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Christa Wolf: Auf Dem Weg Nach Tabou. Texte 1990-1994 GDR Bulletin Volume 22 Issue 2 Fall Article 19 1995 Christa Wolf: Auf dem Weg nach Tabou. Texte 1990-1994 Alexander Stephan University of Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/gdr This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Stephan, Alexander (1995) "Christa Wolf: Auf dem Weg nach Tabou. Texte 1990-1994," GDR Bulletin: Vol. 22: Iss. 2. https://doi.org/10.4148/gdrb.v22i2.1191 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in GDR Bulletin by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact cads@k- state.edu. Stephan: Christa Wolf: Auf dem Weg nach Tabou. Texte 1990-1994 40 GDR BULLETIN then, he has published several volumes of poetry, a to those powers. Schlesak is also very critical of the novel, Hörspiele, and a variety of other prose texts. course that the Wende has taken and, like many He received the Schubart Literary Prize in 1989 and others, deplores the "victor mentality" of the West the Nicolaus Lenau Prize in 1993. The present work that has made itself felt in intellectual circles (the is a complex interweaving of essayistic elaborations PEN conflict, for example) as well as in economic on diary entries Schlesak made between June 1989 and political terms. For Schlesak, the Gulf War and New Year's Eve, 1993. His reflections on and becomes a paradigm of Western materialism and reactions to the events of that time are probably to a abuse of power. The general decline of society and high degree symptomatic of those felt by many East culture that he castigates is underscored by his many European intellectuals. references to thinkers and writers from the tradition Schlesak categorizes his reflections by of European intellectual history, which also alternating among three different typefaces. The first communicate his sense of belonging firmly in that group that thus results centers around the events in tradition. Embedded in these various political, social, the months preceding and following November 1989. and cultural contexts, his personal history becomes a The second group consists of entries written largely document of social history. in reaction to the 1991 Gulf War. The final group, As autobiographical writing, Stehendes Ich in which begins in mid-1992 and ends on New Year's laufender Zeit is a fascinating example of Eve of 1993, contains more measured reflections on self-exploration and self-shaping. Although at times the broader implications of the earlier events, as well impatient with Schlesak's pessimistic and elegiac as references to their influence upon contemporary tone, I was nonetheless always aware of his attempt events and Schlesak's reactions to them. Other to be honest with himself and with his reader—no connections among the entries in each group were easy task. not clear to this reader, and the transitions from one group and time frame to another were not always readily apparent. While this annoyed and frustrated LINDA SCHELBITZKI PICKLE Westminster College, Missouri me at times, it may also be proof of Schlesak's success in capturing on the printed page the complexity of memory and the persistance of Wolf, Christa. Auf dem Weg nach Tabou. Texte individuality despite the tumultuous events that 1990-1994. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1994. drastically altered the framework in which they 344 pp. ISBN 3-462-02349-7. DM 38. operated. "Das Unterbewußtsein kommt mit dem Wissen vom Ort, an dem ich mich befinde, nicht Kein Zweifel, es wird nicht wenige Leser/Innen nach; stehendes Ich. Immer wieder erkenne ich geben, die Christa Wolfs neues Buch mit alter dieses Zurückbleiben an den neuen Grenzen, die Begeisterung lesen—auch wenn diese Sammlung von noch zu erreichen sind, auch wenn es sie real schon Essays, Reden, Widmungen und Aufzeichnungen nicht mehr gibt..." (149). weder ein geschlossener Text ist noch ein offenes, Some overarching themes and concerns emerge von Ideen und Projekten sprudelndes Tagebuch nach from Schlesak's complex text that make it an Art von Max Frisch. Wie früher in anderen Büchern interesting testimonial to the impact of recent events macht sich Christa Wolf auch diesmal wieder on intellectuals of Central and Eastern Europe. He zweifelnd, aber nicht verzweifelt auf die Suche nach documents his memories of and reactions during two einem "Ort . , den wir nie erreichen," nur daß visits he made to Rumania after November 1989. A dieser Ort jetzt nicht Utopie, sondern Tabou heißt sense of loss pervades these passages; the homeland und "in Afrika oder sonstwo" (10) liegt. Wieder he experienced as a child is no more, and the nähert sich die Autorin nachdenklich dem Werk von deterioration of culture and society under the Schriftstellerkollegen und Künstlern (Max Frisch, communists is glaringly apparent to him after his Grace Paley, Friederike Mayröcker, Anna Seghers, twenty-year absence. He rejoices in the end of the Heinrich Böll, Günther Uecker, Paul Parin, otl aicher, criminal rule of Ceausescu and of the other East Nuria Quevedo), und will doch nur, wie in ähnlichen, European dictatorial regimes, but at the same time älteren Essays, über die anderen sich selber finden. experiences a loss of identity as a writer in opposition Manche Feministin wird Sätze wie "sie hat ein Published by New Prairie Press, 1995 1 GDR Bulletin, Vol. 22 [1995], Iss. 2, Art. 19 BOOK REVIEWS 41 Geschlecht und verleugnet es nicht . man konnte sie auf die Esel Aufklärung und utopisches Denken, sogar sagen, es sei die Quelle ihrer Inspiration" (88) Zweifel am Fortschritt und Kritik an der mal notieren, aber auch festhalten, daß Christa Wolf Anschluß, mal Beitritt genannten Wiedervereinigung vorerst keine "im engeren Sinn feministische[n] von BRD und DDR zielen. Entsprechend rauh ist der Themen" (292) behandeln will. Sogenannte Linke, Wind, der anläßlich des Erscheinens von Tabou die in den letzten Jahren ihre Vergangenheit noch durch einen Teil des deutschen Blätterwaldes wehte. nicht widerrufen haben, aber auch Desillusionierte in Von einer "nibelungentreuen letzten Liebeserklärung den Beitrittsgebieten erkennen ihre eigenen an eine bessere Deutsche Demokratische Republik" Argumente in den kleinen und großen Seitenhieben schreibt da ein "Lyriker" im Focus, der sich als gegen Konsum und zügelloses Fortschrittsdenken, "1976 nach mehrjähriger politischer Haft in die die "neue (DDR-)Oberschicht aus Zugereisten" (52), Bundesrepublik ausgebürgert" vorstellt. Eine "Anpassung," "Feigheit" (76) und "Selbstbeweih• "wirklich selbst-kritische Reflexion" über ihr Leben räucherung" (80), das '"neue Geld'" (233) und in der "SED-Diktatur" erwartet die Welt von Christa "Kolonisierung" (335), aber auch in der Sehnsucht Wolf, um dann, dem Focus ähnlich ("wie Benns nach "radikaldemokratischem Denken" (19), Erklärung zur Ankunft des neuen Staates im Jahre "Basisdemokratie" (20) und einem allgemeinen 1933"), ausgerechnet in die Mottenkiste der NS- Mitspracherecht der Menschen wieder, mit denen die Geschichte zu greifen, wenn sie Günter Grass für Tabou zentralen Aufsätze und Reden zur vorwirft, der von allen guten Geistern des neuen deutschen Wi(e)dervereinigung und ihren Deutschlands der neunziger Jahre verlassenen Nachwehen gespickt sind. Ungeachtet der '"lieben Christa'" einen "privaten Spruchkammer• Materialschlacht der Feuilletons gegen Gesinnungs- bescheid der entlastenden Art" zuzustellen. Für die ästheten und DDR-Nostalgie schlägt Christa Wolf Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hat sich Christa Wolf den Bogen von der bewußt an den Anfang des seit dem Ende der DDR von einer "Staatsdichterin" Bandes gestellten und bereits in früheren zur "Betroffenheitsautorin" gewendet, die im Ton Sammlungen von ihr abgedruckten "Rede auf dem von Petra Kelly schreibt. Andere schütteln den Kopf Alexanderplatz" vom 4. November 1989 zu ihrem darüber, daß in Tabou die "entscheidenden "Abschied von Phantomen—Zur Sache: Erinnerungen" (259) an die unglücklichen Deutschland" überschriebenen Vortrag von 1994 in Stasikontakte aus der Zeit des Mauerbaus nicht der Staatsoper von Dresden. Medizin, Psychologie wieder auftauchen. Und natürlich setzt Marcel Reich- und Naturwisssenschaften werden noch einmal mit Ranicki, der inzwischen selbst mit einer verdrängten Literatur in Verbindung gebracht. Philologen dürften Vergangenheit als Diener des kommunistischen dankbar sein für aufklärende Bemerkungen, etwa polnischen Staates zu kämpfen hat, jenes Sperrfeuer zum Umfeld des 11. Plenums des ZK der SED im fort, das ihm schon seit geraumer Zeit den Weg Jahre 1965. Und natürlich kommen Leser, denen an freimacht, um die "rechthaberische" "Larmoyanz" jenem seit Jahren unverkennbaren Wolf-sound und die an eine "Volksschullehrerin aus der Provinz" gelegen ist, auf ihre Kosten, vom ersten Satz des erinnernde "biedere und betuliche" Sprache von Buches— "Eine Art Mit-Schrift wäre mein Schreib• Christa Wolf bruchlos aus der "fatalen" politischen ideal" (9)—bis zum Schlußbild vom deutschen Brot: "Verblendung" der weiterhin dem "Reich des "Das würde mir gefallen, und auch das gibt es ja: Bösen," sprich: der ehemaligen DDR, und damit Deutsche aus verschiedenen Himmelsrichtungen, die ihrem eigenen Leben und Schreiben nicht miteinander arbeiten, Projekte entwickeln, die sich bedingungslos abschwörenden "Mutter Wolfen" dann um den Tisch setzen ... das Brot auf den Tisch {Spiegel), abzuleiten. legen, das sie aus ihren verschiedenen Landschaften mitgebracht haben, es einander zu kosten geben
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