Christa Wolf

The multi-award-winning Christa Wolf, a novelist, critic, and essayist, was one of the leading authors in the German-speaking world in the twentieth century. She was born in 1929 in Landsberg (now part of Poland) and passed away in Berlin in 2011. Wolf studied Philology in Leipzig and Jena and also worked for the Writers' Union of the former East Germany. From the early 1960s, she dedicated herself to literature, gaining widespread recognition with "Divided Heaven." She established herself in the minds of critics and readers with the book "A Model Childhood," a novel with strong autobiographical elements, where she narrates her childhood during the Nazi era. Many significant works followed, such as "Cassandra," "Medea," and the novella "What Remains," her third work published by Kastaniotis Editions after the novel "In the Flesh" (translated by Christos Asteriou, 2005) and the narratives "With Another Look" (translated by Giota Lagoudakou, 2009).