Ulrich Plenzdorf Series

Ulrich Plenzdorf was a German author and dramatist whose socially critical works gained fame in both East and West Germany. He studied philosophy and film, working for DEFA. His renowned work, written in the youth jargon of the GDR in the 1970s, chronicles the tragic story of a young man's attempt to break free from his stifling bourgeois environment, drawing parallels to Goethe's classic. Since 2004, he had been a guest lecturer at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut in Leipzig.