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...
