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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 ...
Reader at Frankfurt Book Fair; © Frankfurter Buchmesse/Peter Hirth

Continuity and Change: The Book Market in Germany

The eBook revolution has as yet failed to materialize and printed books are still thriving even in these difficult times. Nonetheless, there are signs of dramatic changes on the book market.More ...
Anne Birkenhauer at work. © private

Of the Translator’s Craft – An Interview with Anne Birkenhauer

In October 2011 in Frankfurt, Anne Birkenhauer was awarded the Jane Scatcherd Prize for her translation of the novel To the End of the Land.More ...
Judith Schalansky and Peggy Mädler; © Susanne Schleyer/Andreas Rost

End of the Wenderoman – The GDR as a Space for Stories

There are novels that are so full of the world that it is unimportant where they take place: Peggy Mädler and Judith Schalansky represent a sober form of literature about the GDR.More ...

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Discussion
02/01/2012, 7pm
Rudolph Herzog in conversation with Ari Kelman, Stanford University
presented by the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
JCCSF
San Francisco
Children's Matinée
03/04/2012
Children's Matinée: Storyteller Katharina Ritter
Goethe-Institut
San Francisco
Reading
02/23/2012
Reading and Discussion: Marica Bodrožić and Gregor Hens
Goethe-Institut
San Francisco

Goethe-Institut Translation Programme

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

Literature in Germany

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