Begleitumstände

In the summer semester of 1979, Uwe Johnson delivered five lectures at the University of Frankfurt am Main as part of the guest professorship for poetics. The aim of this program is to provide foundational insights from the writer's workshop. Uwe Johnson, as the first lecturer after the resumption of the guest professorship after ten years, approaches this objective in his own unique way. He shares how the GDR shaped him into a writer, yet he was unable to publish in the GDR and consequently moved to West Berlin; what assignments he had to complete in West Germany; how the anniversaries came about; in short, not only are the circumstances surrounding his work explained, but Uwe Johnson also takes the reader to the heart of his literary productivity.