Loest had been campaigning against censorship and by the end of the 1970s was subject to a sustained programme of persecution by the authorities .
He had recently undertaken a joint project for GEO with the novelist Erich Loest .
Erich Loest had been campaigning against censorship and by the end of the 1970s was subject to a sustained programme of persecution by the authorities .
He had recently undertaken a joint project for GEO with the novelist Erich Loest .