Recording of Bachmann
Hear Ingeborg Bachmann reading her poem 'Dunkles zu sagen' from her collection Die gestundete Zeit . (You will need Real Player).
Oxford
I am a stipendiary lecturer at three Oxford colleges. I teach German language and literature for the university courses below, as well as gi...
Lectures
German Poetry in the 20th Century Lecture series at the University of Oxford Hilary term 2006 Weeks 1,3,5,7, at the Taylorian, Mondays at 12...
Winter in Berlin
Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, Knaackstraße 97 (Kulturbrauerei), 10435 Berlin 7 Dezember 2005, 20 Uhr Von Preisen und ihren Trägern Die Lyrikpre...
Recording of Celan
Listen to Paul Celan's famous Holocaust poem 'Todesfuge', from the collection Mohn und Gedächtnis , read by the poet himself. (...
Bilingual Trakl presentation in London
Tuesday 8 November 2005, 7.00 pm The Austrian Cultural Forum invites you to a presentation To the silenced: Selected poems by Georg Trakl Wi...
British views of the GDR
Anyone in Berlin next week may be interested in an event entitled Views from abroad - Britische Perspektiven auf die DDR. It is being held o...
BRÜCKE - Die Geburt des deutschen Expressionismus
200 Meisterwerke aus internationalen Sammlungen 01.10.05 bis 15.01.06, Berlin Die Gründung der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" 1905, eines...
Schiller & Psychotherapy
A unique seminar, conducted by PROFESSOR NIGEL REEVES OBE, Professor of German, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Aston University, co-author (with Ken...
Frauenkirche, Dresden
The Frauenkirche has been re-consecrated in Dresden 60 years after being destroyed by Allied bombing. The charred remains of the church wer...
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2005
The 57th Frankfurt Book Fair has opened! It takes place from the 19th to the 23rd October, showcasing books, their authors, publishers, as w...
German Women's Writing
This term there is a public lecture series at the University of Cambridge on Landmarks in German Women’s Writing , which includes lectures o...
The Meaning of Tingo
German propensity for compounds creates many delightful instances where a single word requires an entire clause in English. Kummerspeck lit...
European Day of Languages
To mark the European Day of Languages today - a Council of Europe initiative to celebrate linguistic diversity and promote language learnin...
Sebald Lecture and Translation Prize
The Sebald Lecture commemorating W.G. Sebald , German novelist and founder of the British Centre for Literary Translation , will be given th...
Elections
The elections taking place on 18 September are the subject of much debate, including perspectives on gender , youth and a grand coalition ....
Translation
On literary translation Modern poetry in translation Rilke in translation Heym in translation Translation prize awarded for contemporary Ger...
100 words on a poem: No.9
Volker Braun’s poem ‘Hiroshima, 57 N.D.B.’ marks a ‘Treffpunkt’ – where rivers meet, where the barefoot shrine-visitor bows, and where the a...
Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse
The left-wing activist and student leader Rudi Dutschke was murdered in 1968. In his song "Drei Kugeln auf Rudi Dutschke", Wolf Bi...
September events in Berlin
06.9.2005 Lesung: Hans Magnus Enzensberger liest Wallace Stevens 21 Uhr Aus Anlaß des 50. Todestages von Wallace Stevens gibt Hans Magnus En...
59. Münstereifeler Literaturgespräch
Lyrik und Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert 16.9. bis 18.9.2005 Gedichte bedürfen des Vortrags und der Deutung. Zwei Lyrikerinnen und zwei Lyr...
Rilke in translation
There are now more than twenty American translations of the Duineser Elegien . Marjorie Perloff's interesting essay Reading Gass reading...
100 words on a poem: No.8
The physical capacities of sound are prominent in Durs Grünbein’s poem ‘Versprich mir’: an ‘ich’, for example, sounds within the words ‘vers...
Tip: literaturkritik.de
Literatrkritik.de offers free online access to monthly reviews with a literary focus. The issue with Schwerpunkt: Lyrik is of particular in...
Goethe on writing poetry
"Die Welt ist so groß und reich und das Leben so mannigfaltig, daß es an Anlässen zu Gedichten nie fehlen wird. Aber es müssen alles Ge...
POET: EVELYN SCHLAG
The poetry collections Einflüsterung nahe seinem Ohr. Gedichte. Vienna: Maioli, 1984. Ortswechsel des Herzens. Gedichte. Frankfurt a.M.: F...
Events
Büchnerpreis 2006 Celan seminar series Aldeburgh poetry festival Brecht poetry event in London Berlin lit festival Benn exhibition Trakl wor...
New Book
Available now Silke Arnold-de Simine (ed.) Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity Series: Cultural History and Lit...
Poets writing in German
Wilhelm Bartsch Marcel Beyer Wolf Biermann Thomas Böhme Volker Braun Heinz Czechowski Ulrike Draesner Kurt Drawert Hans Magnus Enzensberger ...
Introduction to late-20th-century poetry
Postwar Germany’s golden age of poetry began with Die sächsische Dichterschule in the mid-1960s, received new impulses from the Berlin Pren...
German poetry in the age of globalisation
In the age of globalisation, is there any evidence of German poems becoming increasingly transnational, of an outflow of German poetry into ...
Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture
Taking Lyrics Literally: Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture is an essay by Charles Altieri, which discusses how we might best lead conversa...
100 words on a poem: No.6
Günter Grass's poem 'Die Vogelscheuchen' voices the ruminations of a domestic gardener. The opening 'Ich weiß nicht, ob man ...
Figures from Greek myth used in German poetry
Ganymede (Ganymed) – epitome of male youthful beauty, son of the king of Troy, carried off by eagle of Zeus to be cupbearer Hyperion – tit...
Poetry and Change
Amidst life-altering events and shifts, poetry is well placed as a genre because of its immediacy. The way poetry has of setting our interna...
German history
German history according to the Bundestag : 'Wege - Irrwege - Umwege': Die Entwicklung der parlamentarischen Demokratie in Deutschla...
Expressionism
Concept A modernist mode, mainly in the second decade of the 20th century, perspective of angst and absurdity, disturbing visions of downfal...
Contemporary Germany
News from Berliner Zeitung News from Der Spiegel News from Deutsche Welle German public intellectual rankings German culture in the British ...
Recent German films
Sehnsucht Das Leben der Anderen Brinkmann film Berlin Film Festival 2006 Sophie Scholl Gegen die Wand Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei Halbe Tre...
GDR culture
Poesiealbum GDR poetry Early GDR iconography GDR posters Poster: 40 Jahre DDR Berlin Wall 17th June 1953 Exhibition: Mauersprünge Exhibition...
Holocaust, Nazism and the Second World War
Exhibition in London Exhibition in Berlin Monument in Berlin Suppressed music Europe after the rain Film: Die Mörder sind unter uns Film: Na...
Useful sources
New Books: Perlentaucher Texts: Projekt Gutenberg Catalogue: British Library Catalogue: Oxford University Catalogue: School of Advanced Stud...
Some of the best books about German poetry
Most of the scholarly work on poetry is published either as journal articles or as single chapters of edited books which have a non-poetry f...
100 words on a poem
Confining attention to one poem and imposing a word-limit of a hundred words is an exercise in promoting the poem as a complete work of art ...
Lieder
The German term is used in English to refer to Romantic art songs. The lied is a fusion of two arts, poetry and music, but one of those comp...
Undead Authors
Poets' names are a conventional and convenient way of referring to groups of works, but fundamental methodological problems arise where ...
On Reading
Literature is one of the essentials – not merely one of the appurtenances or amenities – of the good life, for it is not just the joys of re...
Poetological ideas
Some answers to the question: what is poetry? Poetry is “ die Antiware schlechthin ”, “the ultimate non-merchandise”. [Hans Magnus Enzensber...
100 words on a poem: No.1
Michael Wüstefeld’s poem ‘The great wave’ was published in Wende -Germany in 1990, written in the GDR in 1987, and is a response to a pictur...
Starter Kit
The Canon, or 50 essential poems to know Goethe – Willkommen und Abschied Goethe – Auf dem See Goethe – Ganymed Goethe – Prometheus Goethe ...
‘Freihäfen des Geistes’: Comments from Czechowski, Drawert, Grünbein, Hensel, Mensching
Below is the questionnaire I sent on 25 November 1998 to six German poets (Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski, Kurt Drawert, Durs Grünbein, Kers...
