Language courses
info@german-institute.orgBookclub for GCC Members
The German Cultural Center sponsors a monthly book club solely for our members in which selected German- language books in English translation are discussed. The club meets in the library of the German Cultural Center one Sunday each month from 3 p.m. to 4:30.
Participation in the book club is free of charge, but members are asked to obtain their own copies of the books which will be announced well in advance and should be available in public libraries, local bookstores, on Amazon.com or Amazon.de. We welcome our regular participants as well as new members to our club. Please feel free to come for any or all sessions that interest you.
Schedule of works to be discussed in upcoming meetings:
| January 29 | Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (Discussion will be conducted in English) |
| February 26 | Ein Regenschirm fuer diesen Tag (The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt) by Wilhelm Genazino (Discussion will be conducted in German) |
Past titles:
2011:
| Dec.: | no session |
| Nov.: | no session |
| Oct.: | Andorra (Max Frisch) |
| Sept.: | Night Train to Lisbon (Pascal Mercier) |
| Aug.: | no session |
| Jul.: | no session |
| Jun.: | The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Alina Bronsky) |
| May: | Therapy (Sebastian Fitzek) |
| Apr.: | After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next (Jana Hensel) |
| Mar.: | no session |
| Feb.: | America (Franz Kafka) |
| Jan.: | Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada) |
2010:
| Dec.: | no session |
| Nov.: | The Swarm: A Novel (Frank Schätzing) |
| Oct.: | The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (Wolf Haas) |
| Sept.: | Measuring the World: A Novel (Daniel Kehlmann) |
| Aug.: | no session |
| July: | Broken Glass Park (Alina Bronsky) |
| June: | no session |
| May: | no session |
| Apr.: | Homecoming (Bernhard Schlink) |
| Mar.: | Night Work (Thomas Glavinic) |
| Feb.: | The Wall Jumper (Peter Schneider) |
| Jan.: | The Appointment (Herta Müller) |
2009:
| Dec.: | no session |
| Nov.: | The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann) |
| Oct.: | The Trial (Franz Kafka) |
| Sep.: | The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll) |
| Aug.: | The Invention of the Curried Sausage (Uwe Timm) |
| July: | All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque) |
| June: | April in Paris (Michael Wallner) |
| Apr.: | Perfume (Patrick Süskind) |
| Mar.: | The Reader (Bernhard Schlink) |
If you are interested in joining the next scheduled discussion, please give us an RSVP by calling our main telephone number at +1 (404) 892-2388 or by e-mailing us at
info@german-institute.org in advance of the meeting.
