Divided Loyalties

This study aims to shed light on the relationship of writers with power in East Germany by setting their work in the context of Soviet and SED German policy after 1945. Peter Davies provides an analysis of the politics of German division as it affected visions of German national identity within the...

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description This study aims to shed light on the relationship of writers with power in East Germany by setting their work in the context of Soviet and SED German policy after 1945. Peter Davies provides an analysis of the politics of German division as it affected visions of German national identity within the East German artistic community, and shows how this can give us a profound insight into contentious questions of artistic ‘dissidence’ and ‘conformity’. The second part of the study develops these ideas through a series of case studies of important individuals such as Johannes R. Becher, Peter Huchel, Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, analysing the complexities of their relationship with the power structures and ideology of the East German state in the institutional context of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste. The study concludes with an account of the consequences of the June 1953 uprising for these artists' view of their role in the GDR.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1672332025-10-16T13:16:30Z Divided Loyalties Davies, Peter East Germany national identity Johannes R. Becher Peter Huchel Bertolt Brecht Hanns Eisler thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 This study aims to shed light on the relationship of writers with power in East Germany by setting their work in the context of Soviet and SED German policy after 1945. Peter Davies provides an analysis of the politics of German division as it affected visions of German national identity within the East German artistic community, and shows how this can give us a profound insight into contentious questions of artistic ‘dissidence’ and ‘conformity’. The second part of the study develops these ideas through a series of case studies of important individuals such as Johannes R. Becher, Peter Huchel, Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, analysing the complexities of their relationship with the power structures and ideology of the East German state in the institutional context of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste. The study concludes with an account of the consequences of the June 1953 uprising for these artists' view of their role in the GDR. 2025-10-16T13:16:29Z 2025-10-16T13:16:29Z 2025-10-14T13:53:00Z 2000 book ONIX_20251014T154955_9781839546877_10 0957-0322 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106495 9781839546877 1902653211 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167233 eng MHRA Texts and Dissertations open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106495/1/9781839546877.pdf Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Translations 10.59860/td.b37d5fa 10.59860/td.b37d5fa 263272ae-2045-451b-ac91-b0037a2fd63a 9781839546877 1902653211 Texts and Translations 284 Cambridge open access
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Johannes R. Becher
Peter Huchel
Bertolt Brecht
Hanns Eisler
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Davies, Peter
Divided Loyalties
title Divided Loyalties
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topic East Germany
national identity
Johannes R. Becher
Peter Huchel
Bertolt Brecht
Hanns Eisler
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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topic_facet East Germany
national identity
Johannes R. Becher
Peter Huchel
Bertolt Brecht
Hanns Eisler
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