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Killing Happiness
German author Friedrich Ani combines deep sorrow, human darkness, and breath-taking tension in his latest crime novel. Happiness is extinguished completely one cold November night when eleven-year-old Lennard Grabbe fails to return home. Thirty-four days later, he is found to have been murdered, and former inspector Jakob Franck, the protagonist of Friedrich Ani's previous novel The Nameless Day, is entrusted with delivering the most horrible news any parent could ever dream of, setting off a chain reaction of grief among family and friends. As the special task force is unable to make any progress in the case and the family is unable to deal with the loss, Franck--driven by the need to bring...
The Nameless Day
Now in paperback, the thrilling, psychological tale of a twenty-year-old cold case and the detective committed to solving it. After years on the job, police detective Jakob Franck has retired. Finally, the dead--with all their mysteries--will no longer have any claim on him. Or so he thinks. On a cold autumn afternoon, a case he thought he'd long put behind him returns to his life--and turns it upside down. The Nameless Day tells the story of that twenty-year-old case, which began with Franck carrying the news of the suicide of a seventeen-year-old girl to her mother, and holding her for seven hours as, in her grief, she said not a single word. Now her father has appeared, swearing to Franck that his daughter was murdered. Can Franck follow the cold trail of evidence two decades later to see whether he's telling the truth? Could he live with himself if he didn't? A psychological crime novel certain to thrill fans of Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo, The Nameless Day is a masterpiece, a tightly plotted story of contemporary alienation, loss, and violence.
Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit
The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory. Some of the most exciting research and teaching in the field of German Studies is being done on "genre fiction," including detective fiction, science fiction, and what is often called "poplit," to name but a few. Such non-canonical literature has long been marginalized by the German tradition of Bildung and the disciplinary practice of German literary studies (Germanistik). Even today, when the examination of non-canonical texts is well established and uncontroversial in other academic contexts, such texts remain unders...
The Skin of the System
The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernitythat of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In this way, the study elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? To approach this question, Robinson turns to the remarkable writer Franz Fühmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it means to transform from fascism to socialism. Fühmann's own serial loyalties to Hitler and Stalin inform his existential meditations on change and difference. By placing Fühmann's politically alert and intensely personal literary inventions in the context of an inquiry into radical social rupture, The Skin of the System wrests the brutal materiality of twentieth-century socialism from attempts to provincialize both its desires and its failures as antimodern ideological follies.
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The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre. This volume aims to establish a framework for further research into this rich field. The introduction and six thematic chapters discuss theories of the short-story form, literary-aesthetic questions, and key trends in the twenty-first century. Seven chapters on significant literary figures from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland then offer a range of theoretical and thematic approaches to individual stories and collections. Finally, two original translations showcase contemporary short-story writing in German.
Measuring the Sadness
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Fernuniversiteat Hagen, 2008.
Contemporary German Crime Fiction
A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contribu...
Der öffentliche Autor
Wenn ein Rockgitarrist von einer Kokospalme purzelt, wie 2010 Keith Richards, wird seine Genesung jubelnd medial gefeiert. Literaten hingegen haben es schwer - für werbewirksame Kapriolen gelten sie als nicht realitätstüchtig genug. Was also bleibt den Dichtern? Sich medienwirksam intellektuell und sprach-artistisch ins Rampenlicht zu manövrieren! Carolin John-Wenndorf entwickelt eine längst überfällige Theorie schriftstellerischer Selbstinszenierung: von einem Werkzeugkasten zur Analyse visueller, verbaler und performativer schriftstellerischer Handlungen, einem Gang durch die Kulturgeschichte dichterischer Selbstinszenierung - von Walther von der Vogelweide bis Charlotte Roche - sowie einem Katalog universeller Inszenierungsstrategien bis hin zu einer kleinen Dichter-Typologie. Es ist ein Grundlagenwerk über die Selbstdarstellung von Autoren aus historischer, diskursanalytischer und repräsentationskritischer Sicht.
Selected Poems 1981-2015
This book comprises selected poems by Anton G. Leitner in English translation. Leitner was born in Munich in 1961. He lives and works in Wessling, Southern Bavaria. So far, he has published eleven collections of his poems. He is editor-in-chief of "Das Gedicht", one of the main magazines for contemporary German poetry, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017. He was the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including the Tassilo Award for developing culture from "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (2016). In 2015, he was elected Poet Laureate of Bavaria.
