Sources

  1. From the 69th Program of the “Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany” (June 1945)

  2. Bertolt Brecht’s “Herr Puntila and his Man Matti” by the Berliner Ensemble (1949)

  3. Stefan Heymann, "Cosmopolitanism and Formalism" (December 1, 1949)

  4. Resolution by the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, adopted at the Fifth Session (March 15-17, 1951)

  5. Neues Deutschland Report on a Discussion about Realism and Formalism in the School of Applied Arts in Magdeburg (April 24, 1951)

  6. Poem by Johannes R. Becher on the Death of Stalin (1953)

  7. The People's House of Culture [Volks-Kulturhaus] in Letschin (July 1, 1953)

  8. Erwin Strittmatter Talks to Readers at the Writers’ Bazaar on Berlin’s Stalinallee (May 1, 1954)

  9. Minister of Culture Johannes R. Becher (left) Greets Thomas Mann (right) at the Weimar National Theater (May 14, 1955)

  10. "The Cultural League at Ten" – Lead Article in Neues Deutschland (July 2, 1955)

  11. Professor of Philosophy Wolfgang Harich (December 1956)

  12. Walter Ulbricht: The Second Five-Year Plan and the Building Up of Socialism in the German Democratic Republic (1956)

  13. Report of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED on the Emergence and Goals of the “Harich Group” (March 26, 1957)

  14. Alfred Kurella on "The Influence of Decadence" (July 1957)

  15. Directive on Programming for Light Music and Dance Music (January 2, 1958)

  16. "To the Base – against Self-Satisfaction": Erwin Strittmatter’s Contribution to the Discussion at the Bitterfeld Conference [Excerpt] (April 24, 1959)