Biography

Born on 18 March 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, then Germany, Christa Wolf is one of the best known authors from the former East Germany. After studying germanistics and literature in Jena and Leipzig, she became an editor for a publishing company, but soon had her breakthrough as a writer with the publishing of "Der geteilte Himmel" (Divided heaven) in 1963. In the following years, she published successful novels, short stories and essays such as "Nachdenken über Christa T." (The Quest for Christa T.) (1969), "Kein Ort. Nirgends" (1979) and "Kassandra" (1983). For her works, she has received several important national and international awards.
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Received many important awards such as the Heinrich Mann Prize (1963), the Georg Büchner Prize (1980) and the Schiller Memorial Prize (1983).

Has two daughters, Annette (born in 1952) and Katrin (born in 1956).

Her parents had owned a grocery in Landsberg an der Warthe, until the family fled to Mecklenburg at the end of World War II.

Records of the former East German secret service "Stasi" found in 1993 proved that she had worked as "IM" (informant) between 1959 and 1961, but the officers lost interest in her cooperation and surveyed her for the next 30 years.