Introduction: Alexander Stephan
Translated by Jan vn Heurck

Ulrich Plenzdorf
The New Sufferings of Young W.
(Translated by Kenneth P. Wilcox)

EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM

Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Suffer the Little Children....

Kaethe Ruelicke, Hans Garbe Tells His Story

Erwin Strittmatter, Electric Power

Erik Neutsch, Hartholz

Werner Braeunig, On the Way

Fritz Rudolf Fries, Description of My Friends

Jurij Brezan, The Christmas Story

Helga Koenigsdorf, Property Damage

Helga Schuetz, The Earthquake at Sangerhausen

Reiner Kunze, My Friend, a Poet of Love

Guenter de Bruyn, Forget-Me-Not

Wolfgang Hilbig, Solid Ground

Guenter Kunert, Love Story--Made in the GDR

WOMEN IN THE GDR

Friedrich Wolf, Anna and the Men's Strike

Irmtraud Morgner, White Easter

Maxie Wander, The Fear of Love

Sarah Kirsch, A Remarkable Example of Determination in Woman

Irina Liebmann, Sybille N.

Angela Stachowa, This Winter

Christine Wolter, I Have Married Again

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NAZI PAST

Franz Fuehmann, The Jew Car

Johannes Bobrowski, Mouse Party

Anna Seghers, The Reed

Stephan Hermlin, My Peace

Heinz Knobloch, Change at City Center

Heiner Mueller, The Father

Hermann Kant, For the Files

THE END OF THE GDR

Christoph Hein, I Saw Stalin Once When I Was a Child

Erich Loest, I Have Never Drunk Champagne

F. Hendrik Melle, I.M.

Beate Morgenstern, The Reunion

Stefan Heym, Property

Joachim Walther, The Raft of Utopia

Daniela Dahn, The Invincible Monument

Joochen Laabs, Beautiful Summer

All translated by Jan van Heurck

The Authors