ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the developments, namely the increasingly close relationships between a significant number of writers and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), may seem at first sight paradoxical in that they occurred at a time when that party, through its new Godesberg Programme, was abandoning positions that were dear to many writers. The doubts about the SPD are even visible in the editor’s contribution, Walser speaking of the party having made sacrifices to the most vulgar anti-communism. The chapter deals with some writers began to take in the late 1960s; suffice it to say that the political crisis brought on primarily by the Grand Coalition and the students was compounded by an aesthetic crisis among many writers. In the case of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the reader is left wondering how the writer of the following comments can recommend the SPD at all: There is in our country a party that is called democratic and social and is in opposition.
