학술논문

Stasier than thou.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Economist; 10/5/1991, Vol. 321, p102-103, 2p
Subject
Biermann, Wolf
Anderson, Sacha
German authors
Secret police
Artistic dissenters
Police
East German literature
Allied occupation, Berlin, Germany, 1945-1990
Spies
Espionage
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
Germany (East)
Germany
Language
ISSN
00130613
Abstract
Discusses the possibility that some of East Germany's dissident writers were agents of the infamous Stasi secret police. How the question has become an obsession in the German literary world; Public denunciation by dissident and songwriter Wolf Biermann of his fellow former East German Sacha Anderson, a poet; Belief that the Stasi infiltrated and subverted the dissident cultural scene; Re-evaluation of German literature and writers since the fall of the Berlin Wall.