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Das ostdeutsche P.E.N.-Zentrum 1951 bis 1998

Ein Werkzeug der Diktatur?
  • Dorothée Bores
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2010
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After the fall of the wall, the East German center of PEN, the worldwide association of writers, came under criticism. Its members were accused of collaboration with the dictatorial state power and of having failed as intellectuals. The book starts with considerations about the discourse on intellectuals and writers. On the basis of comprehensive source studies, it gives an overview of fifty years of East German PEN history, from the beginning of the German PEN and from its division as a result of the Cold War to the reunification of the two German centers.

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Dorothée Bores, Trier.

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"Es ist ein Standard- und Nachschlagewerk, das immer wieder zur Hand genommen werden will, anspruchsvoll und informativ zugleich."
Gerd Dietrich in: H-Soz-u-Kult 7/2011

"Das Buch [...] ist ein gut lesbares Grundlagenwerk. Es illustriert, auf welche Weise die Diktatur den P.E.N. instrumentalisiert hat und wie einzelne ostdeutsche Mitglieder ihn dennoch seiner Charta entsprechend nutzten. Die Studie ist ein materialgesättigter Beitrag zur Geschichte der Intellektuellen im 20. Jh."
Holger Helbig in: Germanistik Redaktion 2011, Band 52, Heft 1-2

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eBook published on:
September 29, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9783110233865
Hardcover published on:
September 17, 2010
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110233858
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1 vol.
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16
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1087
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