Christa wolf
Christa wolfWolf, Christa (1929- ), German novelist and essayist, known for her novels about Germany during World War II (1939-1945). Born Christa Ihlenfeld in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorz�w Wielkopolski, Poland), she studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena from 1949 to 1953. In 1951 she married writer Gerhard Wolf. After graduating she worked as a publisher's reader and an editor until 1962, when she became a full-time writer. Her first successful novel, Der geteilte Himmel (1963; translated as The Divided Heaven, 1965), describes a relationship between a man who leaves the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, and a woman who stays. Two of her later novels, Nachdenken �ber Christa T (1969; The Quest for Christa T, 1971) and Kindheitsmuster (1976; A Model Childhood, 1982), examine the final years of World War II and the early development of the GDR. The first of these novels describes the life of a woman and her early death from leukemia, which is described as a psychosomatic response to circumstances in her life that are subtly tied to the social constraints upon individuals in the newly formed GDR. The second novel is strongly autobiographical and combines references to actual events with a description...
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