Abstract
The text passages below are from an unpublished book by the East Berlin writer Jürgen Fuchs. Fuchs, born in 1950, belongs to the circle of Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann. He left school in 1969 and was trained as a skilled worker on the East German Railways. After his service with the National People's Army he studied social psychology in Jena. His writings first appeared in collections and periodicals in 1973. In April 1975, after a public reading of some of his works, he was expelled from the Party, expelled from the University a few days before the conclusion of his course, and branded a ‘counter-revolutionary’ and ‘slanderer of the State’. On 19 November 1976, having signed a letter of protest against Biermann's expatriation, he was arrested. The passages below, from Fuchs' book Aide-Memoire, were published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in November 1976.