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The system of control and disciplining of Literature in the Polish People Republic distinguished in principal way from the system in German Democratic Republic. On the ground of the documents from the former Main Office for Press, Publications and Show-Control and from the authors private collection the mechanism of functioning of censorship and the trial to lead the readers interest were reconstructed. So called intern publishing opinions and afterwords create main field of authors interest. To demonstrate the mechanism of censorship and controll in a meaningfull way the mode for treating translations of prose written by Martin Walser and Christa Wolf was distinguished.

The text "Fritz von Unruh - the follower of Tolstoy's view" deals with the views, attitude and political activities of an eminent writer Fritz von Unruh who came from the well-known family of Prussian junkers who served for many generations the Prussian kings and the Wilhelm Reich. His experiences of the I World War brought about a distinct change in the writer's attitude, namely, he turned toward pacifism and antimilitarism. Thesis of the work proclaims: von Unruh was under the influence of Leo Tolstoy's views, which by necessity must have led to misunderstanding of the principle obligatory for each writer-politician. Namely, to want, to desire - is one thing, whereas to be able to is another thing. Not differentiating between "the spirit" and "act" (cf. Max Weber) must have ended with the inefficiency of actions of the writer von Unruh - the actions of a distinct moral option.

Aus dem Vorwort: Dieser Band vereint die Beiträge einer deutsch-polnischen Konferenz der Universitäten Halle-Wittenberg und Poznán von 1984, in der es um literarische und ideologische Aspekte des deutschen Faschismus ging. vprallem um völkische, antisemitische und rassistische Literatur.