This fictionalized account of an encounter in 1804 between the poet Karoline von Gunderrode and writer Heinrich von Kleist is pieced together from extracts of actual letters. In real life…

This study focuses on the writings of Christa Wolf, one of East Germany’s most prominent and controversial authors. Offering original and provocative readings of Wolf’s most significant literary and essayistic…

Addresses arguably the most important German writer in the period of since World War II until her death in 2011. Scholars across the U.S. and Europe address both the importance…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universitat Augsburg (Lehrstuhl fur Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Medearezeptionen von der Antike…

Auch die Essays, Vortrage, Reden, Interviews und Tagebucher sowie die Briefwechsel werden vorgestellt, ausserdem die Kontexte von Wolfs Schaffen, die deutsch-deutsche und die internationale Rezeption.

Illuminates how selected great works of literature arose, leading to deepened understanding of the works and harking back to what we still call the humanities.

Originally published under title: Ein Tag im Jahr im neuen Jahrhundert 2001-2011. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2013.

Ghosts have made an unexpected reappearance in German literature since 1989. Catherine Smale reads this as symptomatic of writers’ attempts to renegotiate their personal and collective identity in the wake…