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In Workshops kann man selbst hochwertige Alltagsdinge herstellen, z. Finissage am So Komponierte Stillleben und farbintensive Landschaften zeigen den stilistischen Wandel von klassischer Malkunst zur expressionistischen Strenge. Objekte im Raum, Malerei, Medien. Das Werk des am So um Sie stehen sucht Do Do - Fr Also reHasnain Kazim hat sich nicht den wird. Doch anstatt die Wut- Stellt sich seinen Gegnern: Er antwortet seinen Thema sehr ernst ist: Und der muss nun aufhorchen.
Wer kennt die schon? Irgendwann interessiert es auch nicht mehr. Jonny Rieder Leon de Winter: Wolf Nora Krug Heimat. Ein Buchstabenfernfahrer mit ei Penguin Heimat? Und betreibt Feld- im Volkstheater. Greenblatt Da gab es einen Onkel. Und mit desEva anfangen? Spinnst sen Hilfe Anfang der er eine Fahrschule du! Kann es sein, dass Willi links war, sich — ehrlich. Ein fulminanter Es- Wissenschaftskrimi. Und dass eine Geschichte say. Dort wurde beim Wolf Haas. Die Men- zu bepinseln?
Hirnfutter ist wie Magenfutter. Kirchweih- und Martinsganserl, Wild, Schwammerl, Kirtanudeln u. Oder eine Radlpause einlegen wie z. Eine liebenswerte Mischung aus Bauernhof, Gastwirtschaft und Erlebnisterrain. Alle Produkte im Bioladen oder online. Der Schweinekrustenbraten wird sogar noch im alten Wamslerofen auf dem Holzfeuer langsam gegart.
Ebike-Strecken und ein vielseitiges Gastroangebot. CraftBeer — hipper Slogan, uraltes Prozedere! Das Sagen in der kleinen Privatbrauerei und im Gasthof mit herrlichem Biergarten haben zwei Schwestern, beide echte Braumeisterinnen. Ebenfalls eine Einheimische die Burghauser Brauwerk- drauf. Ob das wohl an der Beschallung mit statt, die seit vieles in Sachen regionale klassischer Musik liegt wirklich! Das Bierige Wochenende inkl. Immer donnerstags ab Das klostereigene Bier wird nach wie vor nach dem Origninalrezept gebraut und neben den Familienbetrie-.
Exklusiv bei den Staffelsee-Wirten: Live erleben kann man diesen www. Es wird wieder spannend bei der sieben Euro. Martin fer in die Saiten gegriffen. So kostet der Tagestrip nach z. Und hier hat mal jemand richtig mitgedacht: Die Routen verlaufen immer. Blauer Reiter, Blaues Land! Hier liegt er geradezu in der Luft, der zarte Dunst von Kunst.
Und auch nur hier rund um Murnau kann man dieser originellen Idee eine Chance geben: Die Kunstwirte — ein einzigartiges Konzept, das heuer zum zweiten Mal realisiert wurde. Schlossgut Oberambach — Starnberger See: Erst zum Kunstwirte-Fest Interessant auch die www. Auch im gungszentrum Murnau. Karten online bestellen auch als Geschenkgutschein.
Alle Termine, Infos und ten aus eigener Ernte. Er setzt sich auf experimentelle Art mit Kommunikationsfragen auseinander. Im Anschluss an den Workshop kann eine Intensivwoche gebucht werden. Vier-SterneKomfort und ein berauschender Ausblick auf die so typischen Gesteinsformationen von allen Zimmern aus. Renommierte bayerische Schloss Oberbrunn: Dort findet vom Und wieder kommen Berg-Cineasten voll auf ihre Kosten. Programm und Tickets online: Wiesnbier und wechselnde DJs. Vor der Wiesn ist nach der Wiesn. Lini Gong Sopran und das Minguet Quartett. Doch der Weg zu ihm ist gepflastert von spannenden Abenteuern ab 4 Jahren.
Ein Preis, den keiner haben will. Werke nach u. Zur Ausstellung Dietmar Janz: Mit Einblicken in die Entstehung des Projektes. In der Reihe Schreibende Garchinger. The lecture will discuss the large scale archaeological explorations by Ben-Gurion University expedition in North Sinai, between Gaza and the Suez Canal.
Sie brauchen noch einen Deutschkurs? Auditorium des Zentrums Neue Technologien Aladin El-Mafaalani und Prof. Grundkenntnisse in Deutsch vorausgesetzt. Mit Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos jr, u. Doch der riesige Schwertfisch passt nicht ins Boot Reihe Amerikanische Klassiker Bibl. Geburtstag — Ein Vortrag mit Dr. Dahoam is Dahoam; Der Fall Christin Rexin Nachtjournal; 0: Mit Murathan Muslu, Katrin Sass u. Mit Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl. Mit Robert Downey Jr. Tischtennis — Ein schnelles Spiel; Fallschirm statt Rollstuhl Menschen hautnah; 2: Neues von gestern Mit Choichiro Kawarazaki, Toshiji Kobayashi u.
Weltmusik zwischen Latin, Jazz und Afro. HipHop und Breakbeats Mit Ausstellung bis 7. EG, Raum Blade Runner und stellt sich den Fragen des Publikums. Der aus der Mongolei stammende Autor. Wohin mit dem halbkaputten Mixer oder Fahrrad? Hier treffen Repair-Willige auf Repair-Kundige. Mit Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet u. Eingang Altes Rathaus ST. Bei nicht eindeutiger Wetterlage: Lannert und Bootz sind. Mit Shawn Lock, Paulina Gaitan u. Jahrhunderts, der mit dem Tod um sein Leben spielt. Drogen, Depression und politische Machtspiele: Und so ganz nebenbei haben sie es weltweit bis an die Spitze des Pop-Punk Revivals geschafft.
Bach und Dan Locklair. Mit dem Tbilisi State Chamber Orchestra. Sprechfolter mit Lea Barletti, Werner Waas.
Mit DJ Albert Royal. Burlesque, freche Lieder und fast nackte Tatsachen. In Kooperation mit dem Lyrik-Kabinett. Es lesen und performen: Zugang zur Markthalle durch den Laden. Mit Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz u. Mit Pierce Brosnan u. Nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Stephen King. Mit Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger u. Der Dorfpolizist muss sich mit unerwartetem Familienzuwachs auseinandersetzen. Mit Krister Henriksson u. Crash Boom Bang Mit Jonah Hill, Leslie Mann u. Lord of the Dead s.
Gut Ding will aber auch in schnelllebigen Zeiten Weile haben Maximilian Kolbe, Jennifer Carpenter Sprecher. Bitte eigene Gedichte mitbringen. Dazu Berichte von seinen Recherchereisen mit zahlreichen Bildern. Jahrhundert entstanden, auch im 3. Kostenlose Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe. Die andere Tochter Anne Holt: Mit Jutta Speidel, Peter Bongartz.
Familienmelodram um eine uneheliche Tochter. Mit Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper u. Die trinkfesten Kumpels kriegen es mit Gangstern zu tun. Mit Jason Statham, Michael Angarano u. Das Meisterwerk von in einer Special Edition: Ein ebenso bildgewaltig wie eindrucksvoll aufgezogenes Remake des Science-Fiction-Klassikers. Mit Ian Somerhalder u. Ein Actionthriller, der die besten Auftragskiller der Welt in einem Turnier aufeinander hetzt.
Mit Khalid Abdalla, Lewis Alsamari u. Klingt nach Jane Austen, ist Jane Austen. Sie rennen, raufen, fallen, bluten.
Mit Xuan Huang, Miao Miao u. Benefizlesung zugunsten des Bellevue di Monaco. Simon Biallowons Verlag Herder. Mit Forest Whitaker u. Die bestialisch zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Frau ruft gleich drei Ermittler auf den Plan. War es ein politischer Mord oder ein Verbrechen im Drogenmilieu? Ein Klassiker des chinesischen Kinos. EG Raum Vortrag des Historikers und Schriftstellers Lutz van Dijk. Morden im Norden; Mit Sebastian Tiede, Ruby O. Mit Robert Redford, Nick Nolte. Die Zugspitze Wildes Deutschland: Ein subjektiver, nicht wertender Blick auf die Schlagerindustrie in Deutschland.
Altmans ebenso turbulente wie umstrittene Anti-Kriegs-Satire in Korea. Mit Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger u. Mit Sly Stallone, Kurt Russell u. The Old Dark House s. Der Ebersberger Journalist SZ begibt sich in dieser Lesung auf eine Zeitreise in die Vergangenheit seiner Eltern, in seine eigene — und in die Deutschlands, bevor mit der Kriegsgeneration eine Epoche endet. Lesung zur Sendung am 7. Die nicht im Landtag vertretenen Parteien Wie unsere Tracht endlich in der Gegenwart ankommt! Mit Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth u.
Vortrag von Stefan Winter M. Deutschlernen mit Laptops s. Bequeme Kleidung, Matte oder Decke mitbringen. Mit journalistischen Darstellungsformen experimentieren, Konferenzen abhalten, gemeinsam Ideen entwickeln etc. Mit Paul Bettany u. Mit Terence Hill, Bud Spencer u. Die unzertrennlichen Haudegen schlagen sich mit einem schrottreifen Flugzeug durchs Leben. Mit Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott u. Weltkrieg zur Prostitution gezwungen wurden. Tango, Bossa, Son, Valse und Flamenco. Bitte eigenes Fahrrad mitbringen.
Mit Veronica Ferres, Heiner Lauterbach u. Mit Dieter Hallervorden u. MitHarrison Ford, Carrie Fisher u. Mit Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne u. Mit Chris Pine, Piper Perabo u. Ein junger Deutscher verliebt sich in eine Halbitalienerin und bekommt es mit ihrer italienischen Sippe zu tun. Ein ganz normaler Tag im Leben der vorlauten Zeichentrickkultfigur: Altenpflege, Hundedressur, autoerotische Experimente u.
Einer der packendsten Italo-Western: Ein pralles Spiel mit den Mythen des Wilden Westens. Der Meisterdetektiv trifft auf den genial-wahnsinnigen Verbrecher Professor Moriarty und hetzt ihn durch ganz Europa. Mit Nina Hoss, Nina Kunzendorf u. Weltkrieg ihr altes Leben und ihren Mann sucht. Mit Ahmad Thaher, Odai Hijazi u. In seinem Nachlass entdeckt man hunderte Gedichte der Verzweiflung. Durch diesen Vorfall inspiriert, widmet sich die Doku dem Alltag chinesischer Arbeiter.
Der Bandname mag zwar nach falsch geschriebenem Isolierband klingen, doch steckt hinter dem Namen ein erfolgreiches Streich-Trio. Weber zeigt seinen feurigen Schutzwall gegen jegliche Versuche der Manipulation. Lieder mit Martin Schmid Mozart, Beethoven und Haydn. Vortrag von EvaMaria Glasbrenner. Beide Sportler sind anwesend. Moop Mama Rundschau; 1: Ehemann Lotzmann erlebt einen ziemlich stressigen Tag am Aufarbeitung der Kriegsverbrechen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien anhand von 9 Veteranen, die sich nach 15 J. Erstklassig inszeniert und gespielt.
Facettenreich singen Renate Bachmann, Joy C. Ohne Voranmeldung bis zu 10 Minuten eigene Lyrik oder Prosa vorlesen. Mozart, Pachelbel, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi u. Deutschlernen mit Laptops siehe Fr Mit Margarita Broich, Wolfram Koch u. Ein Friseursalon brennt, eine Auszubildende kommt darin um. Die Frankfurter Hauptkommissare ermitteln auf Hochtouren Mit Rachael Taylor, Joshua Jackson u. Mit Clint Eastwood, Lee J.
Der Film schildert die Zeit von bis , als die Band pausenlos um die Welt tourte. Die Symptome von Ingolstadt B2 Ein oft zitiertes Meisterwerk des chinesischen Kinos. Dieser Frage stellt sich der Schwabinger Jazzund Popchor und nimmt das Publikum mit auf eine spannende und abwechslungsreiche Reise durch die Musikwelt der 80er. Das verbindende Element zu all diesen Stilen bietet beiden Musikern der Jazz.
Eder, Neue Freisinger Hofmusik. Im Rahmen des Festivals zum Geburtstag des Freisinger Hofkapellmeisters. Bach, Messiaen und Mark Andre Heinrich Klug Moderation, Konzept. Anja Perkuhn, Katrin Freiburghaus. Mozart und die Liebe. Aber die Pinguine sind zu dritt Sa im Monat Mai bis Okt. Gruppen und Clubs willkommen. Mit Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint u. Mit Jason Bateman, Joel Edgerton u. Mit Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva u. Mit Hansi Kraus u. Mit Katharina Wackernagel, Alexander Held u. Die Stralsunder Kommissarin wird in unangenehme Ermittlungen mit einer Todesliste verwickelt.
Mit Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie u. Doch die Arbeitslosigkeit droht. Open for musicians and listeners. Keyboard, drum set and PA are available. Vortrag von Philipp Imhof M.
Eintritt frei KULT9 Lesung aus dem eindringlichen Appell gegen den erstarkenden Antisemitismus. Geburtstag des bedeutenden russischen Schriftstellers , dessen enge Beziehung zur Musik sich in seinen Werken widerspiegelte. So im Monat zum Spielen komplexer strategischer Brettspiele u. Werkzeug vorhanden, Ersatzteile bitte mitbringen. Jede bringt 10 Fashionteile mit. Vortrag mit der Aktivistin und Bloggerin Dr. Turm des Alten Rathauses. Im Rahmen des Kunstprojektes patriziazewe. So im Monat Info-T. Das Dortmunder-Team hat es diesmal mit einer verbrannten Leiche und einem ausgehungerten Jungen in einem Hotelzimmer zu tun.
Mit Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm u. Mit Dennis Farina, Alan Rickman u. Candidplatz 1, Ecke Pilgersheimer Str. Mit Denzel Washington, Chris Pine u. Am laufenden Band Rockpalast: Der Mann im Baum 0: Mit Huub Stapel u. Mit selbigem, Milan Peschel, Joko Winterscheidt u. Bach, Max Reger und L. Rezitation des Gedichts von Aichinger durch Dunja Bengsch. Ein Hauch von und Gunnar Becker: Vortrag von Pietro Tondello. Vortrag von Christian Masengarb.
Vortrag von Harald Eggebrecht. Tod und Spiele s. Mit Joanne Froggatt u. Drama nach einer wahren Begebenheit: Eine Frau wird Zeugin, wie ihr Verlobter erstochen wird und muss folglich als Kronzeugin gegen einen bekannten Verbrecher aussagen. Mit Sebastian Zimmler, Robert Finster u. Robert Redfords melodramatisches Regiedebut gewann vier Oscars. Polit-Thriller nach Tom Clancy: Sibyllen im Hercules B2 Afraid to Talk s. Aber klar, der elegant treibende Indierock von youtube-Sternchen Chrissy Constanza und ihren Mannen ist eine spannende Sache.
Petersburg mit Werken von Strauss, Szymanovski, D. Werke von John Cage u. Vortrag von Harald Bodenschatz. Mit Tom Beck u. Ein Rockstar schreibt keine Hits mehr - sehr zum Leidwesen seines Managers, der seine Assistentin auf ihn ansetzt Ein weiterer Heimatkrimi mit einer couragierten Provinzpolizistin. Action-Drama mit einem hochdekorierten General, der wegen Befehlsverweigerung einsitzt und eine Gefangenenrevolte organisiert. Das perfekte Dinner; Vortrag von David Ranan. Vortrag von Stefan Hagen. Mit Sissy Engl und Sigi Popp. Cornelia Heintze und Dr. Mit Liz Taylor, Richard Burton u.
Musikkabarett vom einfachen Lebensplan. Internationalen Bergfilm-Festival Tegernsee gezeigt werden. Gattungen vor und geben Hintergrundinfos zu Autor sowie Rezeption. Axel Munnecke Geozentrum Nordbayern. Bestellung bequem online unter www. Angelika Gneist, Nachbarschaft Schwabing. Getauscht werden Dienstleistungen und Dinge.
Ob Aerobic, Functional Training o. Mit Thierry Lhrtmitte u. Mit Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates. Eine furios aufgezogene One-Man-Show: Denn die beliebtesten Ausbildungsstellen sind schnell weg. Oktober von 14 bis 17 Uhr, Kapuzinerstr. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich. Weitere Informationen auch unter: XX, weitere Veranstaltungen ab S. XX oder auf www. Doch der Weg zu ihm ist gepflastert von spannenden Abenteuern ab 4 J.
Mozart von der Europareise des jungen Komponisten ab 6 Jahren. Geiselgasteig, Bavariafilmplatz 7 T. Die Arbeit der Restauratoren spielerisch entdecken Jahre; T. Besuch auf der Schatzinsel. Die Abenetuer eines kleinen Piraten ab 4 Jahren. Kino mit Popcorn ab Von 6 bis 11 Jahren. Mit Inger Nilsson u. Mit Lige Bi, Liban Bi u. Mit dem Kinderchor St. Bis sie auf eine Maus trifft Gerne Lieblingsmusik auf CD mitbringen!
Entdeckungstouren durchs Museum und selbst kreativ werden; mit wechselnden Themen und Techniken. Prinzregententheater bei uns gastiert. Auf dem Programm steht dann auch bei ihm Beethoven, allerdings das Konzert Nr. Luisa Cottifogli Am Rufen Sie bis Sonntag, 7. Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, W. KiJu-Vorstellung ab 6 Jahren. Akademiekonzert — Bayerisches Staatsorchester s. Andreas Herrmann und dem Mariinsky Orchester. Oper in zwei Akten konzertant von Rossini zum Kostenlose Einlasskarten ab Sa 6. Heute mit dem Sirius Quartet feat. Hosenrollen in der Oper. Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Ravel u.
Schwarzer Saal Mi Vokale Winterreise in die italienischen Alpen. Mit Georg Zirsch Violine. Im Rahmen der 9. Orff-Tage der Bayerischen Philharmonie. Radmila Besics Wohnzimmerkonzert Bach, Haydn und Boccherini. Mit dem Ensemble Alban Berg Sonate op. Passionsoratorium von Carl Loewe: Mozart, Mussorgski, Rossini u. Werke von Haydn, W. Mozart, Rossini und Mussorgsky. Todestag ihres Freundes — des genialen Pianisten, Komponisten und Dirigenten. Herbstkonzert mit Werken von Joseph Haydn u. Leonidas Kavakos Violine; Artist in Residence.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Abonnementkonzert Klassik vor Acht, Karten-T. Hinteres Studio Sa Salsa cubana Ab Sensual Lounge Bachata mit DJ ab Bach, Harald Genzmer u. Goldener Oktober Am Mozart Requiem, KV Boning Sopran , E. Summerer Mezzosopran , N. Pfannkuch Tenor , R. Leif Ove Andsnes Klavier. Jetzt kommt das Trio in die Milla 5. Er kommt nicht allein: Was die Britin singt, schickt sie manchmal direkt in ihre Loop-Maschine oder verfremdet es auf andere Art. Ob sie es bei ihrem jetzt anstehenden Solo-Konzert Unterfahrt, Oktober ein gemeinsames Quintett. Protodub, Autobahn meets Rockers Uptown.
Absolut sehenswert ist das laut und schnell. Die kritischen Lyrics und das Thema so aktuell wie damals. Ampere Blatt vor den Mund: Cobra Studio in Berlin. Vor allem live zeigen sich die Qua-. Ihre Musik erinnert an P. Radin, der Erfinder des Whisper-Rock, und freuen. Gerd Baumanns filmmusibilder wie Bob Dylan nennen sie beide.
GekopWeg in eine neue musikalische Dimen- pelt mit selbstbewusstem Auftreten und einer Botschaft hat sich das Projekt sion folgt. Eigentlich kein Wunder, denn sein Sound ist einfach richtig gut: Begleitet wird er diesmal von Mr. Muffathalle Charakteristisch bleibt der ganz besondere Sound der Schotten: Nein, auch kein Bass ist mit dabei… Wo jetzt der Druck herkommen soll, fragt sich. Mit dabei sind die befreundeten Bands: The Lazys gelten als die Rock-Hoffnung der Gegenwart The Dead South 7.
You Me At Six 2. Rag Y Los Hermanos P. Leon Bridges Am Weitere Infos zum Line Up unter: Lee Al- Leitung von Alexandra Arrieche. Apeirage, Cauterize, Red mit diversen befreundeten Bands. Outtake und Sa 3. Schandmaul, Vroudenspil, Ye Banis- tion und Meshiaak. Liebe Lesende, es ist mir wirklich eine Ehre euch hier ein paar Herzensplatten vorzustellen. Melvins — Nude with boots Diese Krachburschen begleiten mich nun schon ewig. Dabei haben mich die Melvins auf eine ganz besondere Art direkt angesprochen. Coady als zweiter Drummer macht die.
Auf einmal fand ich Klavierballaden gut. We go way back. Nur ein Exzellenz-Abiturient wie ich schafft es gerade so. Ja, es wurzelt immer im Punk. Aber es ist so viel mehr als das. Aber nur an die Allerbesten! Der Gitarrist Tom Holliston wird am 6. Zudem kann man auch nach inzwischen ca.
Live gesehen habe ich ihn leider nie.
Und das soll Hardcore sein? Und das ist vollkommen egal. Erleben Sie am Die Tickets sind streng limitiert. Alles also wie immer. Und nun haut der Sir eben mal ein super Album raus, dass man einfach nur lieben muss. Huch, das geht komisch los Abstrakt ist das, genial ist das! The Soviet purges sickened him, as did the American situation: There is undoubtedly a sense of isolation, but not of paralysis: The theme of goodness occupied him once again, but the basic theme concerns the rightness of giving the child or the disputed land to those best able to tend or cultivate it.
The play is most successful in the portrayal of the judge Azdak, a figure compounded of the vitality and amoral zest of Baal, of Puntila and, to a lesser extent, of Galileo himself. Brecht returned to Europe at the end of The setting up of his own Theater am Schiffbauerdamm brought little comfort: It is perhaps significant that Brecht wrote nothing of original merit for the theatre after his return to East Berlin; he adapted, produced and modified, turning his attention, amongst other things, to Waiting for Godot and Pineapple Poll.
He withdrew again into poetry and wrote, in the Buckower Elegien, some of his finest. With economy, grace and sobriety he evoked a world of trees and water, silence and serenity, far from the turmoil of Berlin. Before his premature death in he had suggested that his epitaph might contain the lines: The following editions of his work should be noted: A companion to twentieth-century german literature 46 Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter —75 Brinkmann, whose early death in a road accident on a visit to London put an end to a career which may or may not have been in the doldrums, began in association with the Cologne realists Wellershoff, Herburger, Elsner, etc.
Never political, he combined crude vitalism, linguistic virtuosity and an obsession with the surface detail of everyday life; only the last of these features, however, was taken up and developed by others e. While his poetry already seems dated and undisciplined, his final major prose work Rom. Blicke may prove to be a seminal work in its combination of verbal and photographic commentary, besides maintaining the strong German tradition of literature portraying the metropolis.
Britting, Georg — Poet, playwright and writer of narrative prose, Britting started to write after the First World War he was badly wounded in He collaborated on many expressionist journals Die rote Erde, Der Sturmreiter, Der silberne Spiegel and edited his own, Die Sichel, with Josef Achmann, who contributed the graphic designs. Britting greatly admired Georg Heym; he also wrote grotesque versions of biblical themes Hiob, Kain, Jor auf der Flucht, etc.
During the Second World War Britting turned increasingly to nature poetry, leaving behind the excesses of expressionism and the parodistic elements of Hamlet. Short stories also appeared: Lob des Weines, a collection of twenty poems, appeared in Britting turned to traditional themes and structures, although his imagery remained fresh and striking.
Broch insisted upon an intellectualization of the novel, on working out, by sheer intellectual effort, the troubles of the world. Theoretical essays alternated with works of imagination: Both Broch and Musil embarked upon vast novels that would encompass the problems of the age, combining rationalism and mysticism. The Schlafwander trilogy —2 , encyclopedic and polyhistorical novels, have as their concern the disintegration of values and the decay of European civilization in the period — The first, Pasenow oder die Romantik, has been compared with Fontane, but the secure ground of the nineteenth century has been left far behind: The second, Esch oder die Anarchie, portrays the insubstantiality of the existence of the small book-keeper Esch, who is able neither to escape from Europe nor to come to terms with it; the third, Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit, portrays violence and anarchic forces which destroy the narcissistic world of the heroine.
The realization of the helplessness of the word when faced by the unspeakable will be a concern of many writers in the twentieth century, especially in German-speaking countries. The fourth novel, Die Schuldlosen , treats twentieth-century themes and uses certain dates , and as points of reference: The novel is uncomfortably suspended between political allegory and romantic myth.
Finissage am So The four stories of Der Jongleur im Kino show a sensitive boy adapting to and adopting a pre-fascist mentality. In Und sagte kein einziges Wort the predicament of the soldier come home, forced by inadequate housing to meet his wife in hotel rooms, is exacerbated by the unsympathetic attitude of the better off and contrasted with ecclesiastical pomp and tasteless advertising. German Edition Apr 02, Since then he has written stories Ein schwarzer, abgrundtiefer See , extended and Babylon and novels which concentrate on human foibles and idiosyncrasies in domestic and professional contexts, although social and political pressures, implicitly criticized, are present in various forms. Hier liegt er geradezu in der Luft, der zarte Dunst von Kunst.
The character of Mutter Gisson with her Demeterlike qualities fails to convince, the symbolism being forced and obtrusive, but the description of mass psychology is masterful. The speculative study on A companion to twentieth-century german literature 48 Massenpsychologie stands comparison with the essay Masse und Macht by Elias Canetti as one of the most perceptive analyses of the relationship between the individual self and the corporate whole. Broch, of Jewish parentage, was arrested when the Nazis invaded Austria, but was released on the intervention of writers like James Joyce.
He settled in America and wrote his last novels there.
The Gesammelte Schriften ten vols appeared between and reprinted ; the Kommentierte Werkausgabe 13—17 vols appeared from to His early story Tod den Toten! As a Jew, Brod became a Zionist in , and he became especially interested in the more conservative faith of his co-religionists from the eastern provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Brod emigrated to Tel Aviv in and died there in In that year his autobiography Streitbares Leben appeared, which contains enlightening references to Kafka and also to Franz Werfel, of whose conversion to Christianity see Das Lied von Bernadette Brod did not approve.
He produced three volumes of war poetry, Aus meiner Kriegszeit. Gedichte , Kamerad, als wir marschierten. Kriegsgedichte and Soldaten der Erde. A war novel, Bunker Geschichte einer Kameradschaft , was widely read it was translated into English as Pillbox Gesamtausgabe der Gedichte in Eine Auswahl der Gedichte appeared in Bronnen, Arnolt originally Bronner, — Dramatist and novelist, Bronnen was one of the most extreme of the young talented writers who made the opening years of the Weimar Republic a fascinating and often disturbing experience. His play Vatermord written in , performed in Berlin in was the first of many scandals that surrounded his name; the portrayal of brutal violence and uninhibited sexuality outraged the audience.
Die Geburt der Jugend is a chaotic description of anarchic youth; the older generation is annihilated by sexually demented adolescents. In his comedy Die Exzesse the erotic desires of the woman, Hildegarde, find satisfaction in contemplation of intercourse with a goat. Katalaunische Schlacht looks back to the war as a time of frenzied and erotic ecstasy. Rheinische Rebellen is an overtly nationalist play; Ostpolzug , a monodrama, fuses ancient and modern in its portrayal of Alexander the Great.
Bronnen worked for the film industry in the s, also the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft. His relations with the Nazis were, however, strained. His autobiography Arnolt Bronnen gibt zu Protokoll appeared in ; Tage mit Brecht posthumously in Bruckner, Ferdinand pseudonym of Theodor Tagger, — Primarily a dramatist, Bruckner achieved fame in with his play Krankheit der Jugend, a crass and naturalistic portrayal of adolescent sexuality, much indebted to Freud.
Bruckner used techniques made famous by Erwin Piscator; his greatest success was Elisabeth von England , where the stage is again split between the two realms, Catholic Madrid and Protestant London, with both antagonists praying to the same god for victory. Bruckner also turned his attention, with less success, to classical themes Timon and Pyrrhus und Andromache perf. A very successful play was Die Rassen , one which exploits the generation conflict and also the tension between Jew and Aryan.
Bruckner emigrated to America in and returned to Europe in , spending the last years of his life in Berlin. Dramatische Werke and Schauspiele nach historischen Studien were both published in An edition of Dramen appeared in Brust was helped by Kurt Wolff; he lived in isolation in Memel and moved to Cranz after the Lithuanian occupation.
Brust shares with many expressionists a predilection for crass and often shocking climaxes. Brust turned towards a portrayal of pseudoreligious experiences in a series of other plays Cordatus. He died in obscurity, isolation and poverty at the age of forty-three; the Nazis initially tolerated his writing, believing him to be an acceptable poet of East Prussian life, although later his work was condemned as degenerate.
The Dramen — ed. Horst Denkler appeared in Since then he has written stories Ein schwarzer, abgrundtiefer See , extended and Babylon and novels which concentrate on human foibles and idiosyncrasies in domestic and professional contexts, although social and political pressures, implicitly criticized, are present in various forms. Essays Kritiken Glossen Unpolitische Betrachtungen zu Literatur und Politik demonstrate individual interests Haiti, Alejo Carpentier and more general concerns of his generation ecology, post-history, apocalypse , the latter present also in Bericht aus dem Innern der Unruhe.
Gorlebener Tagebuch , on demonstrations against nuclear power. Central to the rest of his work is his relationship to the American continent and in particular Haiti, which he visited for the first time in and where he has ancestral links. In the reportages Aus der neuen Welt. An informative document on Burckhardt is the Festschrift which appeared on his seventieth birthday, Dauer im Wechsel Burger, Hermann —89 Burger studied in Zurich, wrote dissertations on Paul Celan and contemporary Swiss literature and taught for a while at the Federal Technical University in Zurich.
His chief works, Schilten. Burger shares with the Austrian Thomas Bernhard and with other contemporary Swiss writers e. Meyer the theme of death as the ultimate threat to personal identity, which he treats with an even greater degree of linguistic virtuosity and reflective intensity. He committed suicide in Brunsloben and Menzenmang volume I and volume II, chapters 1—7 of the planned tetralogy Brenner on the scion of a cigar manufacturing dynasty in search of his childhood appeared in and Der unsichtbare Held, a Nibelungen drama, appeared in the same year.
A companion to twentieth-century german literature 54 Burte published poems in Alemannic dialect Madlee ; a further anthology appeared in Die Seele des Maien. Burte received much acclaim for his work, the Kleist prize for Wildfeber and other distinctions during the Third Reich. The sinologist Peter Kien, obsessed by his own private library, and retreating ever further into a state of solipsism, is ultimately destroyed by fire, ancient symbol of transformation. The other characters, Pfaff, Theresa Krumbholz and Fischerle, are also utterly self-centred and convinced of their own importance.
The idea for the novel came to Canetti in when he witnessed the burning of the Palace of Justice by a mob in Vienna. Canetti moved to Paris in and to London in the following year. In he published Masse und Macht, a sociological, anthropological study of crowds and power: A collection of aphorisms made between and , Aufzeichnungen, appeared in Das Geheimnis der Uhr.
Aufzeichnungen — appeared in In Canetti was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. A companion to twentieth-century german literature 56 Carossa, Hans — Son of a doctor, Hans Carossa studied medicine in Munich and Leipzig, then settled as a medical practitioner in Bavaria. Verwandlungen einer Jugend is a less successful sequel.
The novel Geheimnisse des reifen Lebens uses the diary form to explore human relationships. After the war Carossa attempted to explain his situation at that time in Ungleiche Welten Further autobiographical details of his life appeared in Aufzeichnungen aus Italien ; a scattering of short stories appeared in the s. His poetry is unassuming and traditional: In his work Carossa eschews modernist experimentation; he appealed to the educated middle-class German reader with his cultivation of humanistic values derived from Goethe.
Unlike his parents Celan escaped deportation when his home was occupied by the Nazis, but awareness of the Holocaust is at the centre of his work, his approach to the problems of language and communication in general long a preoccupation of writers from the linguistic melting-pot of Central Europe and the Balkans being linked to the impossibility of conveying the extreme physical and existential exposure of the persecuted.
These, together with translations of twentyone sonnets by Shakespeare and poems by Char, Supervielle, Michaux, Yessenin, Mandelstam, Block and others, were assembled in the provisional Gesammelte Werke in five volumes. Despite the increasing number of exegeses see the Celan-Jahrbuch: He was a man of mystical tendency whose experience of the Holocaust placed obstacles in the way to religious enlightenment; the distortion and reversal of normal syntactical relationships which are a marked feature of his work are related to this central paradox.
However, he remained attached to Jewish culture, as is evident especially in late poems set in Jerusalem. Gesammelte Werke five volumes appeared in His defence of members of the Baader-Meinhof group during the seventies influenced along with Kafka the fragmentary novel Die Herren des Morgengrauens He has also produced works which owe their origin to experiences in Italy Malavita. Mafia zwischen A companion to twentieth-century german literature 58 gestern und morgen and Briganten , a play on Mayakovsky Weltmeisterschaft im Klassenkampf and radio plays.
Csokor, Franz Theodor — Csokor is known primarily as an Austrian expressionist dramatist. He worked in theatres in St Petersburg before settling in his native Vienna: After the First World War Csokor turned to historical and social problems: After Csokor fled into eastern Europe; he was finally arrested in Yugoslavia, and interned. A selection of his works, Du bist gemeint, with a foreword by Erhard Buschbeck, appeared in The Zeuge einer Zeit.
Ein paar Schaufeln Erde. Czechowski, Heinz — Czechowski witnessed the destruction of Dresden, which became the subject of several poems and autobiographical sketches. His melancholy free verse belongs to a tradition of nature poetry which originates in the eighteenth century and is imbued with an awareness of how his predecessors have responded to the same mainly Saxon landscapes and the effects on them of industrial development.
In all these one can detect a movement from a positive depiction of everyday life in the GDR and a straightforward autobiographical approach to the expression of a more complex subjectivity, sceptical of conventional views of progress. Nachtspur consists of poems and prose from to His vast epic Das Nordlicht, which took him twelve years to write, was published in The works that follow Das Nordlicht, particularly the collection of sketches Mit silberner Sichel , contain much talented writing: Dichtungen und Schriften appeared in , and Gedichte in In the following year his best-known work appeared, Ultra Violett.
He travelled extensively; a collection of Novellen again, greatly influenced by Jugendstil topoi appeared in Die acht Gesichter am Biwasee. Japanische Liebesgeschichten it was reprinted in and was extremely popular. In the same year his second novel, Raubmenschen, was published: Dauthendey responded sensitively to the Orient and popularized the culture of the Far East: Erlebnisse aus Java and Letzte Reise appeared posthumously.
His Gesammelte Werke six vols appeared in Degenhardt, Franz Josef — Degenhardt became known in the s as author, composer and performer to his own guitar accompaniment of protest songs, of which there have been numerous recordings and publications, incl. As a novelist he is associated with the realists published by the Autoren-Edition incl. Fuchs, Timm , who aim to raise political consciousness in a wide readership by showing how political forces impinge on the lives of ordinary people. Dehmel, Richard — A student of the natural sciences, philosophy and economy, Dehmel took up writing in the Berlin of the s and reflected in his poetry the main preoccupations of the following two decades: Nietzscheanism, naturalism, impressionism, Jugendstil and a latent expressionism.
His poetry is marked by a powerful sensuality, compassion and a keen intellect. Dehmel stresses in many poems the joy to be found in sexual love, together with hope for true emancipation in the future. Dehmel also wrote plays: His work is at its best in the portrayal of sensuous love and in its sincere, humanitarian beliefs. Although exempt from enlistment due to injuries received at school after a fall from a horizontal bar , Dehmel joined the army in he was over 50 at the time: Dehmel was in close contact with the major writers of his day; he contributed to the leading literary journals.
Gesammelte Werke ten vols appeared from to a three-volume selection in A posthumous autobiography, Mein Leben, was published in In appeared Dichtungen, Briefe, Dokumente. His awareness of the forces at work in contemporary society and of how their interaction affects individual lives underlies all his novels.
In Adenauerplatz a security guard employed to watch over a shopping and business complex in an anonymous German city is forced to confront the contradictions of his position as a refugee from Chile after the fall of Allende when he is drawn into collusion with a plot by friends to burgle an international wheeler-dealer with a stake in the political status quo in South America; having become aware of the ramifications of Third World exploitation he decides to abandon his job and return to Chile. Mogadischu Fensterplatz is a fictional treatment from the perspective of an ordinary passenger of the hijack carried out by members of the Baader-Meinhof group in Somalia in and reflects a deepening concern with Third World topics evident also in the work of Born and Timm.
Die Birnen von Ribbeck , a story consisting of a single sentence seventy pages long, describes the impact of the opening of the Wall on a farm in provincial GDR made famous by a ballad of Fontane. This work, a collection of highly charged utterances, preaches an extreme form of militant Catholicism: The publication of Part One met with little interest, the exception being Karl Wolfskehl, who looked back on it with great pleasure during his New Zealand exile.
Das Werk six volumes was published in Dinter, Artur — A student of the natural sciences, Dinter became a teacher, then turned to the theatre; he became increasingly anti-Semitic and reached notoriety with a trilogy of novels published between and The first of these was much acclaimed and widely read; in crudely sensational terms it describes the poisoning of the blood of a German woman, Johanna, through once having had intercourse with a Jew.
The child born to Johanna and her husband Hermann, both blond and Germanic, is dark and of Jewish appearance. Hermann kills the Jew and returns to find that his wife has killed the child and has committed suicide. A collection of Novellen appeared in , bearing the title of the first story, Die Ermordung einer Butterblume, an account of mental disturbance and, in fact, little more than a catalogue of neuroses. Wallenstein two vols , which appeared in , deals with the historical figures of the Thirty Years War but also hints at wider issues—the role of the individual during a time of massive upheaval.
Man and nature are locked in a gigantic struggle: Comparisons have been made with Manhattan Transfer and Ulysses Hans Henny Jahnn and others referred in their reviews to the Irish novelist: Biberkopf sinks from one stage of degradation to another: Babylonische Wandrung curses the sin of pride and portrays with grotesque humour the passage of the hero through the Babylon of Western civilization in a journey of selfexploration and expiation. The work appears formless a fusion of mythology, history, modern events, statistical facts and popular songs , but an inexhaustible richness cannot be denied.
In he became a convert to Roman Catholicism and after the war he returned to Paris, working in the cultural department of the French military government his son Wolfgang had been killed in the war, fighting as a French soldier. Questions are asked concerning the possibility of responsible action and the ultimate meaning of human existence. Doderer, Heimito von — Born near Vienna, Doderer enlisted in the Austrian army as a young man and became a Russian prisoner of war in Doderer studied history at Vienna University, received his doctorate in and dedicated himself to creating an epic description of the city he knew so well.
He had published a book of poems, Gassen und Landschaften, in , also a short novel, Die Bresche, in , but Doderer felt that he needed the breadth of the full-scale novel to do his subject Vienna justice. Other novels, Ein Mord, den jeder begeht , Der Umweg and Die erleuchteten Fenster , are best regarded as sophisticated detective stories and thrillers, meant for a wide readership.
The hero is one Melzer, former imperial officer, now senior official in the new republic. The years —11 and —5 are compared and contrasted. The book is felt to lack social awareness, despite the rich clutter A-Z 67 of its scenario. Doderer is concerned with a process which he calls Menschwerdung: A certain pretentiousness cannot be denied here, also much implausibility the worker Leonhard Kakabsa, for example, who experiences Latin as an almost mystical illumination.
After this epic re-creation of Vienna Doderer turned to shorter narrative forms: This novel is meant to be part of a cycle bearing the title Roman Nr. Der Grenzwald, a fragmentary part of this cycle, appeared posthumously in She made her final return to Germany in , since when she has lived in Heidelberg. She has also produced autobiographical writings, Von der Natur nicht vorgesehen , Aber die Hoffnung. Roman in Segmenten , revised version Her editorial work includes the anthology Nachkrieg und Unfrieden and Doppelinterpretationen , in which brief essays by readers and authors on poems by the latter are juxtaposed.
The A companion to twentieth-century german literature 68 poetological reflections present in the introductions and epilogues to these volumes are continued in the Frankfurt lectures Das Gedicht als Augenblick der Freiheit He also provided libretti for popular operettas: Dorst, Tankred — Dorst served in the army at the end of the Second World War, was a POW until , then studied German literature, art and drama in Munich, where he has continued to live. His plays since the early s are the result of a close working partnership with his wife Ursula Ehler.
He then collaborated with the director Peter Zadek on the television film Rotmord , based on this play, and on the revue Kleiner Mann— was nun? The film scenario Sand , radio play , which explores the motives for a political murder in , was followed by A-Z 69 Eiszeit , on an old man who can be identified as the unrepentant Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun; with his stubborn will to live he is contrasted with his would-be assassin who commits suicide.
The late s were occupied with the Merz cycle, an extensive chronicle in various media of a middle-class family between the late s and the present consisting of Auf dem Chimborazo , play, radio play and television film , Dorothea Merz , novel and television film , Klaras Mutter , story and television film , Die Villa , play , Mosch , film , Fragment einer Reise nach Stettin , radio play , Die Reise nach Stettin , scenario and Heinrich oder die Schmerzen der Phantasie , play and radio play , which together form a vivid panorama of German history.
Karlos first performed is a version of the material made famous by Schiller in Don Carlos. Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben presents a woman between two constrasting men, Herr Paul , first performed a conflict between progress and stasis with surreal effects, as a young entrepreneur attempts to dislodge an old couple Paul and his sister from his new business premises.
Wie Dilldapp nach dem Riesen ging is another play. A Werkausgabe has been in progress since He returned to Vienna in and again took up legal practice. His prose works include the autobiographical Z. Drach can thus be associated with Lind, Hilsenrath and Tabori as an advocate of black humour in order to expose persecution in general and that of the Jews in particular. Late works are Ja und Nein: Oktoberlicht portrays a day in the life of a middle-aged woman who visits her scattered family after a stay in hospital; in Wer verteidigt Katrin Lambert?
Eingeschlossen , in which Jesus and Prometheus confront one another as a social worker and an atomic physicist who have become the inmates of a mental hospital, represents a significant departure from the naturalism of her previous work. For A-Z 71 many years he, together with Frisch, represented contemporary drama in German to the rest of the world.
Early influences consisted of the theology absorbed at home—he was, especially in his early years, exercised by theological problems in what he recognized as a post-religious age and therefore approaches existentialism—and the plays of Thornton Wilder and Brecht. In the course of his career his work was marked by consistency of theme and a formal development towards ever greater emphasis on the grotesque, prompted by his early realization that the anonymity of the forces which control human fate nowadays cannot be reconciled with the traditional conception of tragedy: In the context of the breakdown of ideological confrontation in the late s, the play appears unwittingly prophetic.
His other writings include two volumes of Theaterschriften und Reden , , Der Mitmacher. A Werkausgabe in thirty volumes appeared in , Gesammelte Werke eight volumes in and Das dramatische Werk seventeen volumes in A Werkausgabe in seven volumes appeared in E Edschmid, Kasimir pseudonym of Eduard Schmid, — Edschmid studied Romance languages in Munich, Geneva, Paris and Strasbourg; he rapidly associated himself with the young writers of expressionism and became a tireless propagator and theoretician of that movement. In a famous lecture 13 December he described the expressionists thus: Er sieht nicht, er schaut.
Er schildert nicht, er erlebt. Er gibt nicht wieder, er gestaltet. Er nimmt nicht, er sucht. Nun gibt es nicht mehr die Kette der Tatsachen: Nun gibt es die Vision davon. In later life he wrote on expressionism again Lebendiger Expressionismus ; his diary Tagebuch —60 also contains reminiscences. Ehrenstein, Albert — Born in Vienna, son of Hungarian Jewish parents, Ehrenstein was discovered by Karl Kraus, who published his poems and grotesque prose sketches in Die kackel.
Ehrenstein is known, however, primarily as a lyric poet; Der Mensch schreit is a collection of expressionist verse, pacifist, dynamic and urgent in tone: Ehrenstein went to Switzerland during the First World War; he led a restless life afterwards, travelling through Europe and Asia in an attempt to find and cherish the finest manifestations of human civilization. In the s other collections of poetry appeared: Ehrenstein fled to New York, where he died in a hospital for the poor in Gedichte und Prosa ed. Eich also achieved prominence in the s as the principal contributor, along with Ilse Aichinger, whom he married in , Ingeborg Bachmann and Wolfgang Weyrauch, to the renaissance of radio drama, composing some fifteen plays within the decade.
In his treatise Negerplastik appeared, containing illustrations of African masks and statues. Einstein pleaded for a new three-dimensionality, finding in African carvings a sense of spatial structure similar to that created by cubism. Jahrhunderts sought to combine the assessment of primitivism with social awareness. Einstein identified with the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War and fought with them; he returned to France, but was interned when the German armies invaded. Unable to return to Spain because of his previous involvement he committed suicide at Gave de Pau.
A companion to twentieth-century german literature 76 Eisenreich, Herbert —86 Eisenreich lived in Vienna and Upper Austria, except for a period of war service, four years as a writer for the newspaper Die Zeit and the radio in the Federal Republic and a stay in France. These and his novels show him to have been the last representative of a tradition of Austrian social fiction which reached its zenith in the work of Joseph Roth and Heimito von Doderer. Die abgelegte Zeit is the surviving fragment of a novel which originally had the title Sieger und Besiegte and presents from the standpoint of the efforts of a number of characters to adapt to the situation after the Second World War in the spirit advocated by a resigned and conciliatory Austrian general in the theory of retreat he devises in the last weeks of the war.
Elsner, Gisela —92 Elsner achieved fame and notoriety at a stroke with the award of the Formentor Prize for her first novel Die Riesenzwerge The gruesome, grotesque effects conveyed here by mainly concentrating on the meal rituals of the petty bourgeois family can be related to the distanced distortions evident in the work of Grass, Jakov Lind and the early Peter Weiss rather than to the Cologne realists Wellershoff, Herburger, Born with whom she was initially associated.
They are less manifest in her later novels, but she remained primarily a satirist of contemporary social and domestic mores in the Federal Republic, viewed from the committed standpoint of a member of the West German Communist Party. In Der Nachwuchs the narrator is a repulsive child treated as a pet by its parents and forced to make a late discovery of the world beyond the confines of the stuffy family house; narrator, family and neighbours appear, as in Die Riesenzwerge, in the same jaundiced light.
In the following novels the satire becomes more psychologically penetrating and socially specific: Das Windei covers forty years in the lives of a couple determined to maintain an affluence they have been brought up to take for granted by means of a shady construction business which ends in bankruptcy. Ende, Michael —95 Ende is the most prominent recent author of stories which aim to appeal to children and adults.
His international success is based on Momo and Die unendliche Geschichte , both of which have been filmed. In the second the framework narrative set in the real world and the core narrative set in the realm of fantasy are indicated and separated by red and green scripts until after the passing of a critical point which reverses the debilitation of fantasy which had threatened the central child figure.
Engelke, Gerrit — From a working-class background, Engelke, apprenticed to a house-painter, turned early to poetry and in approached Dehmel for encouragement: With Kneip Engelke became quickly befriended; after enlistment in the outbreak of the war found him writing his novel Don Juan in Denmark Engelke grew closer to Lersch. An enthusiastic proclamation of a higher humanity pulsates throughout much of his work. A selection of his poems appeared in a volume entitled Schulter an Schulter Engelke was killed near Cambrai on 13 October ; he is buried close to the spot where Wilfrid Owen was to die two weeks later.
Rhythmus des neuen Europa appeared in reprinted Engelmann, Bernd — After service at the front Engelmann was confined to Dachau and other camps until He offered an alternative view of German history in the Deutsches Antigeschichtsbuch Wir Untertanen , covering the period from the Middle Ages to , Einig gegen Recht und Freiheit on the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich and Trotz alledem on German radicals during the last two hundred years.
He has lived as a free-lance writer or as a lecturer in Norway which inspired some bleak nature poems , Rome and the USA. Enzensberger is a polemicist schooled in the dialectic of Hegel, Marx and Adorno, to the last of whom he owes insights developed in the essays collected in Einzelheiten two volumes and , which rigorously analyse the West German media.
His journalism has been collected in the volumes Politik und Verbrechen , Politische Kolportagen , Deutschland, Deutschland unter anderem , Palaver , Politische Brosamen , the seven travel reports Ach Europa! The collections of poems Zukunftsmusik and Kiosk continue the process of growing scepticism and distance from earlier certainties, spiced with metaphysical wit. Diderots Schatten assembles all the writings on the French sage who has long been admired by Enzensberger.
Enzensberger has been a key figure in the intellectual life of the Federal Republic from its foundation and his influence far transcends the reputation he has gained from his contribution to any single genre, even poetry. Occasionally derided as a chameleon figure he has demonstrated by his polemical talent, his wit, his cosmopolitanism, his versatility in several media and his ability to take a broad view of social and political developments and to assess their implications in a pragmatic spirit unusual in the German left, that, as in the days of Heinrich Heine, there is a place for positive subversion.
A visit to Italy turned his attention to questions of artistry rather than politics: As Dramaturg in Weimar —14 Ernst wrote a series of historical plays including Demetrios , Canossa , Brunhild and Ninon de Lenclos After the patriotic tone in his writing became more pronounced, and his conservative stance more extreme; the basic human problems, Ernst believed, were revealed more clearly in rural, even feudal, society than amongst the urban proletariat. His literary reputation is founded on his prose rather than his dramas: The hero of the first, one Hans Werther, rejects social and political pre-occupations and finds fulfilment in marriage and agriculture.
Most well-known are the collections of Novellen: His essays including Der Weg zur Form advocate restraint and order in writing and a hierarchical ideal in society. The attempt to rescue the verse-epic Das Kaiserbuch —8 , and Der Heiland was largely unsuccessful.
His Gesammelte Werke now largely unread appeared between and in twenty-one volumes. The second novel, Alraune. Die Geschichte eines lebenden Wesens , was immensely popular a girl is born from the seed of an ejaculating victim of the hangman implanted in a certain Alma Raune in a nearby hospital: Ewers considered himself the herald of a fantastic Satanist movement that looked back to Poe and de Sade: Der Fundvogel is a sensational account of an enforced sex change.
Ewers was appointed to the Dichter-Akademie, but the Nazis, finding his earlier writings incompatible with visions of Nordic health, prohibited further writing and pronounced Ewers degenerate. His work is primarily of interest in the link that it provides between decadence, Satanism and National Socialism. Gesammelte Werke eight vols appeared in Seltsame Geschichten were published in Fallada became instantly famous with Kleiner Mann, was nun?
The protagonist Pinneberg attempts to defend his private happiness between the middle classes on the one hand and the proletariat on the other, dreading redundancy and the threat of impoverishment: Fallada, an alcoholic, wrote at a frantic pace to provide himself with funds; during the Third Reich he turned to idyllic romances and folksy legends. Damals bei uns daheim and Heute bei uns zu Hause are little more than autobiographies. The Russians elected Fallada as mayor of Feldberg in Mecklenburg two years before his death.
Fallada is a powerful story-teller who succeeds best when describing the narrow, sentimental world of the petite bourgeoisie: Fels, Ludwig — Of working-class origin, Fels has more successfully than any other contemporary social realist, with the possible exception of Kroetz, encapsulated in his poetry and prose the sadness, frustration, anger and disorientation of the under-class in the urban environment.
Fels relies on experience and an unidealistic identification with his characters. Bleeding Heart is a novel on the ego-trip of a desperately jealous man set in Tangier. Sturmwanderung and Die Hochzeit von Sarajewo are plays, the latter set in the Bosnian civil war. Feuchtwanger, Lion — Dramatic critic, playwright and novelist, Feuchtwanger made his reputation in the s with a series of historical novels. He helped Bertolt Brecht with Trommeln in der Nacht originally called Spartakus and collaborated with him on Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England; Brecht in turn helped him to revise his Warren Hastings, Gouverneur von Indien written , published and, some twenty years later, wrote with him Die Gesichte der Simone Machard.
A Jew himself, Feuchtwanger described as early as in Die Geschwister Oppenheim the sufferings and tribulations of his fellow Jews in Germany. He fled to France and also visited the Soviet Union; he became co-editor with Brecht and Willi Bredel of the anti-fascist literary review Das Wort, published in Moscow. His plays, mostly Old Testament and historical dramas, have not proved successful, apart from those written in collaboration with Brecht.
Together with others, Feuchtwanger founded the Aurora publishing house in New York at the end of the war to bring out works in German for the reviving German market. In he was awarded the Nationalpreis der DDR. His Gesammelte Werke appeared from —48; the Gesammelte Werke twenty vols from on, with a sixteen-volume edition appearing in Fichte, Hubert —86 The illegitimate son of a Jewish father, Fichte spent part of his childhood in a Catholic orphanage, an experience which formed the basis of his first novel Das Waisenhaus He then trained as an actor, but also worked on the land in North Germany and Provence before becoming a professional writer in Hamburg.
Here he remained until his death, except for extensive journeys in South America and the Caribbean in connection A-Z 85 with his later anthropological works. Nossack, Der Untergang and references to the ritual practices of AfroAmerican religions. These form the subject of the following works: Xango accompanied by a photographic volume with the same title , dealing with Bahia, Haiti and Trinidad, and Petersilie , on Santo Domingo, Venezuela, Miami and Grenada, which develop the preoccupation with abnormal sexual practices and psychopathology reflected in his earlier work.
What was completed of the planned nineteen parts of the cycle of novels Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit appeared between and Der kleine Hauptbahnhof oder Lob des Strichs, 3. Glossen set in Berlin this volume is not to be published until , 4. Glossen set in Rome, Greece, Egypt, Morocco , 6. Der Platz der Gehenkten set in Morocco , 7. Roman der Ethnologie set in Brazil , unnumbered volumes: Forschungsbericht set in Belize , Psyche. In addition there are volumes of Paralipomena: These are assembled in a sixteen-volume cassette. Flake turned to traditional writing after the war and sought to promote understanding between France and Germany: In the s Flake embarked upon a Badische Chronik; he also wrote essays on French literary figures, his best being on the Marquis de Sade , whose preface attempts to explain that it is necessary to describe the perverse in order fully to appreciate the norm.
An autobiography appeared in Es wird Abend. The Werke five vols appeared from to In she met Bertolt Brecht, who had the most far-reaching influence upon her work. More sober is Pioniere in Ingolstadt , a hard-boiled portrayal of the effect on the young girls of the town of the arrival of a troop of soldiers.
Avantgarde is a thinly-veiled portrayal of Brecht. Her play on Charles I, Karl Stuart, was first published in The Gesammelte Werke three vols appeared in , a four-volume edition in Flex had also A-Z 87 published two volumes of poems before the war and a historical tragedy in verse, Klaus Bismarck , dealing with an ancestor of the Prussian statesman Flex had been a private tutor to the Bismarck family. This was reprinted in Riga as late as May Gesammelte Werke two vols appeared in He was famous for short stories concerning the lives of North German fishermen his father having been one: Schullengrieper und Tungenknieper , Fahrersleute and Nordsee He reached a wide readership with his novel Seefahrt ist not!
Much of his writing is in Plattdeutsch, particularly the Hamborger Janmooten His plays, Cilli Cohrs and Doggerbank posthumously, , are less successful. Fock also published a collection of Plattdeutsche Kriegsgedichte —15 , many of them humorous: Das schnellste Schiff der Flotte. Die besten Geschichten Gorch Focks appeared in The West German training-ship for young cadets is named after him. Erinnerungen is an informative and sympathetic document. In Fontana contributed poems to a collection by A companion to twentieth-century german literature 88 E.
Rheinhardt entitled Die Botschaft. Fontana turned increasingly to the novel: In appeared Der Weg durch den Berg, a novel dealing with the building of the St Gotthard pass; another novel dealing with the advantages and disadvantages of modern technology the use of gas is Der Atem des Feuers In his later years Fontana devoted himself to theatre criticism. In he published Wiener Schauspieler, a portrayal of famous actors and actresses from Mitterwurzer to Maria Eis.
A selection of his writings, Mond im Abendrot, was published in In Kaspar Hausers Tod analogies to the situation in Germany in anti-terrorist campaign are indicated in the funeral of the famous foundling murdered in Forte is also the author of numerous plays for radio and television in which everyday subjects are treated with original use of these media. In Der Artist im Moment seines Absturzes a play within a play shows actors coming to terms with their roles as a German writer and his wife in exile in Paris in Das Muster is a chronicle novel on how two families, Italian and Polish, settled in Germany and became linked.
Frank, Bruno — Frank can be associated with the generation of middle-class novelists active between the wars Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, Hermann Broch who combined historical awareness, acute psychological insight and stylistic refinement and who were forced into emigration by the Nazis. Frank became a member of the Californian emigration close to Thomas Mann, the influence of whose Der Tod in Venedig is evident in the development to a tragic close of Politische Novelle , a A-Z 89 work inspired by the wish for Franco-German reconciliation and European unity.
Frank was drawn to proud solitary men with an Achilles heel and portrayed them with imagination and sympathy: His play Sturm im Wasserglas , about an unscrupulous small-town careerist, was adapted by James Bridie as Storm in a Teacup in Frank, Leonard — After training as a mechanic, Frank moved to Munich in , where he studied painting. It later appeared as the introductory story of the collection Der Mensch ist gut Another much-read Novelle was Die Ursache , which Frank dramatized in Frank returned to Germany after the war, and received the Kleist prize for Der Mensch ist gut.
In Frank escaped to Switzerland, France and finally America. He returned to Germany in , published his autobiographical novel in and the Deutsche Novelle two years later. Frank is best regarded as a novelist who, through his leftwing political sympathies, remained on the fringe of the expressionist movement; his narrative prose is, however, traditional in structure.
Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben five vols appeared in ; the Gesammelte Werke six vols in ; Die Summe in A companion to twentieth-century german literature 90 Franke, Manfred — Having written a doctoral dissertation on the figure of Schinderhannes in the German folk-tradition, Franke went on to produce a documentation in and a demythologizing biography in of the same Robin Hood figure. In aiming to demonstrate what is typical in this microscopic view of a particular case Franke can be associated with other documentary writers active in a similar spirit at the same time, especially Alexander Kluge.
Franke has also written Ein Leben auf Probe , the story of the struggle to survive of a child suffering from a rare illness, Bis der Feind kommt , an autobiographical novel on the last days of the Second World War viewed from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy cf. Frenssen, Gustav — Born in Dithmarschen, Frenssen became a pastor there before turning to writing novels. The farm is finally abandoned, but Uhl turns his attention to agricultural industry, builds dikes and continues to serve the community.
In the s Frenssen continued to write novels of life in Dithmarschen; in he was awarded an honorary doctorate at Heidelberg and became a member of the Dichter-Akademie.
Der Glaube der Nordmark is his most extreme statement of belief: Das Christentum ist alt und welk A-Z 91 geworden. Frenssen died, four weeks before the end of hostilities, in April Gesammelte Werke six vols were published in Zyklische Gedichte incorporated the non-specific imagery characteristic of certain modernist trends. A political dimension emerges in the laconic word play of Warngedichte and becomes dominant in und Vietnam und Fries, Fritz Rudolf — Born in Spain, the home of his maternal ancestors, Fries came with his family to Germany in , went to school in Leipzig until , studied there, was employed in the s at the GDR Academy of Sciences and then became a fulltime writer and translator.
Fries was one of the first GDR writers to inject a strong element of fantasy conveyed by means of interior monologue into a story which otherwise conforms to conventional realism, thus heralding a trend in GDR writing of growing importance during the s and s, when the influence of the German romantics became ever more apparent cf. They go no farther than West Berlin, A companion to twentieth-century german literature 92 from which they return to play the role expected of them by officialdom of disillusioned victims of Western intrigues aimed at undermining the GDR.
Verlegung eines mittleren Reiches is a futuristic fantasy set in a small town in the GDR after a nuclear war and Alexanders neue Welten provides a satirical confrontation of rationalism and imagination in the efforts of a scholar to get to grips with the colourful life of his friend in a report destined for the Academy of Sciences. Frisch, Max —91 Born in Zurich Frisch studied German literature, travelled extensively in Europe before the Second World War, studied architecture in Zurich, combined writing with the practice of this profession until , when he decided to devote himself exclusively to the former.
He has since been resident in Switzerland, Rome and New York. His plays may be divided into three groups: The last of these themes becomes central, especially in the novel Stiller , on the determination of the title-figure to preserve his independence from those formerly close to him and from the representatives of officialdom. Ein Spiel and Triptychon , radio version Homo Faber and Montauk offer more self-critical and existentially inspired examinations of human relationships, the former with overtones of Greek tragedy which add depth to a critique of A-Z 93 technological rationality, the latter in a manner close to autobiography.
Frischmuth, Barbara — Barbara Frischmuth visited Turkey in and Hungary in after studying the languages of those countries at the Institute of Interpreters in Graz. Although a member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung, to which also Handke, Kolleritsch, Gerhard Roth, Scharang have belonged, she has lived in Vienna since Die Klosterschule , the autobiographically inspired account of a boarding-school for girls run by nuns, and her early stories Amoralische Kinderklapper and Tage und Jahre concentrate on the experience of children and their relationships to adults.
The novel Das Verschwinden des Schattens in der Sonne , set in Istanbul, confronts an Austrian student with local conditions and traces her growing involvement with revolutionary activists which stops short of clear commitment.