Hein, Volker Braun, Ulrich Plenzdorf or Stefan Heym was intermittent and muted. In contrast to literature in nearly all other countries of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe, literature in the GDR was predominantly affirmative. The most notable prose works and plays by Christa Wolf and Heiner Muller were admittedly far removed from party allegiance and faith in socialism - at least from the mid-1970s onward - but their models of a different society nevertheless essentially remained deeply rooted in the idea of socialism..