2002

Book Submissions 2002

Georg M. Oswald. All that counts, translated by Shaun Westside.
Grove Press
From the German: Alles was zählt, Carl Hanser-Verlag, 2000


Bernhard Schlink. Flights of Love, translated by John E. Woods.
Pantheon Books
From the German: Liebesfluchten, Diogenes-Verlag, 2000


Schalom Ben-Chorin. Brother Jesus, translated by Jared S. Klein and Max Reinhart.
The University of Georgia Press
Zur Erinnerung an Schalom Ben-Chorin


Herta Müller. The Appointment translated by Michael Hulse und Philip Boehm.
Metropolitan Books.
From the German: Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet, Rowohlt Verlag, 1999


W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz, translated by Anthea Bell.
Random House, New York.
From the German: Austerlitz,Hanser Verlag


Gila Lustiger. The Inventory, translated by Rebecca Morrison.
Arcade Publishing, New York.
From the German: Die Bestandsaufnahme, Aufbau Verlag, 1996
WDR-Sendung über Gila Lustiger


Doris Dörrie. Where Do We Go from Here?, translated by John Brownjohn.
Bloomsbury, New York
About the book (New Books in German).
From the German: Was machen wir jetzt?, Diogenes Verlag, 2001


Nike Wagner. The Wagners, The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty ,
translated by Ewald Osers and Michael Downes.
From the German: Wagner Theater, Insel-Verlag, 1998
Interview with Nike Wagner (in German)


Karl Kraus. Dicta and Contradicta,
translated by Jonathan McVity.
From the German: Sprüche und Wiedersprüche, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1986
Karl Kraus biography (in German)


Friedrich Nietzsche. The Pre-Platonic Philosophers,
translated by Greg Whitlock. University of Illinois Press.
The Pre-Platonic Philosophers reproduces the text of a lecture series delivered by the young Friedrich Nietzsche (then a philologist) at the University of Basel between 1872 and 1876.
Nietzsche Chronicle, Basel 1872 - 1876
From the German: Nietzsche's Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe .



Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric. The Love Letters,
edited by Jürgen Renn and Robert Schulmann, translated by Shawn Smith. Princeton University Press.
From the German: Am Sonntag küss ich Dich mündlich. Die Liebesbriefe 1897 - 1903. Piper, 1998


Bertold Brecht. Stories of Mr. Keuner,
translated by Martin Chalmers. City Lights Books, San Francisco.
From the German: Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1971


Veza Canetti. The Tortoises,
translated by Ian Mitchell. New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York.
From the German: Die Schildkröten, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1999


The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900,
edited and translated by Shawn C. Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
German originals: Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig, Hobrecker Sammlung, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Europäische Märchengesellschaft


Unica Zürn. Dark Spring,
translated by Caroline Rupprecht. Exact Change, Cambridge.
From the German: Dunkler Frühling, Merlin Verlag


Hans Küng. The Catholic Church,
translated by John Bowden. Modern Library Edition, New York.
From the German: Katholische Kirche - wohin, Piper


Oskar Kokoschka. Plays and Poems,
translated by Michael Mitchell. Ariadne Press, Riverside, California.
From the German: Das Schriftliche Werk, Hans Christians Verlag


Paul Scheerbart. The Gray Cloth,
translated by John Stuart. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From the German: Das graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß,
published by Mechthild Rausch, edition text + kritik
About Paul Scheerbart


Wilhelm Raabe. The Odin Field,
translated by Michael Ritterson. Camden House, Rochester, NY.
From the German: Das Odfeld


Arno Schmidt. The School for Atheists,
translated by John Woods. Green Integer, Los Angeles.
From the German: Die Schule der Atheisten, S. Fischer Verlag


Ernst-Wilhelm Händler. City with Houses,
translated by Martin Klebes. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL.
From the German: Stadt mit Häusern, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt


Rainer Maria Rilke. The Book of Hours,
translated by Annemarie S. Kidder. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL.
From the German: Das Stundenbuch


Henning Boetius. The Phoenix,
translated by John Cullen. Nan A. Talese, Doubleday.
From the German: Phönix aus Asche, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München


Peter Weiss. The New Trial,
translated by James Rolleston and Kai Duke University Press, Durham, NC..
The book is available at amazon.com
From the German: Der Neue Prozess, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. Main, 1984


Rainer Maria Rilke. New Poems,
A Revised Bilingual Edition, translated by Edward Snow.
North Point Press, New York ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux)..
The book is available at amazon.com
From the German: Neue Gedichte, Insel Verlag


Wim Wenders. On Film,
translated by Michael Hofmann. Faber and Faber ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
From the German: Emotion Pictures. Essays und Filmkritiken 1968-1984, Verlag dt. Autoren, 1986
The book is available at amazon.com


Lothar Machtan. Hidden Hitler,
translated by John Brownjohn. Basic Books, New York.
From the German: Hitlers Geheimnis. Das Doppelleben eines Diktators., A. Fest Verlag, 2001


Lutz Rathenow. The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow,
translated by Boria Sax and Ingeborg von Tannenberg. Xenos Books, Riverside, CA.
From the German: Sisyphos., Berlin Verlag, 1995


Wolfgang Koeppen. Death in Rome,
translated by Michael Hofmann. W.W. Norton, New York.
From the German: Der Tod in Rom., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1954


Wolfgang Koeppen. The Hothouse,
translated by Michael Hofmann. W.W. Norton, New York.
From the German: Das Treibhaus., Scherz & Goverts, 1953


Rüdiger Safranski. Nietzsche. A Philosophical Biography,
translated by Shelley Frisch. W.W. Norton, New York.
From the German: Nietzsche. Biographie seines Denkens., Carl Hanser, 2000


Robert Musil. The Confusions of Young Torless,
translated by Shaun Whiteside. Penguin Putnam, New York.
The book can be purchased at Barnes and Noble.
From the German: Die Verwirrung des Zöglings Törleß., Rowohlt Verlag, 1978


Thomas Mann. Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog,
translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, Mineola.
From the German: Tod in Venedig., S. Fischer, 1913
Thomas Mann biography (in German)


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