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Christa Wolf

Died in 2011

Christa Ihlenfeld was born in 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, now in Poland, the daughter of shopkeepers; in 1945, her family fled the Red Army and settled in Mecklenburg. A member of the ruling party in East Germany from 1949 to 1989, she studied German philology at Jena and Leipzig, then worked for the writers' union and in publishing. Her 1963 novel made her known. Büchner Prize winner in 1980, she herself revealed in 1993 that she had been registered as a Stasi informant from 1959. She died in Berlin in 2011.

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