Literature

Bookclub 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.More ...
Christa Wolf in the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, 2008. © dpa/picture alliance

The GDR’s Moral Arbiter – Christa Wolf – has died (12/02/2011)

Whether Divided Heaven or Cassandra: her books are part and parcel of the canon of German literature. Christa Wolf died on 1 December, 2011 following a long illness. She was 82.More ...
Herta Müller; © Annette Pohnert / Carl Hanser Verlag

Poetry and Labor Camp: Literature Nobel Laureate Herta Müller

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 ...

Goethe-Institut Translation Programme

Programme for Promoting the Translation of German Books into a Foreign Language

Literature in Germany

Articles and Links on Selected Topics