German Writers and the Politics of Culture

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; P.Cooke & A.Plowman PART I The East German Ministry of State Security and East German Society During the Honecker Era, 1971-1989; M.Dennis Uwe Johnson's Awkward Legacy: A Sympathetic Secret Policeman of the pre-Stasi Era; D.Tate The Stasi as the Force of Evil: Collin's Faustian Struggle with the Stasi Boss Urack in Stefan Heym's Collin; R.K.Zachau 'Die Tragikomödie Deutschland': Scenes from No Man's Land in Martin Walser's Dorle und Wolf; M.Butler Tallhover or the Eternal Spy: Hans Joachim Schädlich's Stasi-Novel Tallhover; K-H.Schoeps PART II 'Ich, Seherin, gehörte zum Palast': Christa Wolf's Literary Treatment of the Stasi in the Context of her Poetics of Self-Analysis; G.Paul 'Könnte man sagen, du seist ein Spiönchen?': Erich Loest's Fallhöhe; S.J.Evans Telling Tales: Moral Responsibility and the Stasi in Uwe Saeger's Die Nacht danach und der Morgen: O.Evans The Stasi as Panopticon: Wolfgang Hilbig's Ich; P.Cooke The Stasi, the Confession and Performing Difference: Brigitte Burmeister's Unter dem Namen Norma; A.Lewis 'Bekenntnissedes Stasi-Hochstaplers Klaus Uhltzscht': Thomas Brussig's Comical and Controversial Helden wie wir; K.Foell & J.Twark The Stasi as Literary Conceit: Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld; J.Preece Jürgen Fuchs: Documenting Life, Death and the Stasi; C.A.Costabile-Heming Escaping the Autobiographical Trap? Monika Maron, the Stasi and Pawels Briefe; A.Plowman Bibliography Index