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Dear Colleagues, The July issue of German Life and Letters is now available. This Special Number - 'The GDR between Conformism and Subversion' - is edited by Pól Ó Dochartaigh and consists of selected papers from the 2009 Ulster conference of the CUTG/AGS. For abstracts and further details visit: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118509619/home John Sandford ********** CONTENTS 'Geteilte Stadt' (poem by Volker Braun inspired by his visit to Belfast) Introduction: The GDR between Conformism and Subversion (Pól Ó Dochartaigh) Censorship and Opinion Formation: Franziska Linkerhand on the GDR Stage (Laura Bradley) 'Eine Bindung durch Hass': Double-Agency, Mimesis and the Role of Hands in Monika Maron's Stille Zeile Sechs (Annie Ring) 'Nachleben': Volker Braun and the Death and Afterlife of the GDR (Karen Leeder) Die Überlebensfigur Sächsische Dichterschule (Gerrit-Jan Berendse) Playing with the 'Erbe': Songs of the 1848 Revolution in the GDR (David Robb) 'Ostpolitik, Nordpolitik': Partition and National Identity in Germany and Ireland (Pól Ó Dochartaigh) The Last Gasp of Socialism: Economics and Culture in 1960s East Germany (Andrew Evans) Negotiating 'Femininity' in the GDR Prison Narrative: Discourses of Character Development and Incorrigibility in Elisabeth Graul's Die Farce (1991) (Kim Richmond) 'Ich wollte eine Distel im sozialistischen Rosengarten sein' - Autobiographische Texte von zwei DDR-Jugendgenerationen (Katja Warchold) **********