ISBN 311014753X. Ammon, a productive sociolinguist, has long wanted to investigate the multiple national varieties of standard German, and this book is the result. After a theoretical section, there are sections on Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, and Germany. Lexikon sozialistischer Literatur . The subtitle indicates that this lexicon limits itself to German socialist literature through 1945. The individual entries have been assembled by a team of researchers, but an editorial hand has seen to a regularity of presentation.
All entries have a short bibliography.
Peter Lang, 1995. A bio-bibliographical dictionary covering 97 writers who left the former GDR between 1961 and 1989. It includes portraits of authors and colored examples of the illustrators' work. In his critical study Pornschlegel analyses four authors and concludes that artistic sovereignty leads to bad politics. 11th completely rev.