Etiket: literature
Frankfurt Book Fair 2021: The program at a glance – Culture
Migration, loneliness, memory: this is the motto of the Süddeutsche Zeitung at the Frankfurt Book Fair – follow the live stream here. the Southgerman newspaper is holding author talks at…
Jordan Scotts / Sydney Smith: “I’m like the river” – culture
Canadian poet Jordan Scott’s childhood was overshadowed by his struggle against stuttering. He could not have found a better illustrator for his moving complaint than his compatriot Sydney Smith. Even…
The audio book for the youth novel “Things that can’t stay like this”. – Culture
Jens Wawrczeck, who has already recorded the well-known “Ismael Trilogy” by the Australian children’s and youth author Michael Gerard Bauer for the Hamburg audio company, also reads his latest book…
Frauke Scheuermann’s story about a girl group. – Culture
A gripping agent story in which the narrator experiences how the band rehearsal suddenly turns into a dangerous thriller “T like Tessa – suddenly a secret agent” is a book…
Cardboard picture books by Katja Reider, Henrike Wilson and Marianne Dubuc – culture
Open detailed view You don’t find original and age-appropriate cardboard picture books that often, but these two new releases convince and inspire right away! Henrike Wilson, known for her unusually…
Veronica Cossanteli: In the small, wild Schnergenland. – Culture
The publisher advertises with the information that the children’s book classic “The Marvelous Land of Snergs” by EA Wyke-Smith from 1927 is – according to Tolkien’s own admission – the…
Michael Köhlmeier’s novel “Matou” – Culture
Cats are good. They do not have complex responsibilities like humans, they are not condemned to a crawlingly dependent existence like the dog, they do not have to fight for…
“Language in the Technical Age” – Culture
Journal notes – that could be the piece of paper on which Uwe Johnson converted Günter Grass’s head circumference into inches in the early 1970s in order to buy a…
Jasmina Kuhnke, Twitter name Quattromilf, and her book “Black Heart” – Culture
First some information about the author of this book. Jasmina Kuhnke, born in 1982 in Hagen, works as an author and activist. As the latter, she communicates a lot on…
Peter-André Alt’s book “Excellent !? On the situation of the German university ”- Culture
Education, if it is to be useful, is a matter of organization. The committee for questions of university reform, which met in the summer of 1952 at the suggestion of…
From wild waters – Bavaria
Anton Kirchmair grew up directly on the Isar. In his childhood in the 1950s, the river was his playground, the artist recalls. At that time, the adults would have instructed…
“Bergseele” travel book: On foot across the Alps – travel
The wrong time of day, the wrong weather – Miriam Mayer repeatedly struggles with the circumstances. As a photographer, she simply wants optimal conditions. But not having this, that is…
Jasmina Kuhnke and the Frankfurt Book Fair – Culture
from Marie Schmidt The news was just that this week visitors could actually be at the Frankfurt Book Fair again, after it had to be moved to live streams in…
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: “A space limited by shadows”. Review. – Culture
Nobody tells so freely, so full of feelings and stories from the great times of the theater, except Emine Sevgi Özdamar. After a long silence, her fourth novel is now…
Memories: At Daos “The city gate opens”. Review. – Culture
It is an evening in late July in the summer of 1989. Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered on Munich’s Theresienwiese to send a message against the crackdown on the protest…
Beginning of the week of the book fair: The presentation of the German Book Prize. – Culture
Every art has its own scene. The cinema has its cineastes, the theater its audience, the museum its visitors. And what does literature have? Of course, the book has its…
Clemens Meyer’s book “Dusts”. Review. – Culture
There are times when it is necessary to say the obvious. Clemens Meyer does this between two brackets. It doesn’t matter to him at all whether an author is a…
On the right of the Isar: Judith Brauneis prepares corpses – Munich
What happens in the body after a person dies? Judith Brauneis has been fascinated by death since she was a small child, and today she works as a taxidermist. A…
Michael Morpurgo’s new book: “The lighthouse keeper and me”. – Culture
ands are often the setting for stories by the well-known English author Michael Morpurgo. Because of the Gulf Stream, there is a mild, almost subtropical climate, but the islands are…
Klaus Kordon’s new book: “And everything is new in May”. – Culture
Klaus Kordon has already dealt with the time after the Second World War in his great historical oeuvre. In the “Trilogy of the Wendezeit”, which shows the life of a…