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The Stasi Poetry Circle published its first anthology in 1960. There were writing clubs in many places and East Germans were better read than West Germans. But in the end culture became a tool of repression in an undemocratic state resting on an inefficient economy.
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- Philip Oltermann
The regime hoped that poetry would sharpen the Stasi's 'party sword' by affirming the spies' belief in the words of Marx and Lenin, as well as strengthening the socialist faith of their comrades. But as the agents became steeped in poetry, revelling in its imaginative ambiguity, the result was the opposite. Rather than entrenching state ideology, they began to radically question it - and ...
As a journalist he has written for Granta, the LRB and the Guardian, for whom he is the Berlin Bureau Chief. Buy The Stasi Poetry Circle Export - Airside ed by Oltermann, Philip (ISBN: 9780571373338) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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- Philip Oltermann
Philip Oltermann on writing and researching his latest book, The Stasi Poetry Circle, the incredible hidden story of a unique experiment: weaponising poetry for politics. In 2015, I managed to get hold of a little red booklet full of poems published on the occasion of the socialist East German republic’s thirty-fifth birthday in 1984.
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Oltermann, Philip at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 057133119X - ISBN 13: 9780571331192 - Faber & Faber - 2022 - Hardcover
Philip Oltermann’s warm, vivid and touching The Stasi Poetry Circle tells the story of the Writing Chekists, a group of East German secret police who were also poets. What’s more, he has made ...
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