In this article, I analyse Ulrich Plenzdorf’s novel kein runter kein fern, an often-overlooked text critiquing the society of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the late 1970s that focuses primarily on the theme of disability. Plenzdorf’s protagonist, a boy with a mild learning disability, is pressured to develop a masculine body to overcome his mental handicap. Analysing the story from a perspective based on Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies and Julia Hell’s Post-Fascist Fantasies, I argue that Plenzdorf is showing the GDR as a militarized, masculine society, unable to deal with disability in a humane manner. His protagonist therefore has no other choice but to cope with his disability by becoming what he calls a ‘panzermann’, that means a man whose feelings are cut off with a tank-like body. Furthermore, by drawing on a rich collection of archival materials, I show how Plenzdorf’s depiction of disability, masculinity, and GDR society caused a major literary scandal, and how he radicalized these topics in later adaptations. Reviewing this material that has not been published before, I argue that Plenzdorf widened his criticism during the Wende years and transformed his criticism of the GDR society to a criticism of the German society as a whole.

在本文中，我分析了 Ulrich Plenzdorf 的小说kein runter kein fern，这是一篇经常被忽视的批评 1970 年代后期德意志民主共和国 (GDR) 社会的文本，主要关注残疾主题。Plenzdorf 的主人公是一个有轻度学习障碍的男孩，他被迫培养男性身体来克服他的精神障碍。从克劳斯·特韦莱特的男性幻想和朱莉娅·赫尔的后法西斯幻想的角度分析故事，我认为普伦茨多夫将东德展示为一个军事化的男性社会，无法以人道的方式处理残疾问题。因此，他的主角别无选择，只能通过成为他所谓的“装甲兵”来应对自己的残疾，这意味着一个感情被坦克般的身体切断的人。此外，通过收集丰富的档案材料，我展示了普伦茨多夫对残疾、男子气概和东德社会的描述如何引起了重大的文学丑闻，以及他如何在后来的改编中激化了这些主题。回顾这份以前没有发表过的材料，我认为普伦茨多夫在文德时代扩大了他的批评范围，并将他对东德社会的批评转变为对整个德国社会的批评。