A revised version of Chapter 7 has been published under the title ‘Flirting with Surrealism’ in Volume 18 of the German Studies Yearbook, Gegenwartsliteratur, in 2019. Versions of Chapters 3 and 5 have been published as articles in the Times Literary Supplement, in 2013 (‘Laughed Back to Life’) and 2018 (‘All Power to the Imagination’) respectively.
Missing text is designated with ellipses. In most cases, literary passages are not quoted in their entirety. I also thank the people in the Akademie der Künste and the Stasi-Archiv (BStU) in Berlin for their help. In particular, I wish to express my gratitude to staf working in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (DLA) at Marbach for making my research visits a truly satisfactory experience. Tis, and my research fellowships with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, enabled me to focus fully on preparing and fnalizing this book. In 2015 I was awarded a University Research Leave Fellowship by Cardif University. Paul Clements is to be thanked for his translation skills and sharp eye for detail, especially when it came to correcting my sometimes-broken English. Schröder, Erdmut Wizisla, Helmut Lethen and Brigitte SchreierEndler. Special thanks go to Ingo Cornils, Ewout van der Knaap, Kerstin Hensel, Sabine Berendse, Claudia Albert, Ingrid Sonntag, Klaus Michael, Rolf X. East German Advocates of SurrealismĪt the completion of this long-term project it is a pleasure for me to acknowledge the help and support of the people who made the writing of this book possible. Gabriele Stötzer under Surveillance: Feminism and the Avant-GardeĬhapter 9. ‘Flip-out-Elke’: Elke Erb’s Surrealistic PoetryĬhapter 8. Wolfgang Hilbig’s Landscapes ‘Where the Minotaurs Graze’ 116 Chapter 7. Te GDR’s Surrealist Nerve Centre: Adolf Endler’s Strange Nebbich World 90 Chapter 6. Flirting with the Enemy: Te Absurd and Grotesque in 1960s PoetryĬhapter 5. ‘1968’ in the GDR: Franz Kafka and the Prague SpringĬhapter 4. Te Fate of the Avant-Garde in Post-war GermanyĬhapter 2. In fond memory of the German Surrealist, Adolf Endler (1930–2009)Īcknowledgements viii Abbreviations, Defnitions and Translations ix Introduction. | Literature and society-Germany (East) Classifcation: LCC PT3710.S (print) | LCC PT3710.S87 (ebook) | DDC 830.9/116309431-dc23 LC record available at LC ebook record available at British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-80073-068-7 hardback ISBN 978-1-80073-069-4 ebook | Surrealism (Literature)-Germany (East) | Surrealism in mass media. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Title: Echoes of surrealism : challenging socialist realism in East German literature, 1945-1990 / Gerrit-Jan Berendse.
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