Christa Wolf

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to actual events with a description of life in a conformist provincial town.
Wolf was a member of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of the GDR until the party disintegrated in 1989. She was, however, removed from the East Berlin committee of the GDR Writers' Union in 1976 after joining in protest against the withdrawal of citizenship from dissident singer Wolf Biermann. Wolf's controversial novel Was bleibt (What Remains and Other Stories, 1995), written in 1979 but not published until 1990, includes an account of being under surveillance by the Stasi, the GDR's security service. In Auf dem Weg nach Tabou (1994; Parting from Phantoms, 1997), a collection of essays, letters, and interviews, she reflected on German society after the reunification of East and West Germany and on her involvement with the Stasi. Her other works include Unter den Linden: Drei unwahrscheinliche Geschichten (Under the Linden Trees: Three Improbable Stories, 1974) and Kein Ort Nirgends (1979; No Place on ...

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