The “Gentle Lie”: Women and the GDR Medical System in Film and Literature

Abstract | Within the context of medical-historical research, this article compares the depiction of female patients in GDR and post-GDR fictional texts: Lothar Warneke’s Die Beunruhigung (1982), Christa Wolf’s Nachdenken über Christa T. (1968) and Leibhaftig (2002), and Kathrin Schmidt’s Du stirbst...

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Main Author: Sonja E. Klocke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2018-04-01
Series:Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies
Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29382