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It’s Quite Comfortable Being Caught in the Middle

Letters 1952-2011
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It’s Quite Comfortable Being Caught in the Middle / Man steht sehr bequem zwischen allen Fronten
Letters 1952-2011

»Mail, mail, mail«. This cri de cœur, jotted down in the calendar underneath the date of Sunday, 4th of March 1990, is not unfounded: Christa Wolf was a tremendously productive correspondent. Her letters to relatives and friends, colleagues, editors, politicians and journalists provide a fascinating insight into her thoughts, her writing process and her social engagement. Whether she writes to Günter Grass or Max Frisch, demands to get access to her Stasi-files from Joachim Gauck or...

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»Mail, mail, mail«. This cri de cœur, jotted down in the calendar underneath the date of Sunday, 4th of March 1990, is not unfounded: Christa Wolf was a tremendously productive correspondent. Her letters to relatives and friends, colleagues, editors, politicians and journalists provide a fascinating insight into her thoughts, her writing process and her social engagement. Whether she writes to Günter Grass or Max Frisch, demands to get access to her Stasi-files from Joachim Gauck or leads exchanges with friends like Sarah Kirsch and Maxie Wander, we bear witness to friendships and rifts, disputes and approval and to the reflections of one of the most important authors of the 20th century.


»Dear Mr. Schubert,

I have never heard of anyone soliciting a decision on whether or not they should become a writer by means of some sort of circular letter. My answer is short and concise: if you are able to endure a life without writing, you’d best become a teacher.

Best regards,
Christa Wolf«

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Christa Wolf, born in Landsberg/Warthe (Gorzów Wielkopolski) in 1929, passed away in Berlin in 2011. Her work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Thomas Mann  Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize.

Christa Wolf, born in Landsberg/Warthe (Gorzów Wielkopolski) in 1929, passed away in Berlin in 2011. Her work has been honoured with...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

»We truly got used to all sorts of things«
Year of Publication: 2019
Sarah Kirsch, Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2019

»Dearest, dearest Christa, how nice that you remain here on this daft planet!«, Sarah Kirsch writes in the autumn of 1988 to her friend who has just recovered from a life-threatening illness. One...

Rights sold to:

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)

Moscow Diaries
Year of Publication: 2014
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2014

»Moscow! I had asked myself beforehand what the first thing to make an impression upon me might be.« So begin Christa Wolf’s writings about a city which she visited for the first time in 1957. In...

Rights sold to:

Russia (Text)

Obituary for the Living
Year of Publication: 2014
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2014

Charlotte, mother to the fifteen-year-old first person narrator of the novel, is the beloved center of the family, all commanding and outright. And yet, Charlotte has kept the obvious quiet: that...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Edizioni e/o)

One Day a Year in the New Century
Year of Publication: 2013
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2013

After the overwhelming success of City of Angels now follows the eagerly awaited posthumous publication of the second half of Christa Wolf's diary project One Day a...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), France (Seuil), Japan (Dogakusha)

August
Year of Publication: 2012
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2012

In 1976, Christa Wolf published Patterns of Childhood, her major autobiographical book. It has since been translated into twenty languages. Thirty-five years later, her last...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Las migas también son pan), Brazilian Portuguese rights digital (Jaguatrica), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (e/o), Catalan (Lleonard Muntaner), Estonia (Loomingu Raamatukogu), Serbia (Radni Sto), Slovenia (Modrijan)

Speak, that I May See You
Year of Publication: 2012
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2012

Speak, that I May See You – this Socratic imperative gives a sense of the goal Christa Wolf was striving for with her writing: to make her presence known, »to get to the roots...

Rights sold to:

Italy (e/o)

City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Year of Publication: 2010
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2010

It amounts to a veritable literary event: Christa Wolf’s completion of the major new novel on which she worked for more than ten years. City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr....

Rights sold to:

English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Russia (AST), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), France (Seuil), Italy (e/o), Netherlands (van Gennep), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Korea (Marco Polo Press), Hungary (Kalligram), Bulgaria (Lettera), Romania (Univers), Lithuania (Mintis), Serbia (Albatros), Turkey (IS Kültür), Greece (Kastaniotis), Macedonia (Blesok), Albania (Santori), Azerbaijan (Alatoran), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Denmark (Vandkunsten)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Der Club Bertelsmann)

 

Another View
Year of Publication: 2005
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2005

Shortly after the collapse of Communism, Christa Wolf spent some time at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Far away in the West, in a foreign world, she looks back at her life in the east...

Rights sold to:

Greece (Kastaniotis)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spain (Circula De Lectores), Italy (Edizioni E/O)

One Day a Year
Year of Publication: 2003
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 2003

»In 1960, following an invitation from a Moscow newspaper asking her to describe one day, the twenty-seventh of September, ›as precisely as possible‹, Christa Wolf...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Europa Editions), Russia (Kabinetny Utcheny), France (Fayard)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Italy (Edizioni e/o), Denmark (Aschehoug), Japan (Dogakusha)

No Place on Earth
Year of Publication: 1979
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 1979
In 1804, Karoline von Günderrode and Heinrich von Kleist met at a tea party in Winkel am Rhein – or at least that’s where they could have met. Christa Wolf lets the two outsiders...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (FSG), Spain (Las Migas de Pan), Arabic world rights (Al Karma), France (Stock), Italy (e/o), Sweden (Lind & Co.), Turkey (Is Kültür)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Ediciones la Deriva), Netherlands (Van Gennep), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Japan (Kobunsha), Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznańskie), Czech Republic (Mladá Fronta), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura), Romania (Univers)

Patterns of Childhood
Year of Publication: 1976
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 1976
This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.


Returning to her native town in East Germany forty years...
Rights sold to:

USA (FSG), UK (Virago), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Chinese simplex rights (Chunfeng Literature), Russia (Prawda), Arabic world rights (Kanaan), France (Stock), Italy (e/o), Netherlands (Van Gennep), Sweden (Norstedts), Japan (Kobunsha), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (Odeon), Slovakia (Smena), Hungary (Magvetö), Romania (Univers), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Serbia (Svetlost), Greece (University Studio Press)

They Divided the Sky
Year of Publication: 1963
Christa WolfYear of Publication: 1963
An absolute classic of East German literature. First published in 1963, the novel follows Rita and Manfred, who fall in love while working in a socialist “work brigade”. After becoming...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Ottawa University Press), Chinese complex rights (Chi Ming), Korea (Minumsa), Bengali (Jadavpur University Press)

Previously published in the respective language/territory; rights available again: Chinese simplex rights (People’s Publishing House), France (Éditions Stock), Netherlands (Uitgeverij Van Gennep), Slovenia (Druzba Piano), Greece (University Studio Press)

DISCOVER

News
Author and publisher Gerhard Wolf died on February 7, 2023, aged 94.
News
01.12.2021
On December 1, 2011, Christa Wolf died in Berlin at the age of 82.
News
18.03.2019
Christa Wolf would have been celebrating her 90th birthday on March 18, 2019.