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gains of western-aided development among broader sections of the people and not only among a handful of party functionaries.
The growing dissidence in the GDR is also marked by its presence among writers and intellectuals. Since the poet and songster Wolf Biermann was deprived of his citizenship in November 1976, nearly a dozen other writers, poets and actors who had expressed solidarity with him Thomas Brasch, Reiner Kunze, Sarah Kirch, Juergen Fuchs, Hans Joachim Schaedlich, Manfred Krug, Eva Maria Hagen, Hellmuth Nitsche, Gerulf Panach and Christian Kunert