (1990) which, with autobiographical traits, reflects her surveillance by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR, led to a discussion, in the early nineties, on the responsibility and share of guilt of intellectuals in socialism. Her answer to the critique on her role in the SED state was \u00bbMedea\u00ab (1996), a novel with its roots in mythology on the social isolation of outsider figures. In 2002\u00a0the highly praised story \u00bbLeibhaftig\u00ab of the \u00bbB\u00fcchner Prize\u00ab carrier of 1980 came out, followed by the\u00a0extraordinary diary\u00a0\u00bbEin Tag im Jahr\u00ab (2003) and the correspondence \u00bbJa, unsere Kreise ber\u00fchren sich\u00ab (2004). In 2006 her collection of essays \u00bbDer Worte Adernetz\u00ab was published.<\/p>\n

The oft-awarded writer lives in Berlin and Woserin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.<\/p>\n

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