Literature

The fall of the Berlin Wall has also given the “Berlin novel” a new drive, means Susanne Ledanff. In an interview she says how the capital city is being reinvented in the literature of Germany.More ...

In the autumn of 1961, German publishing company dtv (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag) presented its first range of books at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Today, it is one of Germany’s biggest publishing houses.More ...

In 2010, Mirjam Pressler received the German Children’s Literature Award for her complete works.More ...

In the following you can find a link list to reviews of books recently acquried by the Goethe-Institut in 2010. This list accompanies a publication of selected reviews available at the Goethe-Institut Wellington. The reviews are in German.More ...

Olivier Le Lay has translated not only Peter Handke but also Elfriede Jelinek and Arno Geiger into French. In an interview, he explains why translation is a craft.More ...

The picture books of Helme Heine have fans young and old all over the world. The storyteller and illustrator talks about the elemental force of stories and the power of pictures.More ...

Thematically incarcerated in the dictatorial past of her homeland Romania, Herta Müller’s novels and poems live from the poetry of their German mother tongue.More ...