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You're Not Dying
Helene Wesendahl wakes from a post-aneurysm coma paralysed, speechless and devoid of memory. With each re-learned movement, remembered word and returned fragment of forgotten biography, a life comes to light that she scarcely recognises, confronting her with a strange woman who was once herself. Through the awakening heroine's eyes, we observe her own body (which seems to lead a life of its own as it laboriously undergoes rehabilitation), her fellow-patients, nurses and doctors, the reactions of a complicated family, and the sacrificial commitment of her husband. Helene's crisis deepens with the gradual realisation that, owing to a passion for a mysterious woman, she was intending to leave this man who now cares so much ... In 2009 You're not dying was the triumphant winner of the German Book Prize, pipping to the post the recent Nobel Prize-winner Hertha Muller, who was also shortlisted. Schmidt's writing career is littered with multiple prestigious prizes for both her poetry and prose.
It's Over. Don't Go There.
These are tales of small, damaged lives that unfold towards sometimes deadly ends. Desolate or downright funny, often they are about women: single and lonely, or ordinary and kind, or who neglect their children, or whose children abuse them. Immigrants, the homeless, the sexually abused, the suicidal - these and other aliens populate a 'left behind' region where a sense of powerlessness holds sway. Gay, straight, or transitioning, most of Schmidt's characters are jobless, and mostly middle-aged, or else very old: a senile paedophile grandmother; another whose stinking belches accompany the wartime trauma she hands down to her offspring, for they too must suffer. Kathrin Schmidt draws us alongside people limited or trapped by circumstances imposed on them, whether by the socialist regime or the one that came after, her stories set variously in the twilight hour of the German Democratic Republic and the post-1989 decade when the GDR was subsumed into the Germany of today. All is not bleak, for adversity generates human kindness and heart-warming responses, even love affairs and comedy. But Schmidt makes her point.
Twenty Poems
Kathrin Schmidt is a highly-respected poet in her native Germany but until now unknown in the UK. Schmidt is a staunch feminist, and her poetry deals with globalisation and migration seen through the lens of politics. Sue Vickerman's skilful translation and commentary do justice to Schmidt's distinctive poetic style.
Practical Handbook for the Marketing of Foreign Investment Funds in Germany
This practical handbook gives a comprehensive legal overview of regulatory issues for non-German investment companies which intend to sell the units of their investment funds in Germany. It provides useful legal information for entering the German market. The authors explain the conditions in which non-German investment products come within the scope of the German Investment Act (regulated investment funds). This book assists the readers in distinguishing between the strict boundaries of private placements and the wider rules of public distribution. Readers are provided with a legal overview in relation to the private placement of regulated investment funds, including hedge funds. This book ...
The Wounded Self
Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.
Transitions
This volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first century, such as the adaptation to evolving political and social conditions in a newly united Germany; globalisation, the dissolution of borders, and the changing face of Europe; dramatic shifts in the meaning of national, ethnic, sexual, gender, religious, and class identities; rapid technological advancement and the revolutionary power of new media, which in turn have radically altered the connections between public and private, personal and political. In their literature, the authors presented here reflect on the notion of transition and offer some unique interventions on its meaning in the contemporary era.
Globalisation, Commodification and Cultural Production in Africa
This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study. The author provides coverage of, and insights into, such themes as cultural globalisation, commodification, the global creative economy, culture and development, international relations and contemporary cultural production in Sierra Leone within the context of local and global flows of people, media, images, technologies, finance and ideas. Combining the analysis of theatre in Sierra Leone and its aesthetics with its policy, structural and institutional context, this book highlights in much detail and nuance the interconnectedness between the micro- and the macro-levels ...
Du stirbst nicht
Vom Hirnschlag erwacht – die atemberaubende Geschichte einer Heilung Helene Wesendahl weiß nicht, wie ihr geschieht: Sie findet sich im Krankenhaus wieder, ohne Kontrolle über ihren Körper, sprachlos, mit Erinnerungslücken. Ihr Weg zurück ins Leben konfrontiert sie mit einer fremden Frau, die doch einmal sie selbst war. Kathrin Schmidt packt ihre Leser diesmal durch die Beschränkung, und zwar im wörtlichen Sinne. Mit den Augen ihrer erwachenden Heldin blicken wir in ein Krankenzimmer, auf andere Patienten, das Pflegepersonal und den eigenen Körper, der plötzlich ein Eigenleben zu führen scheint. Und wir erleben die mühsamen Reha-Maßnahmen mit, die Reaktionen der Familie, den au...
Contemporary German Fiction
These accessible and informative essays explore the central themes and contexts of the best writers working in Germany today.
Die Gunnar-Lennefsen-Expedition
Josepha Schlupfberg and her great-grandmother, Therese, struggle to make ends meet in a small East German town in the 1970s. When Josepha finds she is pregnant after a one-night stand with an African student, she wants to provide her child with a family history. She and Therese embark on a series of imaginary sorties in their living-room, armed with cognac, cheese rolls, a jar of pickles and a box of old photographs and assorted memorabilia. They name this adventure, which lasts the nine months of Josepha's pregnancy, the Gunnar Lennefsen Expedition after an imaginary Arctic explorer. The two women relive their family story on a screen onto which Therese can project her memories, each triggered by something from the box.
