Цензура становилась излишней

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"В октябре 1956 года при драматических обстоятельствах в Польше произошла смена власти. Во главе коммунистической партии снова стоял Гомулка, еще недавно обвинявшийся в «титоизме» и «национализме» и проведший несколько лет в тюрьме. К радости писателей и журналистов, немало способствовавших победе Гомулки, он сразу же пообещал свободу печати и литературы. Правда, цензура все еще существовала и, как и прежде, все тексты следовало представлять ей на утверждение. Но они возвращались в редакции и издательства в неизмененном виде. Так как цензоры не получали никаких указаний от Центрального комитета партии, они не знали, против чего возражать. К печати принималось все. Цензура, очевидно, становилась излишней, и поговаривали, что вскоре ее отменят.

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Christa Reinig (6 August 1926, Berlin – 30 September 2008, Munich) was a German poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, and dramatist. She began her career in the Soviet occupation zone which became East Berlin, was banned there, after publishing in West Germany, and moved to the West in 1964, settling in Munich. She was openly lesbian. Her works are marked by black humor, and irony.

Reinig was raised in eastern Berlin by her mother, Wilhelmine Reinig, who was a cleaning woman.[1] After the end of the Second World War, Reinig was a Trümmerfrau, and worked in a factory.[1] She also sold flowers on the Alexanderplatz in the 1940s.[2] In the 1950s, she obtained her Abitur at night school, and went on to study art history at Humboldt University,[2] after which she took a job at the Märkisches Museum, the museum of the history of Berlin, and the Mark Brandenburg, where she worked, until she left Berlin for the West.[1]

She made her literary début in the late 1940s in the satirical magazine Ulenspiegel,[3] at the urging of Bertolt Brecht; she had been working there as an editor.[4] In 1956, her "Ballade vom blutigen Bomme" ("Ballad of Bloody Bomme", first published in 1952)[5] was included in Walter Höllerer's poetic anthology Transit, which brought her to the attention of readers in the West; one writer in 1963 referred to its "strange mix of benevolent cynicism and bottomless sadness".[6] However, she was largely forbidden to publish in the East, beginning in 1951,[3][4] while she was still a student.[7] She was already involved in the West Berlin Gruppe Zukunftsachlicher Dichter (group of future-reasoning writers),[8] and continued to publish both poetry and stories with West German publishers.

In 1964, after her mother's death,[8] Reinig travelled to West Germany to receive the Bremen Literature Prize and stayed there, settling in Munich.[1][3] She suffered from ankylosing spondylitis; she left her desk at the museum empty, except for an X-ray of her crooked spine.[5]

In 1971, she broke her neck in a fall on a spiral staircase; inadequate medical care left her severely disabled,[9] and having to survive on a government pension.[3] She could not use a typewriter again, until being fitted with specially made prismatic spectacles in 1973, after which she wrote her first novel, the autobiographical Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie (The Heavenly and the Earthly Geometry), which she completed in 1974.[1][4][9]

Reinig died on 30 September 2008 in the Catholic care home, where she had moved at the start of that year.[3]