Censorship systems in comparison: Brazil and GDR

Dissertation

• worked out by Henrique Bordini
• Cohort 1 (since 2022)

Censorship systems in comparison: Brazil and GDR

Henrique’s project aims to assert a link between Brazil and Germany through a comparative analysis of the bureaucratic structure of censorship in the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the GDR. By comparing the books Zero, by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, and Rummelplatz, by Werner Bräunig and their respective censorship reports/justifications by the bureaucratic offices responsible for repression, the aim is to identify similarities in the censorship structure in both countries. The accompanying readings of uncensored works that are equally critical of the regimes, such as Sargento Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro and Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel, are intended to deepen the understanding of the relationship between censorship and the public sphere.