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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

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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

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Average rating: 3.79 · 20,203 ratings · 2,026 reviews · 172 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cassandra by Christa Wolf, Jan van Heurck (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 6,805 ratings — published 1983 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medea by Christa Wolf, John Cullen (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 4,906 ratings — published 1996 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der geteilte Himmel 3.41 avg rating — 2,039 ratings — published 1963 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf, Christopher Middleton (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 1,259 ratings — published 1968 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	نحن نعرف ما سيأتي by Christa Wolf, كريستا ڤولف, صلاح هلال (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 828 ratings — published 1979 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Was Bleibt 3.52 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 1990 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patterns of Childhood 4.05 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 1976 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accident: A Day's News by Christa Wolf, Heike Schwarzbauer (Translator), Rick Takvorian (Translator) 3.45 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1987 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud by Christa Wolf, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translation) 3.81 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 2010 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August 3.99 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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