Morreu Christa Wolf, a mais importante escritora da ex-RDA /// Renowned East German author Christa Wolf dies

A escritora Christa Wolf, considerada a maior romancista leste-alemã, morreu hoje num hospital de Berlim aos 82 anos. Nascida na Prússia Oriental, Wolf contribuiu para a afirmação de uma literatura própria na ex-República Democrática Alemã, com os seus primeiros romances Notícias de Moscovo, o seu primeiro livro publicado em 1961, e O céu partilhado (1963), onde o sonho de uma nova sociedade se confunde com a emergência do ser individual.

As suas obras emocionaram e arrebataram multidões espicaçando à reflexão.

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Christa Wolf, one of the best known authors from the former East Germany, has died in Berlin at the age of 82 after a long illness. In works including Cassandra and Medea, she explored power shifts and war, as experienced by women. Wolf courted controversy throughout her career and had links to the East German Stasi police in the 1960s. In 2010, she won for writing about "the struggles, hopes and mistakes of her age". At the end of World War II, she decided to stay in East Germany and joined the communist Party. She won numerous awards throughout her life including the Georg Buchner prize, in 1980, and was a double winner of East Germany's national literary prize . Her most recent work, Leibhaftig (2002), detailed the struggle of a woman in a 1980s East German hospital, awaiting medication from the West.

Links:

Christa Wolf: Biography at FemBio - Notable Women International

Corinna Harfouch liest "Kassandra" von Christa Wolf (youtube)