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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GLM VII was an excellent month in which many authors and titles made their debut appearance on #germanlitmonth.  Thank you to the 30 participating bloggers from around the globe for making this such a special event.

Drama
Bernhard: Heldenplatz 1 Kehlmann: The Mentor 1

Features
Author Profile: Larissa Boehning 1
Six Degrees of Separation: From Less than Zero to The Inspector Barlach Mysteries 1 German Historians of the C18th and C19th 1
Random Book Covers and Illustrations: Gerstäcker 1 Schiller 1

Fiction
Abonji: Fly Away, Pigeon 1 Ani: The Nameless Day 1 Arnim-Brentano: Goethe’s Correspondence with A Child 1 Bachmann: Malina 1 Bernhard: Three Days 1 Boehning: Swallow Summer 1 Böll: The Clown 1  Brentano: Fairy Tales / The Story of Brave Caspar and the Fair Annerl 1 Camenisch: The Alp 1 Behind the Station 1 Christ: Memoirs of A Superfluous Woman 1 Clavadetscher: Knochenlieder 1 Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz 1 Drvenkar: Sorry 1 2 Ende: The Night of Wishes 1 Erpenbeck: Go, Went, Gone 1 Tand 1 Wolf amongst Wolves 1 Feuchtwanger: The Oppermanns 1 Fontane: Effi Briest 1 Frisch: Zurich Transit 1 Fühmann: The Jew Car 1    Gaponenko: Who is Martha? 1 Geltinger: Moor 1 Goethe: Elective Affinities 1 Goetz: Insane 1 Grasnojwa: The Legal Haziness of A Marriage 1 Haffner: Blood Brothers 1  Hansen: This House is Mine 1 Hebel: How A Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher’s Dog 1 The Treasure Chest 1 Heinrich: Cross of Iron 1 Helle: Euphoria 1  Hensel: Dance by The Canal 1 Hesse: Demian 1 Hilbig: A Temporary State 1 Hofmann: Parable of the Blind 1 Hoppe: Pigaletta 1 Huch: The Last Summer 1 Jelinek: In the Alps 1 The Piano Teacher 1  Jonke: The System of Vienna 1 Jünger: The Glass Bees 1 Kafka: Investigations of a Dog 1 Kehlmann: You Should Have Left 1 Keller: Stories 1 Keun: After Midnight 1 The Artificial Silk Girl 1 Kleist: An Earthquake in Chile 1 Kracht: Imperium - A Fiction of the South Seas 1 Kurbjuweit: Fear 1 Lehn: Aladdin, COB 1 Lernet-Holenia: Mona Lisa 1 Lewitscharroff: Apostoloff 1 Blumenberg 1 Mann: Buddenbrooks: A Literary Conversation 1 2 3 4 Markovíc: Superheldinnen (Superheroines) 1 Meier: Isle of the Dead 1 Meile: 3000€ 1 Perutz: Master of the Day of Judgment 1 Rammstedt: The King of China 1 Roth: Confessions of A Murderer 1 Ruge: In Times of Fading Light 1 Schnitzler: Casanova’s Homecoming 1 Late Fame 1 2 Night Games 1 Sebald: Austerlitz 1 The Description of Unhappiness 1 The Emigrants 1 The Rings of Saturn 1 Vertigo 1  Seethaler: The Tobacconist 1 Seiler: Kruso 1 Speck: Bella Germania 1 Stamm: Seven Years 1 Storm: Grieshuus 1 Suter: Allen and the Dragonflies 1 The Last Weynfeldt 1 Tawada : Memoirs of  Polar Bear 1 2  Urzidil: Borderlands 1 Siegelmann’s Journey 1 The Duchess of Alahambra 1 The Last Bell 1 Wagener: You’d Have Larvae Too 1 Wagner: Ice Moon 1 Wander: The Seventh Well 1 Wassermann: Kaspar Hauser - Inertia of the Heart 1 Wolf: August 1 The Quest for Christa T 1 Zeh: Eagles and Angels 1   Zehrer: Das Genie 1 Zweig: Compulsion 1 Journey into the Past 1 The Post-Office Girl 1 Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of A Woman and other stories 1

Non-fiction
Adam: Lesen unter Hitler 1  Byung-Chul: The Burn-Out Society 1 Enzensberger: Tumult 1  Ribbat: In the Restaurant 1 2 3 Zweig: Genius and Discovery 1 Triumph and Disaster 1

The Non-Fiction Exception to the German Language Rule
Beachy: Gay Berlin - Birthplace of A New Identity 1

Poetry
Gomringer: Moden 1

The Watch-As-You-Please GLM Fringe
Line of Separation 1 The Weissensee Saga 1

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German Literature Month VI: Author Index

Bachmann: Malina 1 Benjamin: The Task of the Translator 1 Berlin: Banking on A Wedding 1 Bernhard: Wittgenstein's Nephew 1  2 Bräunig: Rummelplatz 1 Canetti: The Tongue Set Free 1 Capus: Almost Like Spring 1 De La Motte-Fouqué: Undine 1 de Velasco: Tiger Milk 1 Döblin: The Ballerina and The Body 1 Dürrenmatt: The Inspector Barlach Mysteries 1 Erpenbeck: Katzen Haben Sieben Leben/Schmutzige Nacht 1 Fallada: Alone in Berlin 1 A Small Circus 1 Fitzek: Amok1 Fontane: Beyond The Tweed 1 Effi Briest 1 Shorter Novels 1 2 Funke: Inkheart 1 Georg : Poems 1 Giordano: Auntie Poldi and The Sicilian Lions 1 Glauser: Thumbprint 1 Glavinic: The Camera Kille 1 Gmeyner: Manja 1 Goethe: Italian Journey 1 2 3 Italian Journey Fictitious Part 4 Gotthelf: The Black Spider 1 Grajsnowa: All Russians Love Birch Trees 1 Grass: From Germany to Germany 1 Grimm Hans Herbert: Schlump1 2 Groner: The Case of the Golden Bullet 1 Hahn: Shorter Days 1 Hermann: Letti Park 1 Hesse: The Glass Bead Game 1 Narcissus and Goldmund 1 Rosshalde 1 Hoffmann: The Sandman 1Hofmann: The Film Explainer 1 Hofmannsthal Electra 1 Der Rosenkavalier 1 Hotschig: Ludwig's Room 1 Jelinek: Greed 1 The Piano Teacher 1 2 Women As Lovers 1 Jung: Bambert's Book of Missing Stories / Dreaming in Black and White 1 Jungk: The Snowflake Constant 1 Kafka: Short Fiction and Short Stories 1 The Metamorphosis 1 Kempowski: All for Nothing 1 Keun: After Midnight 1 Kim: Invasionem des Privaten 1 Klönne: Silent is the Forest 1 Klüssendorf: Das Mädchen 1 Kluge: Dispatches from Moments of Calm 1 Köstering: Goethesturm 1 Krausser: The Great Bagarozy 1 Krechel: Shanghai Fern von Wo 1 Mann Thomas: Doctor Faustus 1 Fiorenza 1 Royal Highness 1 Mörike: Mozart's Journey to Prague 1 Montasser: A Very Special Year 1 Müller: The Appointment 1 Musil: The Confessions of Young Torless 1 Nestroy: Einen Jux will er sich machen (Adapted by Tom Stoppard) 1 Poznanski: Five 1 2 3 Preussler: The Little Witch / The Robber Hotzenplotz 1 Reich-Osang: The Scholl Case 1 Roth: The Radetsky March 1 The String of Pearls 1 Schmidt: Bottom's Dream 1 2 Sebald: The Emigrants 1 2 Vertigo 1 2 Seethaler: The Tobacconist 1 2 3 4 Seghers: Crossing A Love Story 1 The Seventh Cross 1 Transit 1 Stamm: Black Ice 1 Unformed Landscape 1 Stift: The Empress and The Cake 1 2 3 Suter: The Chef 1  The Last Weynfeldt 1 Timm: In My Brother's Shadow 1 Ullmann: The Country Road 1 Vanderbeke: The Mussel Feast 1 Wedekind: Lulu Plays 1 Mine-Haha 1 Wolf: Medea 1 They Divided the Sky 1 Zweig: A Game of Chess 1 2 A Summer Novella 1 Amok 1  Buchmendel/The Invisible Collection (Review in German) 1 Confusion 1 Burning Secret 1 Did He Do It? 1 2 The Invisible Collection 1 Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of A Woman 1 2

Features
Alison Layland on Literary Translation 1
Crime Fiction in German (Sample Chapter) 1

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