The arts in West Germany since 1945
How have West German writers, artists and musicians responded to the experience of building a new society? What does it mean to be a German today? How have Germans come to terms with their past? Is the mood one of resignation, responsibility or further revolt? Richard Mayne reflects on these questions with, among others, novelists Heinrich Roll, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, and Uwi Johnson, the poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the film director, Volker Schlondorff, this year's winner of the Cannes Grand Prix for his version of Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, the composers Mauricio Kagel and ARI-BERT REIMANN and the artist Josef Beuys.

(Culture and politics in East Germany: 13 Nov)