… in this study, Hilbig's characters are murderers, spies and a pornographer. Thus, his work can
… Secondly, he explores what he sees as specific social 'taboos' in the GDR. Most obviously, …

… works of this highly acclaimed German writer. Of course the research invested in this study
could only take those works … output of the author under discussion progresses. In Cooke's case…

… However, when potentially one such writer emerged in the shape of Wolfgang Hilbig, with
a sociologically impeccable background (for instance, he had worked as a stoker), he turned …

… interesting discussion see Christian Semler's analysis in taz 4 ). Rather, what this discussion
seeks … In Die Kunde von den Bäumen Wolfgang Hilbig explores this category as a means of …

… The text which perhaps fits most obviously into a study of Hilbig's response to 'taboos' in the
… Here Hilbig sets up an opposition between the sexually repressed citizens of the East, who …

… Abstract The writings of East German author Wolfgang Hilbig reveal an indebtedness both
to the poetics of Baudelaire and to literary modernism. At the same time, his creative oeuvre is …

… sex is but one telling reminder of this Ersatzrealität. … Hilbig has made the autobiographical
parallelism clear in a recent … – rid of oppressive, politically motivated taboos and is free to write …

… Some critics read Die Weiber as a text directed against East Germany’s taboos, understanding
… Mouth and eyes, speaking and seeing-the key elements of Hilbig’s Bilderschreiben, of his …

… w.'s ambiguous existence within both rearms can be taken as Hilbig's criticism of the post-…
strict categories of either Täter or Opfer (Speaking the Taboo 2I2). This novel depicts the two …