Tag: literature
Munich: Comic reporter Joe Sacco as a guest at the book show. – Munich
He wanted to get away from the war, from violence and no more drawing Kalashnikovs. And at least the last one was spared Joe Sacco in Canada. However, the Maltese-American…
Lukas Bärfuss’ essay “Father’s Box”. Review. – Culture
That sounds almost cosy: “Father’s box”. Almost like wanting to Lukas Bärfuss, notorious discourse provocateur from Switzerlandjoin the many writers of his generation who, in recent years and decades, have…
Hanns-Josef Ortheil: He will not watch the World Cup in Qatar – society
It’s the 14th minute of Wuppertaler SV’s game against Rot-Weiss Oberhausen. The autumn sky shimmers dull, the air is cool and clear, the suspension railway rattles in the distance. A…
Benzema forfeited, the rest is literature… The (dirty) newspaper of the Blues
From our Special Envoy in Doha, It hasn’t even been a week since we arrived in Doha, and even less time since the Journal des Bleus made its big comeback…
Wolfgang Borchert: The master of rubble literature
Master of the short story Nobody described the rubble Germany as he did – Wolfgang Borchert died 75 years ago Wolfgang Borchert was born 100 years ago, on May 20,…
The letters of Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch – Culture
At dawn on July 3rd and 4th, 1958, between bloody butchers’ aprons in the old market halls in Paris, a story began that has kept science in suspense to this…
Correspondence Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch: A long struggle
Ahead of their time: the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch was only possible because Bachmann insisted on leading a self-determined life. source site
Letters Ingeborg Bachmann Max Frisch: But not a vengeful tyrant – culture
The image of Max Frisch that the Bachmann community has maintained for decades needs to be corrected. My “Biography in Fragments” about Ingeborg Bachmann was published five years ago –…
Joan Didion Estate Brings in More Than Expected – Culture
The estate of US author Joan Didion, who died in December at the age of 87, has been auctioned – and met with much greater interest than expected. One of…
Comic novel “Trip mit Tropf”: Happy to cry – culture
How many animals with human, all too human characteristics are there in the course of a critic’s life – oh, what am I saying: a human life! – crossed paths?…