Was bleibt?

German prose (East and West) since 1945

What remains of the abundant post-war output of literature by German writers?
What is still valid in retrospect?
What do people like to read again?
What are people still reading?

Heinrich Böll Günter Grass Irmtraud Morgner Martin Walser Johannes Bowrowski Peter Härtling Thomas Brasch Franz Fühmann Stefan Heym Jurek Becker Peter Weiss Gariele Wohmann Christoph Hein Hans Magnus Enzensberger Volker Braun Reiner Kunze Siegfried Lenz Christa Wolf Peter Schneider Walter Kempowski Patrick Süskind Uwe Johnson Stephan Hermlin Brigitte Reimann



The exhibition was originally conceived in 1995 as a touring exhibition of books and posters for public libraries in South America, Russia and Europe.