Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf (born Christa Ihlenfeld on March 18, 1929) is a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former East Germany.Wolf was born in Landsberg an der Warthe in the Province of Brandenburg. As a result of World War II, Wolf and her family were expelled from their home across the new Oder-Neisse border in 1945 and they settled in Mecklenburg, in what would become the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. She joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1949 and left it in 1989-90. She studied literature at Jena and Leipzig. After her graduation she worked for the German Writers' Union and became an editor for a publishing company. Stasi records found in 1993 show that she had worked as an informant (Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter) during the years 1959–61. The Stasi officers did, however, criticize her "reticence", and lost interest in her cooperation. She was herself then closely surveiled for the next 30 years.
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