She is the daughter of Christa Wolf, the East German author whose books occasionally were suppressed by the Government.

Christa Wolf has set herself nothing less than the task of exploring what it is to be a conscious human being alive in a moment of history.

Christa Wolf was prepared to take some risks in the cause of artistic freedom.

Christa Wolf clung to her socialist ideals through thick and thin.

Christa Wolf never fully reconciled herself to life in the new Germany, and her later writings were pervaded by a sense of loss.

December 1: Christa Wolf, 82, German literary critic, novelist, and essayist.

Kassandra by Christa Wolf, published in 1983.

December 1 - Christa Wolf, 82, German writer and novelist, after long illness.

Schirrmacher started the onslaught in 1990, with an unprecedented attack on Christa Wolf.

December 1 - Christa Wolf, 82, writer and poet.