New book
New German Literature: Life Writing and Dialogues with the Arts ed. by Frank Finlasy, Julian Preece and Ruth J. Owen (2007) This is a coll...
Poetikdozentur
Kiel, 19.11.-22.11.2007 Im Sommersemester 1996 wurde am Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur und Medien eine Poetikdozentur eingerichtet, ...
Podcasting Goethe
A podcasting project is being developed at the University of Warwick, which includes texts and recorded readings of Goethe's poetry.
Film Review: Sehnsucht
This 2006 film, by Valeska Griesbach, evokes a provincial backwater where the pace of life is stultifying. The main protagonist goes throug...
New Poetry
Bella triste 17: Sonderausgabe zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartslyrik: Gedichte, Szenen, Meinungen This special issue contains poems and poe...
Die Macht der Sprache
Das Festival "Die Macht der Sprache" feierte das Deutsche und die kulturelle Vielfalt Drei Tage, über 60 Veranstaltungen. Das Fest...
Film Review: Das Leben der Anderen
The German film Das Leben der Anderen won the best-foreign-language-film Oscar this year. It was directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmar...
Lyrikkritik
An interesting website for new German poetry, poetics and (under 'Autoren') reviews of new poetry collections is lyrikkritik.de . Br...
Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair is now on, from 22 to 25 March. Its aim is to enhance publicity for new books. Publishing houses, authors, readers and...
Work in progress
a) as author The Ophelia myth in German culture - conference paper - anthology of Ophelia texts with co-authored introduction - 'The Op...
The German film that won the best-foreign-language-film Oscar this year
Und der Oscar geht nach... Deutschland. Das Drama " Das Leben der Anderen " (2006) von Regisseur Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ...
Call for Papers
German Poetry, including translation We welcome 20-minute papers on any period and all aspects of German-language poetry. Send 200-word abst...
Poetry Translation Prize
TRANSLATE A POEM FROM ANY LANGUAGE INTO ENGLISH The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2007 is up and running! Any British resident or British citi...
