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Hannes or The foreign Land
No elves, no wizards, but unfortunately no noble knights either. Just people like you and me. A chance encounter. Two men in advanced age. What begins as reminiscing about youth leads to an unresolved, deep conflict. We are all the architects of our own happiness. But what if we never learned to forge? This book is not a search for blame, but for the root causes of deeply felt ruptures in a person's life. "Hannes was an idiot. Those aren't my words. He said that about himself once. Perhaps not in the pathological sense, he added. He belonged more to the inconspicuous of his kind, after all, he could still move freely among us. In essence, Hannes even possessed a sort of charm that made him appear likable to the majority of people in his surroundings. Even as a child, he was quite popular among older ladies. They appreciated him for his respect and the politeness he showed them. He tried to win them over, just as he later did with his classmates and then with his friends. That was his way of interacting with people. But from a young age, he had a deficit."
Return to Mycenae
I go through time again. I return to Mycenae. Questions remained unanswered. I want answer for her. I won't find her here and now. I have to dare to travel again, to where the past is still unchanged, untouched by knowledge and fashion. There I want to see and hear the people whose fate I can only guess at. Names come to mind: Clytemnestra – husband murderer, adulteress! Other names follow: Iphigenia, Electra, Oresthes and Agamemnon too. We heard their stories and fragments are quickly at hand, which is all too easy to dismiss. These stories are old. Told often and over and over again in the same way: the ax murderer, her lover and the irreconcilably grieving daughter. Why so? Why don't we...
The Gods Do Not Play Dice
Do the old myths still have something to tell us? What experiences could the figures from the Trojan War give us today? The author wanted to know. He set out to talk to them. You answered his questions. He was able to gain prominent conversation partners, such as Cassandra, Penthesilea and Odysseus. Stay tuned for the answers and immerse yourself in the magical world of Greek mythology. This book “The Gods Don’t Roll Dice” takes you into fictional dialogues with characters and creatures who are ready to share their stories and their lives with you. Excerpt: “Cassandra” “Instead the king’s anger turned against you. As if your predictions had triggered everything that followed. H...
Hannes or The foreign Land
A chance acquaintance. Two men of advanced age. What begins as childhood memories leads to an unresolved, deep conflict. We are all the creators of our own happiness. But what if we haven't learned to forge? This book is not a search for guilt, but for the causes of deeply felt breaks in a person's life. Excerpt: "Hannes was an idiot. These are not my words. He himself once said that about himself. Maybe not in a pathological sense, he added. He is one of the more inconspicuous of his kind, after all he is still allowed to move freely among us. Basically, Hannes even had something like charm that made him seem likeable to the majority of people around him. Even as a child he was quite popula...
The Portrayal of Jews in Gdr Prose Fiction
This volume is the first comprehensive single study of Jewish themes in any of the post-1945 German literatures. It presents literature on Jewish themes by Jewish and non-Jewish authors in the cultural, social and political context of the Soviet Zone/GDR during the entire 45 years of its history from 1945 to 1990. It offers a brief history of Jews in the GDR, before looking, in four chronologically ordered chapters, at the history of publishing on Jewish themes in the GDR. Some 28 texts by 19 different authors, including Anna Seghers, Stephan Hermlin, Arnold Zweig, Franz Fühmann, Johannes Bobrowski, Jurek Becker, Stefan Heym, Günter Kunert, Christa Wolf and Helga Königsdorf, are then sing...
Writing in Red
In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said. Its chief task was ideological: creating a socialist and antifascist culture. But it was also supposed to advance its members' professional interests and enable them to act as public intellectuals with a say in the direction of socialism. Many writers demanded that it pursue this second function as well, which brought it into conflict with the SED. This book explores how the union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR society with consequences well be...
Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008
A comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945.
Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010
"This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture." -- Book cover.
Hannes Or The Foreign Land
No elves, no wizards, but unfortunately no noble knights either. Just people like you and me. A chance encounter. Two men in advanced age. What begins as reminiscing about youth leads to an unresolved, deep conflict. We are all the architects of our own happiness. But what if we never learned to forge? This book is not a search for blame, but for the root causes of deeply felt ruptures in a person's life. "Hannes was an idiot. Those aren't my words. He said that about himself once. Perhaps not in the pathological sense, he added. He belonged more to the inconspicuous of his kind, after all, he could still move freely among us. In essence, Hannes even possessed a sort of charm that made him appear likable to the majority of people in his surroundings. Even as a child, he was quite popular among older ladies. They appreciated him for his respect and the politeness he showed them. He tried to win them over, just as he later did with his classmates and then with his friends. That was his way of interacting with people. But from a young age, he had a deficit."
The Gods Do Not Play Dice
Do the old myths still have something to tell us? What experiences could the figures from the Trojan War convey to us today? The author wanted to find out. He set out to talk to them. They answered his questions. He was able to win over prominent interlocutors such as Cassandra, Penthesilea and Odysseus. You can look forward to the answers and immerse yourself in the magical world of Greek mythology. This book "The Gods do not play dice" takes you into fictional dialogs with figures and creatures who are willing to share their stories and their lives with you. Homer's "Illiad" is considered humanity's first war report. However, he did not always clearly separate what had been handed down fro...
