Katharina Raabe

b. 1957, is a philosopher and musicologist. From 1993 to 2000 she was editor at Rowohlt Berlin, since 2000 she is editor for eastern European literature at Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

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As the fog lifted

Literature in eastern central Europe since 1989

After 1989, uncensored editions of many classics of contemporary eastern European literature became available, and numerous authors were discovered for the first time in the West. Meanwhile, a younger generation of writers, their imaginations liberated by events, were quick to respond to the new appetite for understanding the communist past. Katharina Raabe, editor for eastern European literature at Suhrkamp Verlag, surveys some of the most important of these authors and describes German publishers’ role in bringing them to western readers.

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