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Christa Wolf


Born
in Landsberg, Germany
March 18, 1929

Died
December 01, 2011

Genre
Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Influences
Ingeborg Bachmann, Heinrich Böll, Anna Seghers, Wolfgang Hildesheimer ...more


Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the communist regime. Her best-known novels included “Der geteilte Himmel” (“Divided Heaven,” 1963), addressing the divisions of Germany, and “Kassandra” (“Cassandra,” 1983), which depicted the Trojan War.

She won awards in East Germany and West Germany for her work, including the Thomas Mann Prize in 2010. The jury praised her life’s work for “critically questioning the hopes and errors of her time, and portraying them with deep moral seriousness and narrative power.”

Christa Ihlenfeld was born March 18, 1929, in Landsberg an der Warthe, a part of Ger ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.79 · 20,530 ratings · 2,064 reviews · 171 distinct works • Similar authors
Cassandra
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3.86 avg rating — 6,899 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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Medea
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3.92 avg rating — 5,002 ratings — published 1996 — 49 editions
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Der geteilte Himmel
3.41 avg rating — 2,078 ratings — published 1963 — 77 editions
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The Quest for Christa T.
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3.72 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 1968 — 4 editions
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Kein Ort. Nirgends
3.61 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 1979 — 47 editions
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Was Bleibt
3.52 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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Patterns of Childhood
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Accident: A Day's News
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City of Angels or, The Over...
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3.98 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions
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“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra
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“Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.”
― Christa Wolf, Lesen und Schreiben: Neue Sammlung : Essays, Aufsätze, Reden (Sammlung Luchterhand ; 295)
tags: books, inspirational, reading
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“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
tags: individuality, power
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Which book should be our March group read? (Translated Fiction)

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (Japanese)
 
  7 votes 35.0%

Cassandra by Christa Wolf (German)
 
  4 votes 20.0%

 
  3 votes 15.0%

 
  2 votes 10.0%

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Spanish)
 
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