Building Bridges with the ‘Class Enemy’

This volume examines how literary texts from Great Britain and Ireland were received – or ignored – in the GDR, both by official institutions, for example in the fields of education, the mass media, publishing and censorship, and by ‘ordinary’ and prominent readers. The English- and German-language contributions by experts from various fields bring together the findings of a symposium held at the University of Bamberg in October 2021. The volume offers a broad range of insights and interpretations and can serve both as an overview of a historical situation and as a starting point for further research. With contributions by Mario Ebest | Pascal Fischer | Erhard Hänel | Fergal Lenehan | Ilse Nagelschmidt | Berthold Petzinna | Joachim Schwend | Rhian Thomas