Quote by: Christa Wolf

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.


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Author Bio


  • NameChrista Wolf
  • DescriptionGerman literary critic, novelist, and essayist
  • BornMarch 18, 1929
  • DiedDecember 1, 2011
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter; Politician; Unofficial Collaborator; Novelist; Essayist
  • WorksDivided Heaven; ; Patterns Of Childhood; Cassandra
  • AwardsAustrian State Prize For European Literature; Georg Büchner Prize; Geschwister-Scholl-Preis; National Prize Of East Germany; Schiller Memorial Prize