Honecker's Germany (Rle: German Politics): Moscow's German Ally by David Childs

Author:David Childs [Childs, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317540342
Goodreads: 28023040
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Notes: Chapter 7

1 'Hitherto philosophers have merely interpreted the world in a male way. But it is our task to interpret it also in a female way, in order to change it in a human way.' The words parody the eleventh of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach. All quotations in text are from the East German edition of Amanda (see note 2 below).

2 Irmtraud Morgner, Amanda. Ein Hexenroman (East Berlin: Aufbau, 1983; Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1983).

3 Christa Wolf, Kassandra. Erzählung (Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1983); Vorausset-zungen einer Erzählung: Kassandra. Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen (Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1983); Kassandra. Vier Vorlesungen. Eine Erzahlung (East Berlin: Aufbau, 1983) (not distributed until 1984). All quotations in text from Kassandra and the Frankfurt lectures are from the East German edition.

4 Sigrid Loffler, 'Eine anmutige Spinnerin. Die Frauen miissen die Welt instandbesetzen', Die Zeit, 10 June 1983, p. 59.

5 So Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 17th edn, Vol. 1 (Wiesbaden, 1966), article on 'Achill'. On the other hand, Robert Graves, one of Christa Wolfs sources, asserts that in view of the way in which it portrays Greek barbarities, the Iliad can be regarded only as satire written by one who sympathized with the Trojans (Graves, The Greek Myths (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1955), Vol. 2, pp. 311-12).

6 cf. the story of Christine Torstensen, which so disturbed Christa Wolf and her alter ego Nelly Jordan (Wolf, Lesen und Schreiben. Neue Sammlung [Darmstadt, 1980], p. 21; Kindheitsmuster. Roman [Darmstadt, 1977], p. 262). Even the words 'not that' with which they react to the story recur in Kassandra with regard to the fate of the other female victim Briseis (p. 283).

7 Christa Wolf, 'Documentation: Christa Wolf, German Quarterly, Vol. 57 (1984), p. 100.

8 Graves, The Greek Myths, Vol. 1, p. 148.

9 Peter Hacks, Pandora. Drama nach J. W. von Goethe. Mit einem Essay (East Berlin, 1981); See also J. P. Stern, 'On Goethe's Pandora', London German Studies, vol. 2 (1983), pp. 31-49.

10 This is a private joke on Irmtraud Morgner's part. The West German reviewer of Trobadora Beatriz in the Frankfurter Rundschau, 16 August 1975, described it as 'a kind of Bible of women's emancipation today'.

11 Rolf Schneider, Die Reise nach Jaroslaw (Rostock, 1974), p. 26.

12 Paul Michael Lützeler, 'Goethes Faust und der Sozialismus. Zur Rezeption des klassischen Erbes in der DDR', Basis, vol. 5 (1975), pp. 31-54.

13 Irmtraud Morgner, Address to the Eighth Writers' Congress of the GDR, in Die Verantwortung des Schriftstellers in den Kämpfen unserer Zeit. Materialien zum VIII. Schriftstellerkongress der DDR (Munich, 1978), pp. 48-53.

14 See Ronald D. Gray, Goethe the Alchemist. A Study of Alchemical Symbolism in Goethe's Literary and Scientific Works (Cambridge, 1952), pp. 44-5.

15 Christa Wolf, Lesen und Schreiben. Neue Sammlung (Darmstadt, 1980), p. 94.

16 See Elsbeth Pulver, 'Der Zorn gegen Achill. Zu Christa Wolfs "Kassandra" und den Frankfurter Vorlesungen "Voraussetzungen einer Erzahlung" ', Schweizer Monatshefte, vol. 63 (1983), pp. 750-5, and Reinhard Baumgart, 'Ein Marmorengel ohne Schmerz', Der Spiegel, 4 April 1983, pp. 208-10.

17 Irmtraud Morgner, Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura (1974) (Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1977), p. 170.

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