Abstract
While most East German writers avoided addressing the topic of June 17th, 1953, Thomas Brasch dedicated a whole scene entitled “The Strike” to that day in his play Rotter, which he had started in East Germany and finished after moving to West Germany in 1977. This article seeks to show how the playwright subverts the official East German version of the events in his depiction of the uprising, equally rejecting, however, the West German vision of that day. Thomas Brasch refused to be affiliated to either political side of the Wall. Instead, “The Strike” should be considered as an attempt by Brasch to question the various interpretations or “legends” made up around June 17th, 1953, and therefore, the very status linked to an historic event.
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