Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Abbreviations, Definitions and Translations ix
5. Introduction. The Surreal without Surrealism 1
6. Chapter 1. The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Post-war Germany 17
7. Chapter 2. Return of the Avant-Garde? Brecht & Co. in the GDR 39
8. Chapter 3. ‘1968’ in the GDR: Franz Kafka and the Prague Spring 53
9. Chapter 4. Flirting with the Enemy: The Absurd and Grotesque in 1960s Poetry 69
10. Chapter 5. The GDR’s Surrealist Nerve Centre: Adolf Endler’s Strange Nebbich World 90
11. Chapter 6. Wolfgang Hilbig’s Landscapes ‘Where the Minotaurs Graze 116
12. Chapter 7. ‘Flip-out-Elke’: Elke Erb’s Surrealistic Poetry 131
13. Chapter 8. Gabriele Stötzer under Surveillance: Feminism and the Avant-Garde 148
14. Chapter 9. East German Advocates of Surrealism 168
15. Conclusion. ‘Max Ernst Was Here!’ 181
16. Bibliography 193
17. Index 209