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To Clear the Air
Life comes to an end, but memory is forever. A moving epitaph for a lost loved one, or the menacing taunt of a vengeful killer? When a man is found brutally murdered in the woods, those words come to haunt the small German village of Merklen. And homicide inspector Peter Böhm faces the daunting task of unraveling a mystery with deep and twisted roots--in a town where doors stay closed, people stay silent, and death may have the final word. But the case is just one more uphill battle for Böhm, who's already grappling with a son's death and a marriage on the edge. When a second grisly murder occurs and the same sinister death notice appears, fear spreads that a killer thirsting for justice will continue to spill bad blood. Now, for Böhm and his team of detectives, the only way forward may be back--decades into the past, where a horrific secret was buried...but will no longer lie silent.
Silence
August 1939: six young people band together in the face of war-torn Germany, their friendship about to be put on trial as they land on opposite sides of World War II. Flash forward to November 1997: Robert Lubisch brings the group back together for the first time in decades to investigate a tragic family secret. Trust is shattered when one of the friends turns up murdered, leaving all of them guilty until proven innocent. Winner of the 2012 Deutscher Krimi Prize for best crime novel.
Violinisten
Maj 1948. Den verdensberømte og feterede russiske violinist Ilja Grenko skal rejse udenlands for at spille koncert. Det har han gjort før, men denne gang ansøger han om at få familien med. Det er kold krig, under Stalin, og mange arrestationer af kunstnere og politiske opponenter terroriserer Moskva. Nogle uger senere meddeler myndighederne Grenkos hustru, at Grenko nok er stukket af, men aldrig nået frem til Wien. 60 år senere beslutter hans egenrådige barnebarn Sascha trods mange advarsler at forsøge at finde ud af, hvad der blev af den ufatteligt værdifulde violin, stradivarien fra 1727, som tilhører familien. Men også hvad der blev af hans bedstefar … Det bliver en grusom rejse østpå fra Tyskland til Rusland, hvor mange forskellige interesser, inklusive den russiske mafia, lægger ham blodige hindringer i vejen. For ‘Den der bryder tavsheden’ (Klim 2014) modtog forfatteren den største tyske krimi-pris Deutscher Krimi Preis. For ‘Violinisten’ fik hun i 2015 Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.
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, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapter...
Literature After Fukushima
Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster – the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of key works in the expanding corpus of 3.11 literature the book explores how the disaster—both its immediate aftereffects and its continued unfolding—reframed discourse in various areas such as trauma studies, eco-criticism, regional identity, food safety, civil society, and beyond. Individual chapters discuss aspects of these perspectival shifts, tracing the reshaping of Japanese identity after the triple disaster. The ...
Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan
This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Mitten in der Stadt
Mitten in Kleves Innenstadt ereignet sich ein skrupelloses Verbrechen. Drei Männer durchbrechen mit einem Geländewagen die Scheibe eines Juweliergeschäfts und erbeuten wertvollen Schmuck. Als einer der Hauptverdächtigen tot aufgefunden wird, ermittelt das Team um Hauptkommissar Victor Grube in alle Richtungen und stößt dabei auf die tragische Geschichte der Familie Koller. Wie hängt dieses unheilvolle Schicksal mit dem Fall zusammen?
Den der bryder tavsheden
Under en oprydning i sin nys afdøde fars gamle papirer finder Robert Lubisch et SS-legitimationskort og et fotografi af en smuk, ukendt kvinde. Men faderen havde jo bare været almindelig tysk soldat? Robert Lubisch forsøger at finde ud af sammenhængen på en rejse tilbage til egnen, hvor faderen voksede op i nazitiden, og en grusom historie om forelskelse og svigt, stikkeri og mord dukker frem af fortiden. At Robert har vækket en tiger, går op for ham, da et nyt mord bliver begået. Og en fantastisk forviklingshistorie ændrer billedet af faderen for altid. "Vinteren 1942/43 var iskold. Den gamle Höver hentede Jurij og Fedir ind i huset om aftenen og lod dem sove på køkkenbænken. D...
Wer das Schweigen bricht
August 1939: Sechs junge Menschen geben sich das Versprechen, füreinander da zu sein. Während der Nazi-Zeit wird ihre Freundschaft auf eine harte Bewährungsprobe gestellt. Denn Verrat wird mit dem Tod bestraft. Jahrzehnte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entdeckt Robert Lubisch im Nachlass seines Vaters, einem Industriemagnaten der Nachkriegszeit, das Foto einer attraktiven Frau und einen Wehrpass, ausgestellt auf einen ihm unbekannten Mann. Was hat das alles mit seinem Vater zu tun? Robert macht sich auf die Suche und stößt dabei auf eine Journalistin, die sofort eine große Story ahnt und bereit ist, dafür auch den Ruf seines Vaters zu opfern. Doch noch bevor sie Robert etwas mitteilen kann, wird sie grausam ermordet. Robert ist entsetzt. Welche alten Wunden hat er mit seinen Nachforschungen wieder aufgerissen.
The Art of Silence and Human Behaviour
This book examines the phenomenon of silence in relation to human behaviour from multiple perspectives, drawing on psychological and cultural-philosophical ideas to create new, surprising connections between silence, quiet and rest. Silence and being quiet are present in everyday life and in politics, but why do we talk about it so rarely? Silence can be cathartic and peaceful, but equally oppressive and unbearable. In the form of communication, we keep secrets to protect ourselves and others, but on the other hand subjects can be silenced with dictatorial posturing - a communicative display of power – and something can be literally ‘hushed up’ that needs to be disclosed. In unique and...
