Tag: literature
Literature: Writer Maryse Condé dies
literature Writer Maryse Condé dies Maryse Condé 2018 after the awarding of the Alternative Nobel Prize on the video wall in the Stockholm City Library. photo © Janerik Henriksson//TT NEWS…
On the death of Maryse Condé – Culture
Maryse Condé only became known to us relatively late: when her extremely successful novel “Segou” was published in German, she had already been well known internationally for a long time.…
Christoph Ransmayr’s stories: “When I was still immortal” – Culture
Christoph Ransmayr’s greatness lies in a narrative that doesn’t allow itself any weaknesses and doesn’t shy away from pathos. Stories from four decades reveal his cosmos. The Ransmayr tone unmistakably…
Fang Fang’s novel “Shining View”: Once upon a time in Wuhan – Culture
In China, Fang Fang’s books are suppressed, especially her famous Covid diary. Now her strong, tender family novel “Shining View” is finally being published in German. Little Eighth is the…
Munich: The new series “Lost in Music” combines literature, music and party. – Munich
There is the theory that music and poetry have the same origin. Since the Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan, it has also been proven that a song lyric can be…
Ilona Hartmann’s novel “Klarkommen” is guaranteed to help against Fomo. – Culture
One thing is guaranteed to help against the nagging fear of missing out on life: Ilona Hartmann’s second novel “Klarkommen”. Being young can feel like you have to live until…
German-Israeli correspondence between Ofer Waldman and Sasha Marianna – Culture
Sasha Marianna Salzmann, born in Volgograd in 1985, and Ofer Waldman, born in Jerusalem in 1979, met a few years ago in the Jewish Museum Berlin. Salzmann has lived in…
Favorites of the week: Let’s talk about something great – culture
The Japanese art of coping with existence, a feminist appeal and Wagner’s “Holländer” as a cheerful ship of fools – the recommendations from the SZ feature section for the Easter…
Football non-fiction: Ronald Reng about 1974 and the most important football game in history. – Culture
In retrospect, certain football games actually seem to have been more than football games. Germany’s final victory in the 1954 World Cup, for example, is described by fans of exaggeration…
Literature: Shimmering waiting
Julien Green’s 1932 novel “Flotsam” tells of the downfall of a bourgeois world and repressed homosexuality. Now it appears in a new translation. source site