Archive of suppressed literature in the GDR

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The Archive of Suppressed Literature in the GDR is a project funded by the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship to research previously unknown literary texts that were created in the Soviet occupation zone or the GDR and were not or were not allowed to be published there. The Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research was involved in the project.

The archive was founded by Joachim Walther and Ines Geipel . From 2001 to 2005 they filled it with around 40,000 manuscript pages from around 100 authors. In contrast to bequests and bequests (which were also recorded) , a large part of them had been kept by the State Security as evidence against arrested authors, Walther came across this while working on behalf of the Gauck authorities .

Since then, Geipel and Walther have published the series “The Secret Library” in the Book Guild Edition with texts from the archive. The first two of the twenty originally planned titles were published in 2005, a volume with poetry and letters by Edeltraud Eckert (who died in 1955 after an accident at work in the Hoheneck prison) and a literary diary from the turning point 1989 f. by Radjo Monk . The series, however, was (to Joachim Walther's chagrin) to ten volumes with Michael Sallmanns 2009 published bathing day ended.

Geipel and Walther were awarded the Antiquaria Prize for the Promotion of Book Culture in 2011 for the establishment of the “Archive of Suppressed Literature” and the “The Secret Library” series .

literature

  • Matthias Buchholz: About the powerlessness of oppressed authors and the retrospective power of the archives. The archive of suppressed literature in the GDR . In: Rainer Hering , Dietmar Schenk (ed.): How powerful are archives? Perspektiven der Archivwissenschaft (=  publications of the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives . Volume 104 ). Hamburg University Press , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-943423-03-7 , pp. 165–187 ( full text [PDF; 833 kB ; accessed on March 27, 2019]).
  • Joachim Walther: Writing outside the canon or the defense of intellectual autonomy . In: Hans Jörg Schmidt, Petra Tallafuss (Hrsg.): Totalitarismus und Literatur. German literature in the 20th century - literary public in the field of tension of totalitarian opinion formation (=  writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Volume 33 ). Vandenhook & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36909-8 , pp. 161–172 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 9, 2019]).
  • Michael Bienert : The archive of suppressed literature. Dead mouth, but not forever . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 11, 2011 ( full text on text-der-stadt.de [accessed on March 9, 2019]).
  • Ines Geipel, Joachim Walther: Locked filing. Suppressed literary history in East Germany 1945–1989. Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-940357-50-2 ("Analysis volume" for the classification of the texts published in the "Secret Library", documentation of the "Archive of suppressed literature in the GDR" in the appendix, p. 309 ff. ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Walther: Writing outside the canon or the defense of spiritual autonomy . In: Hans Jörg Schmidt, Petra Tallafuss (Hrsg.): Totalitarismus und Literatur . Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36909-8 , here p. 161 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on March 18, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c Simone Neteler: The "Secret Library". In: deutschlandfunk.de . July 1, 2005, accessed March 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b c Rolf Schneider: What was not allowed to be printed in the GDR. In: welt.de . April 15, 2005, accessed March 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cornelia Geissler: Archive "Suppressed Literature in the GDR" presents his work. The world is a box. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 7, 2001, Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Funded Projects > [2001 Funded Projects]. (PDF; 215 kB) p. 8. In: bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  6. ^ A b c Jochen Staadt : The "Secret Library". Edition Büchergilde publishes twenty volumes of suppressed GDR literature . In: Journal of the SED State Research Association . tape 17 , no. 17 , 2005, ISSN  0948-9878 , p. 187–189 ( full text [PDF; 93 kB ; accessed on March 19, 2019]).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Bienert: The archive of suppressed literature . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 11, 2011 ( full text on text-der-stadt.de [accessed on March 18, 2019]).
  8. ↑ a b c Katja Stopka: Ines Geipel u. a .: Locked storage. In: H-Soz-Kult . May 31, 2016, accessed March 18, 2019 (review).
  9. ↑ a b “Secret library” of the edition Büchergilde is complete. In: buchmarkt.de . April 29, 2009. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Irma Weinreich: Forbidden GDR dictatorship. In: MZ-Web.de . July 2, 2009, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The previous winners. In: antiquaria-preis.de, accessed on March 19, 2019.
  12. ↑ Book Culture Prize for Ines Geipel and Joachim Walther. In: Zeit Online . December 13, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2019 (dpa).
  13. ↑ Geipel, Walther: Locked storage. Table of contents at the German National Library under DNB 1071428683/04 (PDF; 137 kB).