Wolf, Christa

Unter den Linden : drei unwahrscheinliche Geschichten by Christa Wolf( Book )
120 editions published between 1973 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 798 libraries worldwide
Tři povídky významné východoněmecké autorky mají společného jmenovatele: ironii, vtip a satiru. První (Pod lipami) líčí procházku hrdinky třídou Pod lipami a její snové dobrodružství. Druhá (Nové životní názory jednoho

Sommerstück by Christa Wolf( Book )
73 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 723 libraries worldwide
Einen Sommer auf dem mecklenburgischen Land erlebt die Schriftstellerin Ellen, zusammen mit Familie und Freunden. Der gesellschaftliche Stillstand ist Ende der siebziger Jahre deutlich zu spüren, aber für die Dauer einiger weniger Monate, die in der Erinnerung einmalig und endlos scheinen, entsteht hier eine lebendige Gemeinschaft. "Sommerstück" ist die Geschichte eines Jahrhundertsommers und zugleich der Abgesang auf eine politische Utopie

Was bleibt : Erzählung by Christa Wolf( Book )
62 editions published between 1990 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 716 libraries worldwide
Der morgendliche Blick durch die Vorhänge zeigt es: Wieder steht das Auto mit den unauffälligen Männern von der Stasi vor der Tür. Die Ich-Erzählerin, eine Schriftstellerin aus Ostberlin, weiß sich unter ständiger Beobachtung, in ihrer Wohnung, beim Telefonieren, auf dem Weg zu einer Lesung. Doch am Ende dieses Tages werden sich auch Lücken im System gezeigt haben, die Anlaß zu Hoffnung geben

Parting from phantoms : selected writings, 1990-1994 by Christa Wolf( Book )
34 editions published between 1994 and 1999 in 5 languages and held by 713 libraries worldwide
The most prominent writer of the German Democratic Republic and its most famous cultural export, Wolf was called East Germany's "Mother Confessor" and treated by the West German press as emblematic of GDR intellectuals. After reunification, Wolf published a novella titled What Remains, which was bitterly attacked by the press as a belated attempt to establish herself as a victim of the Stasi (the GDR's secret police). The criticism discredited Wolf as a cultural hero in the eyes of many Germans and plunged her into a deep personal crisis. Parting from Phantoms shows Wolf coming to terms with her ambiguous past and an unforgiving present

Gesammelte Erzählungen by Christa Wolf( Book )
67 editions published between 1974 and 2000 in German and Undetermined and held by 708 libraries worldwide
Korte verhalen, die variëren van puur realisme tot diep uitgewerkte droombeelden

Lesen und Schreiben; Aufsätze und Prosastücke by Christa Wolf( Book )
41 editions published between 1971 and 1978 in 3 languages and held by 680 libraries worldwide

August by Christa Wolf( Book )
26 editions published between 2012 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 449 libraries worldwide
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life, as she said, "You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye." August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real life event that was the inspiration for the closing scenes of her 1976 novel Patterns of Childhood

A model childhood by Christa Wolf( Book )
22 editions published between 1980 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 371 libraries worldwide
The story of a young girl growing up in a Nazi family in Germany - How the changes brought in Hitler were accepted - Not until the family were fleeing before the Russian army did she have her childhood values shattered

Hierzulande, andernorts : Erzählungen und andere Texte 1994-1998 by Christa Wolf( Book )
16 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in German and Undetermined and held by 367 libraries worldwide
Lizenz des Luchterhand-Verl., München

City of angels or, : The overcoat of Dr. Freud by Christa Wolf( Book )
33 editions published between 2010 and 2014 in 12 languages and held by 339 libraries worldwide
The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar'and disturbing'story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel'and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters