Few modern authors have given such powerful expression to the "elective affinity" between romanticism and feminism as Chnsta Wolf. When we refer to her as a romantic writer, we not only take into account her explicit interest in romantic women authors from the early 19th century, such as Caroline von Gunderrode and Bettina von Arnim, but also, and above all, her own romantic worldview, and its relationship to marxism and feminism.
Romanticism; feminism; marxism; German Democratic Republic; industrial civilization