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Stefan Heym's uncompromising stance made him unpopular with a succession of political regimes. The Nazis, the CIA and the East German secret police all held files on him. He was Hitler's youngest literary exile; McCarthyism was to drive him from the USA; and even in what appeared his natural home - the first socialist state on German soil - he was to become the country's leading dissident. By continuing to compose in both English and German, however, he maintained an international reputation, and has been translated into over twenty languages. This study traces Heym's career principally by reference to his novels, journalism, and political essays, from his earliest works. All his novels are analysed, the major ones in depth, and English translations of all German quotations are provided. Peter Hutchinson focuses particularly on Heym's battles against Stalinism and censorship, and the way in which his courageous defiance of a repressive regime inspired others and paved the way for the 'new' eastern literature of the eighties.

Authors, German --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Heym, Stefan, --- Flieg, Helmut, --- Geĭm, Stefan, --- Haym, St̋ifan, --- היים, סטיפן

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This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on writers positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent and who had quite different relationships to political power: Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and Elfriede Brüning.Drawing on and comparing unpublished archive material, autobiography and the literary output of the three named writers, this study brings to the fore the ambiguities and contradictions of intellectual life in the GDR. Tensions between the different sources point towards tensions inherent in the subject positions of writers, publishers, reviewers and cultural authorities. This granular approach to the study of GDR cultural history challenges top-down interpretations and builds into a theoretical understanding of GDR cultural life based on the concepts of ambiguity and ambivalence and the increasing fragmentation of ideology. Comparison with other spheres of GDR life points towards the significance of these concepts for the study of East German society as a whole.

German literature --- Literature and society --- Censorship in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Kant, Hermann --- Heym, Stefan, --- Brüning, Elfriede --- Flieg, Helmut, --- Geĭm, Stefan, --- Haym, St̋ifan, --- היים, סטיפן --- Kant, German --- Criticism and interpretation. --- GDR Literature, GDR Literary History.

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Unter Einbeziehung von Heine, Rosenkranz und Vischer stellt die Arbeit Robert Prutz (1816-1872), Hermann Hettner (1821-1882) und Rudolf Haym (1821-1901) als eine maßgeblich vom Hegelianismus geprägte Generation von Literaturhistorikern vor. Sie thematisiert die Hegel-Rezeption und die programmatischen Beiträge dieser Autoren zur Begründung einer anspruchsvollen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung und diskutiert die Leistungsfähigkeit ihrer Historiographie anhand der von ihnen vorgelegten Untersuchungen über die Romantik. Abschließend bilanziert sie den Professionalisierungsgrad ihrer Wissenschaftspraxis und situiert sie in der Geschichte der Germanistik.

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