Acknowledgments
Abbreviations, Definitions and Translations
Introduction: The Surreal without Surrealism
Chapter 1. The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Post-war Germany
Chapter 2. Return of the Avant-Garde? Brecht & Co. in the GDR
Chapter 3. ‘1968’ in the GDR: Franz Kafka and the Prague Spring
Chapter 4. Flirting with the Enemy: The Absurd and Grotesque in 1960s Poetry
Chapter 5. GDR’s Surrealist Nerve Centre: Adolf Endler’s Strange Nebbich World
Chapter 6. Wolfgang Hilbig’s Landscapes “Where the Minotaurs Graze”
Chapter 7. “Flip-out-Elke”: Elke Erb’s Surrealistic Poetry
Chapter 8. Gabriele Stötzer under Surveillance: Feminism and the Avant-Garde
Chapter 9. East German Advocates of Surrealism
Conclusion: “Max Ernst Was Here!”
Bibliography
Index