Anneliese Löffler

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Anneliese Löffler , formerly Grosse (born May 7, 1928 in Folbern ) is a German Germanist and literary scholar .

Life

Anneliese Löffler began her career in 1946 with the FDJ district leadership in the Saxon district town of Großenhain . After attending a state party school of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), she initially worked on the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in Berlin in 1953 . Löffler then gained importance in the Office for Literature and Publishing , the central censorship office in the GDR and in its successor institution, the main administration for publishing and bookshops , as a senior consultant and sector manager. Encouraged by her superior Erich Wendt , she began a distance learning course in German and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . As an aspirant , she attended the Potsdam University of Education and the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin. There she completed her doctorate on October 4, 1967 on the subject of "On the Structure of the Image of Man in Contemporary West German Epic Literature (1963-1965)". The first reviewer of the dissertation was the department head for culture in the Central Committee of the SED, Arno Hochmuth . In the same year Löffler was appointed editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Weimarer Posts .

In 1971 Löffler became a member of the Berlin Writers' Association , in which she was temporarily a member of the board of the Berlin District Association. At the instigation of the Central Committee for Science, she received a professorship for GDR literature at the Humboldt University in 1972 because "only she is able to ideologically create order in this area of ​​the Humboldt University". In 1973 she was a Full Professor Chairholder . In 1979 she became Deputy Director for Research. In the same year she received the Order of the Labor Banner (II. Stage).

From 1980 Löffler was only active as an honorary professor and also worked as a freelance reviewer. Until at least 2011 she was active as a critic in the Berlin amateur and semi-professional literary scene. Between 2017 and 2020, more than 20 self -published books were published with Anneliese Löffler as co-author.

Role as literary scholar

Von Löffler mainly published workshop reports and interviews with GDR authors, which she published in literary magazines such as neue deutsche literatur and Weimar articles, as well as in book form ( information. Workshop talks with GDR authors . 1974). Thanks to her numerous reviews, which appeared in New Germany (ND), among others , “the particularly party conformist” Löffler gained decisive influence on the reception and dissemination of contemporary GDR literature. According to the literary scholar Wolfgang Emmerich , she repeatedly took on “the pioneering role for bans”, publicly but also covertly. In August 1978, she recommended that Klaus Poche's novel “Atemnot” should be refused permission to print: “A publication is of no use, only of harm. The book is directed through and through against the reality of socialism, against the exercise of power in our state ”. And in 1985 she condemned the “Hinze Kunze novel” by Volker Braun , who had moved Diderot's “ Jacques the Fatalist ” to the GDR, as “absurd” and “anarchist”. Löffler also used it to practice self-defense, as she found herself in the novel as Professor Messerle .

Unofficial collaboration with the MfS

From 1971 on, Anneliese Löffler was one of the “top sources” of the MfS as an unofficial employee for the political-operational penetration and safeguarding of the area of ​​responsibility (IMS) Dölbl . During this time she provided reports on writers, including Volker Braun , Adolf Endler , Elke Erb , Stephan Hermlin , Bernd Jentzsch , Heinz Kahlau , Hermann Kant , Rainer Kirsch , Karl Mickel , Ulrich Plenzdorf , Helmut Sakowski , Klaus Schlesinger , Rolf Schneider , Helga Schubert and Gisela Steineckert . For several years she observed Franz Fühmann in particular . Löffler also denounced her own students and was also active as an eavesdropper on the street at the 1973 World Festival of Youth and Students . During these activities she did not limit herself to carrying out Stasi assignments, but developed her own operational concepts. For example, she offered to invite the writer Martin Stade to her home to take a look, and she would “not save on alcohol” when it came to catering.

In addition, Löffler, who is considered to be “doctrinal”, reported regularly on colleagues from publishing, editing and specialist fields such as the reformist literary scholars Frank Hörnigk , Ursula Heukenkamp , Eva Kaufmann , Hans Kaufmann and Dieter Schlenstedt , using the reports several times to harm professional competitors. Your information reached the SED party leadership in condensed form and thus influenced their line of cultural policy. She has also repeatedly worked for the MfS cultural surveillance department HA XX / 7 and the main investigation department HA IX as an "expert", doing extensive analyzes of anti-state tendencies in books by Jürgen Fuchs , Hans Joachim Schädlich , Friedrich Dieckmann , Christian Kunert , Gerulf Pannach et al. Even Günter Grass was negatively assessed by them. On the other hand, she praised Harry Thürk's colossal novel "The Juggler" , in which the Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was portrayed negatively in a highly distorted manner.

In his fundamental study of writers and state security , Joachim Walther judges Löffler: She used the MfS and the party primarily to advance her own career at the expense of others. "While your personal information is clearly of a denunciation character, your factual reports give an insight into the unculture of intrigue among comrades."

Publications (selection)

  • (with Eberhard Röhner ) The socialist image of man as the central aesthetic category of our literature. In: Einheit , 2/1969, p. 175.
  • (with Brigitte Thurm ) Social irrelevance and subjectivity that can be manipulated. In: Weimar Contributions , 2/1970, pp. 151–181.
  • (with others) Socialist Realism: Positions, Problems, Perspectives. An introduction . Edited by Erwin Pracht and Werner Neubert . Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1970.
  • (as ed.) Information: workshop discussions with GDR authors . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1974 (2nd edition 1976).
  • (as ed.) Checked in its place. Lived and narrated things by GDR authors . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1979.

literature

  • Petra Boden / Dorothea Böck (ed.): Modernization without modernity. The Central Institute for the History of Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1969–1991) . Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004
  • Rolf Köpcke: The processing of the reunification of Germany in the turnaround and Berlin novel “Ein Weites Feld” (1995) by Günter Grass - the attempts by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) to influence him. Berlin: Phil. Diss. FU Berlin, 2003
  • Tanja Walenski: Counter-Discourses from Big Brother. Relations between the 'GDR literary system' and the Soviet Union 1961–1989 . Giessen: Phil. Diss. Justus Liebig University, 2006
  • Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin: Ullstein, 1999 ISBN 3-548-26553-7
  • Joachim Walther: "In the stinking underground" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1996 ( online - 23 September 1996 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Big name at birth according to Gunvor Hammarskjöld's dissertations: To be blameless guilty. On guilt and freedom in Hermann Kant's novel “The Residence”. Stockholm 1990 (Lunder Germanistische Forschungen; 58), p. 149, note 65 and P. 168, as well as Rolf Köpcke: The processing of the reunification of Germany in the turnaround and Berlin novel "Ein Weites Feld" (1995) by Günter Grass - the attempts of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) to influence him. Berlin 2003, p. 167; s. a. Dorit Müller: The narrative researcher Inge Diersen (1927-1993). A contribution to the history of the conflict in GDR German studies. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik 20: 2 (2010), pp. 369–387 (“Anneliese Große (m. Löffler)”).
  2. ↑ a b c d Anneliese Löffler on her 60th birthday. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik 9 (1988), p. 247.
  3. ↑ a b Anneliese Große: On the structure of the image of man in the West German epic literature of the present (1963-1965). Phil. Diss. Berlin 1967, title page; The copy kept in the Federal Archives does not include the mandatory curriculum vitae.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, p. 381f. & 695-701.
  5. ↑ Timothy R. Jackson: Type and Poetics. Heidelberg 2003, p. 35 note 70.
  6. ↑ cit. n. Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, p. 697.
  7. ↑ Neue Deutsche Literatur 27: 7 (1979), p. 174.
  8. ↑ s. Anneliese Löffler: Foreword , in: Ostkreuz im Nebel. An anthology. Berlin 2007; Heidrun Sommer: The niece on the way into town and other stories. Berlin 2010; From the poets' kitchen. In: Lichtenberger Rathausnachrichten v. January 8, 2011, p. 5; The writers. In: Berliner Woche (Lichtenberg edition) v. March 16, 2011, p. 2.
  9. ↑ Search for "Anneliese Löffler" in the DNB catalog on February 13, 2020
  10. ^ "Literary critic of the New Germany", says Christian Eichner / York-Gothart Mix: A misjudgment as a yardstick? On Maxim Biller's Esra, Klaus Mann's Mephisto and the problem of artistic freedom in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: International Archive for Social History of German Literature 32: 2 (2007), pp. 183–227.
  11. ↑ German Bundestag (Ed.): Materials of the Enquete Commission "Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity" (13th electoral term of the German Bundestag). Volume 7. Baden-Baden / Frankfurt / M. 1999, p. 1572.
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Emmerich: Brief literary history of the GDR. Berlin 2000, p. 52.
  13. ↑ Quotation from Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, p. 382.
  14. ↑ Anneliese Löffler: When content and form coagulate into a farce . Neues Deutschland , October 9, 1985, p. 4; Reprinted in: Eberhard Günther / Werner Liersch / Klaus Walther (eds.): Critique 85. Reviews of GDR literature . Halle / Leipzig 1986, p. 36.
  15. ↑ s. a. York-Gothart Mix: A 'Oberkunze must not appear'. Materials on the publication history and censorship of the Hinze Kunze novel by Volker Braun. Wiesbaden 1993, pp. 167 & 218; Wolfgang Emmerich: Small literary history of the GDR. Berlin 2000, p. 52.
  16. ↑ s. a. Karl Corino (ed.): The Kant. IM "Martin" files, the Stasi and the literature in East and West . Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, pp. 416-418.
  17. ^ Hans-Jürgen Schmitt: The operational process «Filou». The writer Franz Fühmann in the network of the GDR State Security. Deutschlandfunk, October 5, 1993; Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, pp. 344, 349f., 698, 701.
  18. ↑ a b quote Löffler from Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, p. 698.
  19. ↑ For Löffler / Fuchs s. a. German Bundestag (Ed.): Materials of the Enquete Commission “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity” (13th electoral term of the German Bundestag). Volume 7. Baden-Baden / Frankfurt / M. 1999, p. 1033.
  20. ↑ Rolf Köpcke: The processing of the reunification of Germany in the turnaround and Berlin novel "Ein Weites Feld" (1995) by Günter Grass - the attempts of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) to influence him. Berlin 2003, passim; Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, p. 381.
  21. ↑ Tanja Walenski: Counter Discourses from Big Brother. Relations between the 'GDR literary system' and the Soviet Union 1961–1989 . Giessen 2006, pp. 231-236.
  22. ↑ Joachim Walther: Security area literature. Writer and State Security in the German Democratic Republic . Berlin 1999, p. 696.
personal data
SURNAME Löffler, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Big one, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Folder