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Science Fiction Literature in East Germany Fritzsche cover3 26/9/06 16:21 Page 1 15 East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a Sonja Fritzsche subversive space in another time and place. One of the country’s most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party’s official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. via free access This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The ScienceScience FictionFiction LiteratureLiterature book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before • 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country Science Fiction Literature in East Germany Literature Science Fiction (1949–1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, inin EastEast GermanyGermany fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country’s short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sonja Fritzsche Sonja Fritzsche received her BA from Indiana University in both History and German. In 1995 she received an MA in Modern 15 European History from UCLA and, in 2001, a PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in German and Eastern European Studies at EAST GERMAN STUDIES / Illinois Wesleyan University. She has published articles on East German science fiction film, fandom, and literature. DDR–STUDIEN ISBN 3-03910-739-9 Peter Lang Fritzsche cover3 26/9/06 16:21 Page 1 15 East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a Sonja Fritzsche subversive space in another time and place. One of the country’s most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party’s official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. via free access This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The ScienceScience FictionFiction LiteratureLiterature book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before • 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country Science Fiction Literature inEastGermany Literature Science Fiction (1949–1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, inin EastEast GermanyGermany fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country’s short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sonja Fritzsche Sonja Fritzsche received her BA from Indiana University in both History and German. In 1995 she received an MA in Modern 15 European History from UCLA and, in 2001, a PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in German and Eastern European Studies at EAST GERMAN STUDIES / Illinois Wesleyan University. She has published articles on East German science fiction film, fandom, and literature. DDR–STUDIEN Peter Lang Science Fiction Literature in East Germany Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access East German Studies/ DDR–Studien Volume 15 Edited by Richard A. Zipser PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access Science Fiction Literature in East Germany Sonja Fritzsche PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografi e; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at ‹http://dnb.ddb.de›. British Library and Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library, Great Britain, and from The Library of Congress, USA ISSN 1072-0626 Print. ISBN 978-3-03910-739-1 Print. US-ISBN 0-8204-8001-0 ISBN 978-1-78874-564-2 eBook ISBN 978-1-78874-565-9 EPUB ISBN 978-1-78874-566-6 MOBI DOI 10.3726/b14377 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 unported license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © Sonja Fritzsche, 2006 Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, Bern 2006 Wabernstrasse 40, CH-3007 Bern, Switzerland [email protected] www.peterlang.com Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access To my parents, Nan and Dave Fritzsche, and to my sister, Tanya Losey Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access Contents Acknowledgements 9 List of Abbreviations 11 Chapter One Introduction 13 Chapter Two German Science Fiction before 1949 39 Chapter Three Reconciling Science Fiction with Socialist 67 Realism (1949–1960) Chapter Four “Fantasy – Idea – Realization” (1961–1970) 103 Chapter Five Utopian Realism – The Case of Eberhardt 131 Del Antonio's Return of the Forefathers Chapter Six An East German New Wave (1971–1980) 163 Chapter Seven Ambiguous Utopia – Johanna and Günter 195 Brauns’ Uncanny Manifestations on Omega XI Chapter Eight Utopian/Dystopian Resurgence in a 217 Time of Perestroika (1981–1990) Chapter Nine Searching for Utopia – Angela and 237 Karlheinz Steinmüllers’ The Dream Master Chapter Ten Bleibt was? East German Science Fiction 277 Since 1989 Works Cited 289 Index 321 Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access Acknowledgements All projects are the sum of the work of many people behind the scenes. Throughout the research and writing process, I have benefited from the advice and moral support of numerous individuals, all of whom I cannot name here, but whom I wish to thank nonetheless. First of all, I wish to extend my appreciation to Jack Zipes, Arlene Teraoka, Rick McCormick, Mary Jo Maynes and John Mowitt, who have been patient and forthcoming with extensive resources and critique. Thomas Kramer and Vibs Petersen also provided valuable commentary. I would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Office of External Affairs at the Freie Univer- sität, Berlin, the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Graduate School and Illinois Wesleyan University for financial support that proved invaluable for the completion of this project. For their time and insight into the world of East German science fiction, I would like to thank authors Johanna and Günter Braun, Alexander Kröger and his wife Susanne Routschek, Carlos Rasch, Karlheinz and Angela Steinmüller, Michael Szameit and editors Ekkehard Redlin and Erik Simon. Many contacts and opportunities would have passed me by if it had not been for the industrious members of the Andymon science fiction fan club, including, among others, Wolfgang Both, Siegfried Breuer, Ronald Hoppe, Hardy Kett- litz, Hans-Peter Neumann, Klaus Scheffler, Ingolf Vonau, and Anita Winkler. We miss collector Hans-Jürgen Erich. The staffs of the Bundesarchiv–Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Amerikanische Gedenk- bibliothek–Berlin, and Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar have been invaluable. In addition, I wish to acknowledge the Das Neue Berlin/ Eulenspiegel Verlag, which furnished and granted permission to use the original book cover artwork from Del Antonio’s Heimkehr der Vorfahren, Johanna and Günter Braun’s Unheimliche Erscheinungs- formen auf Omega XI and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s Der Traummeister. Sonja Fritzsche - 978-1-78874-565-9 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/11/2019 02:27:22AM via free access For careful and consistent reading, I would like to thank Gun Edberg–Caldwell, Barbara Drescher, Rachel Huener, Beth Muellner, and Leo Riegert. Stokes Schwartz caught errors that I could no longer see. My student assistant Matt Thompson worked tirelessly at a tedious research task. Thanks are also due to Marina Balina, Kathy Brown, Robert Doebgen, Klaus Frühauf, Detlef Kannapin, Ludmila Kizer, Patrick McLane, Julie Prandi, Heidi Soneson, Nancy Sultan, Lyman Tower Sargeant, and Gerhard Wiechmann. Finally, I cannot begin to adequately thank my family, Nan and Dave Fritzsche, Tanya Losey, and Stokes Schwartz, for their unwavering moral support and painstaking reminders that there is a life beyond the book manuscript. This book is a result of the input of many individuals. Still, this author has been the one to sift through and analyze the information provided.
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