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 ...
In view of the digital revolution, many critics in Germany again see the end of the Gutenberg galaxy as imminent. The numbers, however, show that the medium book, like the German book market, is still alive and going strong.More ...
For the past 150 years, the house where Friedrich Schiller was born has been home to a variety of exhibitions. The latest, which opened in February 2009, documents the history of Schiller’s influence, thereby adding a further chapter to it.More ...
“I’m not a story-teller”, says Axel Scheffler, one of the most successful German children’s book authors. He draws pictures, and is a man of few words. As he shows in an interview with Goethe.de.More ...
He is one of the most significant and most frequently honoured contemporary German writers. He has made headlines again and again – not just with his literary texts, but also with his political remarks. Martin Walser was 80 years old on 24 March 2007.More ...
