Of Writers and Workers by Waltz, William J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright About the author(s)/editor(s) About the book This eBook can be cited Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Theoretical Underpinnings: Between Myth and Reality Chapter 2 The Question of Soviet Influence

I. The Nachterstedt Letter II. The Wismut Letter III. The Stalinstadt Letter IV. The Bitterfeld Letter

Chapter 3 Cultural Heritage and Political Legitimacy

I. Traditions of the KPD and SPD II. Stalinization III. Revolution versus Gradualism: ‘Kunst ist Waffe’ versus ‘Persönlichkeitsbildung’ IV. Traditional ‘Folk’ Arts

Chapter 4 A Socialist Culture: According to Plan

I. The BSA: A Contested Field II. The Case of Hasso Grabner III. The BSA and Post-War Cultural Reception: The FDGB versus the Ministry of Culture

Chapter 5 Establishing State Structures and Consolidating Political Power in the 1950s

I. Realities of Rural Culture: The 1956 DKB Questionnaire II. Realities among Writers: The DVS in the 1950s III. The ‘Nachwuchs’ Problem and the Politburo’s Investigative Brigade

Chapter 6 Culture by Decree: The Twelve Point Plan

I. Impediments to the Plan II. The Numbers: Inexact and Incomplete III. Further Problems: Lack of Oversight, Undefined Goals and High Turnover Rates

Chapter 7 Klassenkampf and Volkskunst: Compromises and Concessions in the Early 1960s

I. The Schwerin Conference of Writing Workers and Farmers (1963) II. The Second Bitterfeld Conference (1964) III. The FDGB (Wolfgang Beyreuther) versus the Ministry of Culture (Hans Bentzien)

Chapter 8 Achieving Successes

I. Top-down Meets Bottom-up II. Tapping Existing Tendencies III. Of Amateur Writers and Writing Workers: The Semantics of Legitimacy and Identity IV. Professional Profiles of Circle Participants V. Circles in Factories: The Realities VI. Professional Writers and the BSA: The Realities

Chapter 9 The District of Halle: Cradle of the BSA

I. Werner Steinberg and the Dessau ‘Majakowski’ ZSA II. Edith Bergner and the Deubener Circle III. Dr. Friedrich Döppe and the Buna Circle IV. Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Bernhardt and the Leuna Circle

Chapter 10 On the Nature of Circle Work

I. Socialist Literary Salons? II. Education and Integration III. Constructing Socialism and the Dangers of Autonomy

Chapter 11 The BSA between Social Revolution and Popular Participation

I. Literary Standards II. Circle Anthologies and ‘Welfare Dictatorship’ III. The Literary Yield

Chapter 12 ‘Unorganized’ Amateur Writers outside the State Fold Future Research on the BSA Appendix A Appendix B

Berlin (24) Cottbus (11) Dresden (33) Erfurt (22) Gera (12) Halle (50) Karl-Marx-Stadt (21) Leipzig (27) Magdeburg (22) Neubrandenburg (10) Suhl (13) Frankfurt/Oder (2) Potsdam (30) Rostock (20) Schwerin (17)

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