Both a gripping true story and a parable about creativity in a surveillance state, this is history writing at its finest.
Brilliantly edited and translated by the English poet Michael Hofmann, Ashes for Breakfast expertly introduces Germany's most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to American readers.
An ambitious bilingual anthology of postwar German poetry.
This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It reflects, on several levels, how he experienced communist East Germany and how it in turn experienced him. This fascinating book transports its readers back in time to the chilling Cold War days of yesteryear.
"Concrete" poetry from East and West Germany
This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A wonderfully evocative memoir. . .
Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin.
English teacher and befriends a fellow Anglophone expat and cabaret performer called Sally Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli. The story of their friendship is interspersed with musical numbers that seem to fall into two categories: songs ...
The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories. New York: New Directions, 1989. x, 144 pp. REV: Gerald Locklin, Studies in Short Fiction 30, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 199-200. 5171. ———. Warsaw Visitor; Tales from the Vienna ...