The first book, in the English-speaking world or elsewhere, to offer an analysis and evaluation of GDR Goethe reception. Goethe and Schiller, as representatives of Weimar Classicism, had a pivotal function in the cultural policy of the GDR in the forty years of its existence (1949-1989). Goethe in particular was crucial to the GDR's aim of finding afocus for the cultural reformation of post-war Germany in the Soviet-occupied zone. This book...