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Thursday, 27 October 2022
German Literature Month XII
German Literature Month XI Author Index
If I’m counting correctly, there were 112 contributions to GLM XI. Well done, team!
Features
Around The World in German Literature 1
Keeping Up With The Magic Mountain of German Literature 1
Meet the blogger, translator and publisher: James J Conway 1
The 2021 #germanlitmonth non-fiction TBR 1
Fiction
Anthology of 17 short stories 1
Baum Love and Death in Bali 1 Bernhard Concrete 1 Berthold Eagles of The Reich 1 Bogdan The Peacock 1 Böll The Train Was OnTime 1 2 Women in A River Landscape 1 Boschwitz The Passenger 1 2 3 Bronsky Barbara stirbt nicht 1 Dürrenmatt From The Papers of A Prison Guard 1 The Execution of Justice 1 The Quarry (Suspicion) 1 The Visit 1 Edelbauer The Fluid Land 1 Edschmid Levy’s Testament 1 Eichendorff Memoirs of A Good For Nothing 1 Fallada Nightmare in Berlin 1 Why Do You Wear A Cheap Watch? 1 Fischer Ich hasse Menschen 1 Fitzek Splinter 1 Fricke Daughters 1 Glauser The Spoke 1 Handke The Goalkeeper’s Anxiety at The Penalty Kick 1 The Left-Handed Woman 1 Haushofer We Kill Stella 1 Hesse Demian 1 Hilbig I 1 The Interim 1 Hofmann Luck 1 Holz/Schlaf Papa Hamlet 1 Kafka Investigations of A Dog / Report to the Academy 1 Kehlmann Measuring The World 1 Kempowski All for Nothing 1 Keun After Midnight 1 Child of All Nations 1 2 The Artificial Silk Girl 1 Keyserling On Southern Slopes (Excerpt 1) (Review 1) Kleist Anecdotes 1 Kluge Dispatches from Moments of Calm 1 Koeppen Pigeons on The Grass 1 2 Kutscher Babylon Berlin 1 Lendle All the Land 1 Lernet-Morenia Baron Bagge 1 I Was Jack Mortimer 1 Lucadou The High-Rise Diver 1 Lüscher Barbarian Spring 1 Kraft 1 Marly The Diva 1 Mayröcker Etudes 1 Noll The Pharmacist 1 Olsberg Boy In A White Room 1 Otoo Adas Raum 1 Pötzsch The Hangman’s Daughter 1 Raabe The Stranger Upstairs 1 Ransmayr The Lost World 1 Remarque A Night in Lisbon 1 Roth Confession of A Murderer 1 2 Rothmann To Die In Spring 1 Salzmann Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein 1 Schätzing The Swarm 1 Schalansky An Inventory of Losses 1 Schenkel The Murder Farm 1 Schrott The Desert of Lop 1 Seethaler A Whole Life 1 2 The Tobacconist 1 2 Schirach The Girl Who Wasn’t There 1 2 Schlink The Woman on the Stairs 1 Schmidt It’s Over, Don’t Go There 1 Schneider The Basel Killings 1 Schnitzler Casanova’s Homecoming 1 Storm A Doppelgänger 1 Carsten The Trustee 1 Immensee 1 The Dykemaster 1 Seethaler The Tobacconist 1 Süsskind The Pigeon 1 Suter The Last Weynfeldt 1 Stifter Motley Stones 1 Walser The Assistant 1 2 Wedekind The Seducer 1 The Vaccination 1 Zeh New Year 1 2 3 Zweig Chess Story 1 Fear 1 The Buried Candelabrum 1
Film
Lommbock 1
Non-Fiction
Krasavice Die Bitch Bibel 1 Lebert My Father’s Keeper 1 Schwarzenbach All The Roads are Open 1 Sebald Unheimliche Heimat 1 Walser The Assistant 1 Wolf From A Different Perspective 1 One Day A Year 1
Rule Breakers
Volckmer The Appointment 1 Weiss My Berlin Kitchen 1
Saturday, 23 October 2021
German Literature Month XI
Here we go. The second decade begins!
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German Literature Month X Author Index
Drama
Brecht: Mother Courage and Galileo Galilei (1)
Exclusive New Translation
Ricarda Huch: Fra Celeste
Features
Author Features: Ebner-Eschenbach (1) Haushofer (1) (2) Lazar (1)
Lizzy’s German Scrapbook: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia
German Romanticism (1)
Meet the Translators: Charlotte Collins, Shelley Frisch
Novellas in November (1)
Fiction
Annas: The Wall (1) Bachmann: Simultan (1) Bossong: Gramsci’s Fall (1) Brückner: Desdemona, If Only You Had Spoken! (1) De La Motte-Fouqué: Undine (1) Ebner-Eschenbach: Krambambuli (1) Erpenbeck: The End of Days (1) Faes: Twelve Nights (1) Fallada: Why Do You Wear A Cheap Watch? (1) Fricke: Daughters (1) (2) Frisch: Montauk (1) Fritsch: Herzklappen von Johnson & Johnson (1) Fühmann: The Jew Car (1) Gotthelf: The Black Spider (1) Grimm: Three Fairy Tales (1) Gunderöde: Into The Great Beyond (1) Handke: The Goalkeeper’s Anxiety at The Penalty Kick (1) Hofmann: Veilchenfeld (1) Hesse: Steppenwolf (1) Johnson: Two Views (1) (2) Kästner: Going to the Dogs (1) Kessler: The Ghosts of Demmin (1) Kehlmann: You Should Have Left (1) Helfer: Die Bagage (1) Huch: The Last Summer (1) Kettenbach: Black Ice (1) Keyserling: Waves (1) Koeppen: A Sad Affair (1) La Roche: The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim (1) (2) Lazar: The Poisoning (1) Lernet-Holenia: Count Luna (1) Lenz: Stella (1) The Turncoat (1) (2) Mann Heinrich: The Loyal Subject (1) Mann Thomas: Death in Venice (1) Young Joseph (1) Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1) Roth: Hotel Savoy (1) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1) Sacher-Masoch: Bloody Wedding in Kyiv (1) Schmidt: Bottom’s Dream (1) Schnitzler: Late Fame (1) Sebald: The Emigrants (1) Storm: Grieshuus (1) Süskind: The Pigeon (1) Tawada: Accent Free (1) Timm: In My Brother’s Shadow (1) Walser: Heibling’s Story (1) Winkler: When The Times Comes (1) Wolf: Summer Play (1) The Quest for Christa T (1) Zweig: Chess (1) Forgotten Dreams (1) In the Snow (1)
Non-Fiction
Deutschkron: Outcast - A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin (1) Gleichauf: Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch (1) Goldenberg: I Belong to Vienna (1) Kluge: Air Raid (1) Nenik: Journey Through A Tragi-Comic Century (1) Oppenheim: Memoirs of a German-Jewish Painter (1) Ritter: A Woman In The Polar Night (1) Seelig: Walks with Walser (1) Zweig: Montaigne (1)
Poetry
Favourite German Poems (1) Grünbein: Porcelain (1)
Rule Breakers (Not originally written in German)
Fletcher: How To Be German (1) Marks: Joseph Roth: A Search for the Wandering Jew (1) Uhlman: Reunion (1)
TV and Film
The Weissensee Saga (1)
Friday, 25 September 2020
German Literature Month X
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
German Literature Month IX Author Index
Berlin Alexanderplatz Readalong
General review: 1 2
Chapters 1-2: 1 2 3 4 5
Chapters 3-5: 1 2 3 4 5
Chapters 6-7: 1 2 3
Chapters 8-9: 1 2 3
Berlin Alexanderplatz and City Literature 1 Comparative City Literature 1
Exclusive New Translation
Keyserling: Experiences of Love
Features
Christa Winsloe Biography 1
Meet The Translator: David Dollenmayer 1
Riveting Germans: 1 2 3
Fiction
A Youtube Gallimaufry of German Literature: Hoffmann - The Sandman, Zweig - Chess Story, von Aue - Eric, Lutz - Einer aus Wiesendorf) 1
Arjouni: Magic Hoffmann 1 Bergengruen: The Hornung Homesickness 1 Bernhard: Concrete 1 Böhler: The Decision 1 Böll: And where were you, Adam? 1 The Bread of Those Early Years 1 Bottini: The Dance of Death 1 Brecht: The Life of Galileo 1 Brunntaler: Wolf 1 Canetti: Crowds and Power 1 Döblin: My Address is Sarreguemines 1Dürrenmatt: The Pledge 1 Eichner: Kahn & Engelmann 1 Fallada: Nightmare in Berlin 1 Franck: Blind Side of The Heart 1 Frisch: An Answer from The Silence 1 2 Fritz: The Weight of Things 1 Handke: The Left-Handed Woman 1Haratischvili: The Eighth Life 1 Herrndorf: Why We Took The Car 1 Hess: The German House 1 2 Jonke - Homage to Czerny 1 Kästner: Emil and The Detectives 1 Keun: The Artificial Silk Girl 1 2 Keyserling: Waves 1 Khayat: We've Long Been Elsewhere 1 Kleist: The Marquise of O 1 Kluge: Air Raid 1 Kutscher: The Silent Death 1 Mann: The Magic Mountain 1 2 3 Parei: The Cold Centre 1 Richter: Distant Signs 1 Seghers: The Seventh Cross 1 2 Transit 1 Stamm: On A day Like This 1 In Strange Gardens 1 Steinhöfel: The Pasta Detectives 1 Stifter: Brigitta 1 2 Tournaline 1 Witiko Book One 1 Book Two 1 Book Three 1 Storm: At University 1 Suter: A Perfect Friend 1 Allmen and The Pink Diamond 1Tawada : Memoirs of A Polar Bear 1 Walser Martin: A Man In Love 1 Walser Robert: The Little Berliner 1 Wells: The End of Loneliness 1 Wolf: Medea 1 The Quest for Christa T 1
Non-Fiction
Leo: Red Love 1 Gersdorff: Goethe's Late Love 1 Moser: Goethe, The Whole Truth 1 Nadolny: The Discovery of Slowness 1 Oskamp: Marzahn Mon Amour- Chiropodist Tales 1 Ritter: A Woman In The Polar Night 1 Schlosser: Little Sparks from Saxony 1
Poetry
Hodjak: Transylvanian Speaking Exercise 1 Roth: Merely Human 1 The Niebelungenlied: 1
The Rule Breakers
Lutes: Berlin - City of Stones 1 Millar: 1989 The Berlin Wall - My Part In Its Downfall
Thursday, 10 October 2019
German Literature Month IX (November 2019)
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