Abstract:
This article introduces a research project on the relationship between literature and
the mechanisms of foreign cultural policy in the context of Polish-German relations.
Based on an analysis of records from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Afairs in Bonn from
1960 to 1970, Zajas asks how the political milieu at the time deined the function of
culture. He juxtaposes the activities of government institutions with the perspective
of agents in the literary ield. For this group, data was obtained from the archive of the
German publisher Siegfried Unseld, housed at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach,
which was made available to researchers in 2009. This archive contains records from
publishers such as Suhrkamp Verlag and Insel Verlag. The metatheoretical framework
chosen to position the problem of foreign cultural policy within the realm of literary
studies is the polycontextual framework proposed by Gerhard Plumpe and Niels Werber
