Tag: Erich Kaestner
Why can streets only be named after heroes? – Culture
There is a lot of discussion right now about the morals of people from the past. And because a clear conclusion (thumbs down) is usually reached surprisingly quickly in these…
Wolf Haas receives the Erich Kästner Prize for Literature – Munich
Put a stop to beer seriousness. Wolf Haas likes this formulation. At the awarding of the Erich Kästner Prize for Literature on Friday evening in the International Youth Book Library…
Exhibition on Walter Trier in Munich: Walk-in worlds of images
For the first time in many years, an exhibition in the International Youth Library is showing 60 original illustrations by Walter Trier for the classic children’s books by Erich Kästner.…
Kästner anniversary: Munich reading by Norbert Wollschläger – Munich
Erich Kästner and Kurt Tucholsky are on vacation – and coincidentally in the same Swiss hotel. The two grand masters of polished words both stayed in a luxury hotel on…
Erich Kästner – an overview of the anniversary year – Munich
The writer was born 125 years ago and died 50 years ago. On the occasion of the big anniversary year, the International Youth Library, theater and new books commemorate the…
Erich Kästners "Fabian" at the Munich Volkstheater: When the present looks old
At the Volkstheater, Philipp Arnold cleverly places Erich Kästner’s urban novel “Fabian or: Going to the Dogs” in today’s times. What remains at the end is a frightening realization. source…
Munich Volkstheater: When the present looks old
This is how it works: Philipp Arnold cleverly places Erich Kästner’s urban novel “Fabian or: Going to the Dogs” in today’s times at the Munich Volkstheater. source site
Wolf Haas receives Erich Kästner Prize for Literature – Munich
“Nothing like writing, writing, writing.” This is the credo for his most recent work, “Property,” which also serves as a credo for his life. Although Wolf Haas is not a…
Highly political: Readings about Erich Kästner and Uwe Neumahr – Munich
Motorway Munich-Nuremberg, November 1945. Erich Kästner drives to the opening of the war crimes trials in Nuremberg. “The crows are crouching in the bare, dead fields,” he writes. And a…
Texts by Erich Kästner: “Resignation is not a point of view” – culture
Of the then younger authors of the Weimar Republic, who were granted something like posthumous fame, Erich Kästner is by far the most popular today. His name and his books…