1959年4月,德国作家协会在德意志民主共和国的新工业区——化学工业中心毕特费尔德——召开了一次会议。这次会议不在柏林、来比锡或者德累斯登这些文化中心召开,而到毕特费尔德,并且是在国营电气化学联合工厂的大礼堂里举行,是不同往常的。不但地点不同往常,连会议的参加者也不同往常,四百多位代表,作家、艺术家只占一半,还有一半是社会主义生产队的工人、从事业余写作的劳动者和工厂的文化工作者。作家艺术家们到工业区来, In April 1959, the German Writers’ Association held a meeting in Bitterfeld, the new industrial area of ​​the German Democratic Republic - Chemical Industry Center. It is not usual for this meeting to take place in the cultural centers of Berlin, Leipzig or Dresden, to Bitterfeld, and to be held in the auditorium of the state electrochemistry complex. Not only the locations are different, but the participants in the conference are different from usual. More than 400 delegates, writers and artists account for only half of them. Half are workers of the socialist production team, laborers engaged in amateur writing and factory cultural workers . Writers and artists come to industrial areas,