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Czy w NRD istniała cenzura literacka? Przekształcenia i biurokratyczno-organizacyjne umocowanie urzędu kontroli literatury w NRD

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Rajch M.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2017

vol. 41

issue 3

95-103

In communist countries censorship offices were the final link in the entire process of control of a given literary text before its publication. The Polish Central Office for the Control of Press, Publications and Performances of the ideological and political control of the manuscripts submitted. The [formulation of the] publication schedule and monitoring its implementation was done by institutions answerable to the Ministry of Culture and Art. In the GDR right from the start attempts were made to concentrate the two forms of control in one institution, which ultimately took place in 1963 after the establishment of the Central Board of Publishing Houses and Book Trade (Hauptverwaltung Verlage und Buchhandel). This institution held logistical and economic control of publishing houses, supervising from day one the publication schedules and monitoring the books prepared for issue as to their ideological and political content. It also made the final decision as to whether given books can come out and on what conditions, or whether their publication should be prevented.

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s output and literary censorship in the DDR

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Rajch M.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2020

vol. 58

issue 3

421-434

Utwory Henryka Sienkiewicza, polskiego pisarza i laureata literackiej nagrody Nobla z 1905 roku, zostały poddane kontroli aparatu cenzury w NRD kilkukrotnie. Za pozycje pożądane i godne przybliżenie wschodnioniemieckim czytelnikom uznano jego nowele, które poruszały dziewiętnastowieczną problematykę społeczną. Nawiązującą do tematyki średniowiecznej powieść Krzyżacy spotkała się z dużą aprobatą wydawnictw i urzędu cenzury z tego względu, iż pozwalała na krytyczne rozliczenie się z narodowym socjalizmem w Niemczech, od którego NRD się dystansowała. Sporego zagrożenia ideologicznego dla młodych czytelników wschodnioniemieckich dopatrywano się natomiast w powieści dla młodzieży W pustyni i w puszczy i z tego powodu została ona wycofana z procedury wydawniczej.

Works by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish writer and the winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature, were subjected to verification by the DDR’s censorship apparatus several times. Censors considered his novellas which discussed 19th-century social issues as desirable and worth promoting among East German readers. His novel Krzyżacy, which was set in the Middle Ages, was accepted eagerly both by publishing houses and the censorship office as it enabled national socialism in Germany to be viewed in critical terms, as the DDR distanced itself from the system. Reviewers did, however, find a major ideological threat for young readers in East Germany in a young adult novel entitled W pustyni i w puszczy, and for that reason it was withdrawn from the publishing procedure.

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Czy w NRD istniała cenzura literacka? Przekształcenia i biurokratyczno-organizacyjne umocowanie urzędu kontroli literatury w NRD

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s output and literary censorship in the DDR