{"id":824,"date":"2023-03-30T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/?p=824"},"modified":"2023-03-30T07:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:45:43","slug":"taking-action-the-political-life-of-christa-wolf-in-her-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/taking-action-the-political-life-of-christa-wolf-in-her-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Taking Action! The political life of Christa Wolf in her own words<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Machaela Nicholls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Picture1-1-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Picture1-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Picture1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Picture1-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Picture1-1-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Picture1-1.jpg 1370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot of Christa Wolf, from <em>Time Loops: In Conversation with Christa Wolf <\/em>(1990), directed by Karlheinz Mund, DEFA Film Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christa Wolf was a revolutionary German novelist whose personal writings empowered the German people to stand up against oppression and the patriarchal society. In <em>Time Loops: In Conversation with Christa Wolf <\/em>(1990), we are allowed into Wolf\u2019s home as she tells us of her involvement within the political sphere and the change she helped to enact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are shown archive footage from political and literary meetings alongside in-home interviews. Some of this is interlaced with Wolf\u2019s voice-over reading from her novels and speeches. Through this we gain understanding of what inspired her artistic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She explains that she writes from a very personal place and is constantly questioning herself, which she brings into her writing. She talks about the effect growing up in Nazi Germany had on her writing and how she always advocated for a better government. Wolf is also inspired by love in her writing, stating that writing would suffer without love and that you need love to be able to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolf also advocates for women\u2019s rights and the importance of women having a voice. This led her to founding a woman\u2019s writing club in the 1980s where they would meet and discuss politics and their artistic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This film brings a voice to a great woman whose involvement in politics and writing changed Germany for the better. She decided to take action even when she felt that everyone was against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch <em>Time Loops: In Conversation with Christa Wolf<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanopy.com\/en\/uwe\/video\/12305969\">Kanopy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Further viewing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanopy.com\/en\/uwe\/video\/116680\"><em>Divided Heaven<\/em><\/a> (1963) \u2013 based on Wolf\u2019s novel, <em>Der geteilte Himmel<\/em>, directed by Konrad Wolf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanopy.com\/en\/uwe\/video\/117151\"><em>All My Girls<\/em><\/a> (1979) \u2013 directed by Iris Gusner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanopy.com\/en\/uwe\/video\/12305927\"><em>35 Photos<\/em><\/a> (1984) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanopy.com\/en\/uwe\/video\/116724\"><em>Winter Ad\u00e9<\/em><\/a> (1988) \u2013 directed by Helke Misselwitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Machaela Nicholls Christa Wolf was a revolutionary German novelist whose personal writings empowered the German people to stand up against oppression and the patriarchal society. In Time Loops: In Conversation with Christa Wolf (1990), we are allowed into Wolf\u2019s home as she tells us of her involvement within the political sphere and the change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/taking-action-the-political-life-of-christa-wolf-in-her-own-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<strong>Taking Action! The political life of Christa Wolf in her own words<\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,44,43,52],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-film","tag-gender","tag-women","tag-womens-history-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/equality-and-diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}