REFLECTIONS ON THE ATTEMPT TO CORRELATE LITERATURE AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT - THE PROSE WRITINGS OF WOLF,CHRISTA

Consciously excluding the public debate on Christa Wolf's personal arrangement with the social norms and institutions of the GDR, the author aims at tracing affirmative and reflexive moments in her prose writings. This approach opens up educational-theoretically relevant insights in so far as - following Christa Wolf's own claim - the attempt to correlate literature and education is considered. These deliberations are based on concepts of education and literature the essence of which, being both oriented by subjectivity, lies in their perfectability as fundamental openness and imperfection. Only and especially in the impossibility to supply models of immediacy, the literary representation of reality achieves the character of a model for successful educational processes.