The relationship between a prisoner of war at the end of World War II on the one hand and his commitment as a Writers’ Union politicians for the GDR on the other hand, which made him at every meeting with people like Günter Grass for spies of the East you can not scarce summarized as Hermann Kant the “other, liberating Ostgefangenschaft one hand, and the freedom of self-consciousness of the West” done ten years ago in the story “Heuser’s signature” with the intricate true word of the. The painful context, the referred that his life was subject; Kant’s best novel “The stay” (1977) is about.
After the GDR collapsed, it initially looked after as if only be worn by her literary reputation, which had been articulated in the lifetime of this state as a fundamental Nichteinverstandensein with his policies. On most improbable were (and are) new editions of books that had reached very high requirements in SED-controlled territory before 1989, because they were on the one hand easily readable enjoyable, and on the other hand strengthened in their socialist view of the world – on successful new issue of this sort books say we: the sharp dissident enemy agent thrillers “the juggler” (1978) by Harry Thürk, you should not bet
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however, if under the State loyalists over Entertaining and Socialist. addition art had to offer, was and is better because -. Peter hacks and Hermann Kant will continue (and even of new, albeit small audience strains) read
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hacks has” the Germans “(as we liked to call) verses, dramas and essays in their own language left at a time, as verses, dramas and essays in this country usually be written with low design standards; may over Kant and the prose to say the same thing – a sentence like “Leading and traveling people drove in the former armory on”, “signature Heusers” meant in a description of a cultural events, sounds on the one hand as a good joke about the alliteration habits German-burly stylist since Richard Wagner and divides the other hand, apart from the charming tonal Knorrigkeit, even something Observed with, stoic laconically.
He has served the GDR
Derlei intonations lay Hermann Kant because in wit and self-discipline, two human assets, which were also made available to him, could be another very close. When he saw himself as an artist only in the sense of an increase of “artisans”, was so ill about agonizingly by the hand, he wrote in the same perk-tight style of “fire in my paw.” And that as a functionary in the Writers’ Union of the GDR started again with association policy after he was nearly escaped already this activity, in the shadow of his literature was to last not only for Westerners, he described without self protection as its “creep back into the Verbandssielen” which have imposed an obligation, “much like neither from friend nor foe” to leave – with erwartbarsten consequences in the nineties: “that enemy is today its recalls and friend rarely know what is being discussed, should be include the natural phenomena of life. “
Kant has served the GDR. It has for its end may not be less disappointed him when she has those obsessed with their reality you than their residents did not want to serve, because they dreamed of a different socialist (or equal to a bourgeois-democratic) republic. People get rarely what they want – that’s the basic melody of sober DDR novels of non dissidents between Kant’s “Aula” (1965) and Dieter Noll’s “Kippenberg ‘(1978). The moral of these books are: It is not on the wishes
This Sunday is Hermann Kant died at the age of ninety in Neustrelitz
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