Uwe Timm
“Absent and yet present he has accompanied me through my childhood, in the sorrow of the mother, the doubts of the father, the overtones between the parents. It was told…
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Uwe Timm
“Absent and yet present he has accompanied me through my childhood, in the sorrow of the mother, the doubts of the father, the overtones between the parents. It was told…
Esther Kinsky
Old factories, run-down houses, but also unexpected strips of wilderness: a landscape on the border between city and country, populated by people who are out of order, out of sync.
Markus Werner
The young divorce lawyer Clarin is looking forward to an undisturbed Whitsun weekend in his Tessin holiday home, where he would like to write an essay for a professional journal.
Marko Pogačar
All existence is subject to an element of coincidence. At the point of the intersection of space and time, of what is social and what is personal, only one opportunity…
Stanka Hrastelj
A girl hides her hands because she would not like her boyfriend to see her scratched hands, scratched by cats that she had to drown. Two teenagers cut their veins,…
Svetislav Basara
After his death, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria dictates from his grave his views on the Sarajevo assassination and its causes and consequences to his personal secretary Ferdinand Berchtold. With…
Axel Honneth
In his latest book, Axel Honneth dissects the multi-facetted idea of “recognition” from various perspectives that have abounded in Europe since the beginning of Modernity. His focus lies on three…
Elfriede Jelinek
For the first time, Jelinek puts the story of the Jewish part of her family into writing. Personal, official details are interspersed with accounts of the fate of relatives who…
Arno Geiger
Lukas says goodbye to Berlin. Many things went awry there and so he spends his last night before going back to Vienna on a sofa bed of a deadbeat waitress.
Anne Weber
Anne Beaumanoir: Born in 1923 in Brittany, raised in humble circumstances, already a member of the communist Résistance as a teenager, rescuer of two Jewish youths (for which she will…
Lidija Dimkovska
Lidija Dimkovska’s poems can be dramatic and perceptive, funny and serious at the same time. Nothing is too unimportant or unpoetic to spark a powerful image of association: a nail…
An anthology of contemporary German poetry selected by translator Manuela Klenke and Joachim Umlauf, director of the Goethe-Institut in Bucharest. The introduction states that although an anthology is meant to…