Begrenzung und Ausgrenzung: Die Mauer in Bertolt Brechts Gedicht „Der Blumengarten” (1953)
Limitation and exclusion: The Wall in Bertolt Brecht’s Poem „The Flower Garden” (1953)

Summary/Abstract: From the beginning, Brecht’s poetry is characterized by a certain ambivalence. This could well be tactically motivated, for example when it came to opening up media in order to publish the first works. Brecht cultivated this ambiguity to the end. The Buckow Elegies were written in 1953 against the background of the workers’ uprising of June 17, 1953, which was violently ended by the Soviet army. Here again intelligent behavior was required from Brecht, who on the one hand owed a lot to the GDR and on the other hand was only too aware of the totalitarian oppression of art. With the image of a flower garden, which stands for the GDR and is bordered by a wall that fulfills different functions depending on one’s point of view, he addresses this topic – eight years before a wall was actually built.

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