German Literature Month XI

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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)

German Literature Month X

 

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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

German Literature Month IX (November 2019)

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German Literature Month VIII Author Index

Exclusive New Translation
Keyserling Sultry Days

Features
Anthea Bell, Doyenne of German Crime Fiction 1
Biographies Erika Mann 1 Sophie Scholl 1 Birgit Vanderbeke 1 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 1
How to read Kafka 1 2 3
Meet The Translator Rachel Hildebrandt 1 Ruth Martin 1 Helen Wallimann 1

Fiction
Améry Charles Bovary, Country Doctor 1 Ani The Nameless Day 1 2 Anonymous The Niebelungenlied 1 Bernhard The Loser 1 Böll The End of A Mission 1 Brecht Threepenny Novel 1 Buchholz Blue Night 1 2 Elsberg Zero 1 Enzensberger Where Were You, Robert? 1 Fallada Once A Jailbird 1 The Drinker 1 Funke Inkheart 1 Goethe Elective Affinities 1 Iphigenia on Tauris 1 Gläser The Book Jumper 1 2 Glauser The Spoke 1 Groeger The Niebelung Saga 1 Hensel Dance By The Canal 1 Herrndorf Sand 1 Hesse Siddhartha 1 Hilbig The Females 1 The Tiding of the Trees 1 Johnson Anniversaries 1 2 Kafka America 1 Kempowski All For Nothing 1 Keun After Midnight 1 Kinsky River 1 Kracht Imperium 1 The Dead 1 Kröger Collision 1 Loschütz Ein Schönes Paar 1 Mann Thomas Doctor Faustus 1 Menasse Quasikristalle 1 Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 1 Roth The Emperor's Tomb 1 2 3 Schmitter Mrs Sartoris 1 Sebald Austerlitz 1 Simon Zbinden's Progress 1 Stamm The Mild Indifference of the World 1 Stifter Tales of Old Vienna 1 Storm Grieshuus 1 The Rider On The White Horse 1 Suter Elephant 1 The Dark Side of the Moon 1 Tawada Memoirs of A Polar Bear 1 Vanderbeke The Mussel Feast 1 von Büren A Long Blue Monday 1 2 Winkler Natura Morta 1 Wolf In The Flesh 1 Zweig Beware of Pity 1 Chess Story 1 2 The Collected Novellas 1 The Collected Stories 1

Graphic Works
Bernhard, Illustrated by Nicholas Mahler Old Masters 1 Krug Heimat 1

Non-Fiction
Benjamin Illuminations 1 2 3 The Storyteller 1 de Padova Alone Against Gravity 1 Erpenbeck Not A Novel 1 Scholl The White Rose 1 Stach Kafka Vols 1-3 1 Wendt Erika and Therese 1 Weidermann Dreamers 1

Poetry
von Droste-Hülshoff Five Poems 1

Rule Breakers
Mickey 3D The White Rose 1 (French song inspired by Sophie Scholl)
Uhlman Reunion 1 (Book written in English by a German speaker)

German Literature Month VIII

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