On Sunday 24 November the European Literature Days 2019 drew to a close with a literary and musical matinée and…
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Joining in with the Reconstruction of Confidence Simone Hirth’s debut novel Lied über die geeignete Stelle für eine Notunterkunft is a…
In January, when Joachim Schnerf published his novel Cette nuit – about Salomon, a Holocaust survivor, who must celebrate Jewish Passover…
How do war, displacement and dislocation change a person? How can someone gain a foothold again where he has arrived…
The skyscraper as a microcosm: In The Skyscraper. 102 Storeys of Life German comic book writer Katharina Greve introduces one of…
Some books slip through the back door into their readers’ minds. Some books don’t need to make showy, grand gestures,…
Iliya Troyanov was born in Sofia in 1965. Aged six, he and his family fled to Germany where they were…
Evoking a Betrayed World Imre Oravecz’s third volume of his trilogy A rög gyermekei (Die Kinder der Scholle) has concluded an enterprise that continued…
What reality lies behind the virtual medium of the Internet, and what would our world be without the ‘www’? Swiss…
An Anti-Berlin Lifestyle Novel Sonnenkönige (“Sun Kings”) by Marianne Jungmaier is her second novel after Das Tortenprotokoll. In-between are the short stories Sommernomaden.…
Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1912 in Reading; died in 1975 in Penn) was overlooked as a writer for a long while,…
In the acclaimed film Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky, the director uses a a metaphor of a mystical Zone to which one…
