Deutsches Haus at NYU: Discussion about Happiness

In the context of “The PEN Voice Festival/ The Literary Mews” the German House of the New York University (NYU) presents at May 3rd a discussion about the search for happiness, under the motto “Running after Happiness or Running away from Bad Luck“.
“I think it is impossible to write a novel or screenplay without addressing [...]

NYC: The Neue Literatur Festival at the ACFNY

From February 22 until February 24 the annual “Festival Neue Literatur” brings six of the best up-and-coming German-language authors to New York, where they join well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings.
This year’s Festival kicks off with a discussion between all participating authors and Columbia University graduate students from the Department of Germanic Languages [...]

Book Tip: Joseph Roth: Ich zeichne das Gesicht der Zeit

Book is only available in German.
Heute ist er für uns der Autor von Klassikern wie “Radetzkymarsch” und “Hiob”. Doch viele seiner Zeitgenossen kannten ihn zunächst vor allem als Journalisten: Joseph Roth.
In dieser Ausgabe sind seine schönsten und wichtigsten journalistischen Texte voller hellsichtiger Wahrnehmungskraft und leidenschaftlicher Subjektivität chronologisch zusammengestellt, erstmals [...]

Book Tip: Stefan Zweig: Brief einer Unbekannten

Book is only available in German.
Unerhörte Begebenheiten versammelt dieser Band mit den schönsten Erzählungen Stefan Zweigs. Sein Interesse aber gilt vor allem dem inneren Aufruhr seiner Figuren, ihren Neurosen, ihrer Zerrissenheit.
Mit großer Empathie, aber auch mit gelassener Distanz zeichnet der Meisternovellist das Bild der ›guten‹ Gesellschaft zwischen Konvention und Rebellion.
Er [...]

Book Tip: Die deutsche Seele

Spiegel-Bestseller:  „Die deutsche Seele“ von Thea Dorn und Richard Wagner

Buchtipp von Eva-Maria Manz
Sie haben sich mit dem Bundeskleingartengesetz und den deutschen Bier- und Wurstsorten beschäftigt, mit den Weimarer Verfassungstexten und den literarischen Werken von Ludwig Tieck – die Schriftstellerin Thea Dorn und ihr Kollege Richard Wagner gehen in ihrem gemeinsamen Buch “Die deutsche Seele” allem [...]

May 3 & May 4: Nobel Laureate Herta Müller at PEN World Voices

On the occasion of PEN World Voices and a US tour featuring discussions and readings from The Hunger Angel (Metropolitan Books), the new translation by Philip Boehm of her 2009 novel, Atemschaukel, Romanian-born, German-language author Herta Müller makes her first visit to the United States in a decade.
Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, [...]

New Books in German

The Goethe Institut is very pleased to announce that the Spring 2012 issue of New Books in German is now available online.
This marks the 31st edition of the publication dedicated to introducing the best of contemporary literature from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. With a special focus on Berlin, this issue introduces NBG’s new ‘Literary Capital’ [...]

New German-language literature comes to New York and New Haven

From February 11 to 13, 2011, the second “Festival Neue Literatur” brings six of the “best up-and-coming German-language authors” to New York, where they will join U.S. authors Francine Prose and Rivka Galchan in a series of conversations and readings.
This year’s German-language participants are: Dorothee Elmiger(Switzerland), Andrea Grill (Austria), Julia Schoch (Germany), Antje Rávic Strubel (Germany), [...]

Books. DVDs, CDs, & Calendars by Berlinica Publishing

For Berlin Fans
New! Books. DVDs, CDs, & Calendars by Berlinica Publishing
Wallflower – A Novel by Holly-Jane Rahlens
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, a sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis [...]

German author Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke, born in West Germany, moved to the US in 2005 and still writes in German. The successful author of the “Inkworld” trilogy returns with a new book and a new creative partner.

Read the LA Times story:
The writer of the Inkworld trilogy returns with a fresh work, ‘Reckless,’ and a creative partner, Lionel [...]

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