POET: KURT DRAWERT
The poetry collections Frühjahrskollektion: Gedichte . Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2002. Wo es war: Gedichte . Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1996....
POET: STEFFEN MENSCHING
The poetry collections Poesiealbum 146 . Berlin: Neues Leben, 1979. Erinnerung an eine Milchglasscheibe: Gedichte . Halle, Leipzig: mdv, 19...
Anthologies
A few recommended anthologies of German poetry: Menschheitsdämmerung: Ein Dokument des Expressionismus. Berlin: Rowohlt, 1993. Ich komm von...
POET: WOLFGANG HILBIG
The poetry collections abwesenheit . Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1979. "berlin. sublunar." neue deutsche literatur 42.5 (1994): 7. B...
POET: DURS GRÜNBEIN
The poetry collections (all Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp unless otherwise stated) Den teuren Toten: 33 Epitaphe . 1994. Erklärte Nacht: Gedichte...
POET: VOLKER BRAUN
The poetry collections Auf die schönen Possen: Gedichte. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2005. Die Zickzackbrücke: Ein Abrisskalender . Halle: m...
Conference: INTERACTIONS
Interactions: Contemporary German Literature’s Dialogue with other Arts organised by Dr. Ruth J. Owen and Prof. Frank Finlay University of L...
Recommendation
Recommended special issue of Merkur on contemporary German poetry, which includes poems from the late 1990s by Rainer Kirsch, Volker Braun ...
Mini CV
RUTH J. OWEN ( M.A., M.St., D.Phil.) Postdoctoral Posts 2007- Lecturer in German at Cardiff University 2006 Stipendiary Lecturer in German a...
RESEARCH HISTORY
My interest in German literature crosses the centuries and covers all genres; I teach literature by numerous canonical authors such as Lessi...
FILM REVIEW: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
aka The Edukators (currently being shown in UK cinemas) Film drama about a trio of gute Menschen in the New Germany The biblical title of t...
London
In the summer term 2005 I am a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (University of London). In the last...
Magazine feature article
· ‘Which Airport Next? Ruth J. Owen follows the trail of contemporary German poets’, new books in german, ed. Astrid Kurth (2003) This feat...
MONOGRAPH ON GERMAN POETRY
The Poet’s Role: Lyric Responses to German Unification by Poets from the GDR by Ruth J. Owen Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Liter...
