''Die Überläuferin'' (English: The Defector) is a 1986 German-language novel by

Monika Maron Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. Biography She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre ...

. In this, her second novel, the author questions the status of the individual in

GDR East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

society, making a critique of the state's ideological system. The heroine struggles with the oppressing social norms of society and its male-dominated, supposedly scientific, spirit.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Defector (Maron novel), The 1986 novels Novels by Monika Maron