Literature

Translating comics
Puns in speech bubbles

What make translating a comic unique? What kind of issues do translators face? Five translators talk about what they do every day.

Museum for Comics and the Language Arts
Duckburg on the banks of the Saale

Since 2015, the Museum of Comics and the Language Arts in Schwarzenbach has explored all aspects of the art of the comic. It pays tribute in particular to long-standing German translator of the Mickey Mouse comic books, Erika Fuchs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Driven by curiosity and the lust for life

He was a poet and a lawyer, theatre director and naturalist, politician and traveller – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an all-rounder and his interests varied greatly. His aim was always – to make the best of life.

Frankfurt Book Fair
Read and work

As the saying goes: Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. As the Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off, Christoph Schröder takes a somewhat wistful look back at the good old book fair days – and though he’s looking forward to this year’s fair, his hopes are pinned on the next. 

Book blogs
Literature fans take over Instagram

Instagram is the social network of the hour, and now book bloggers have also discovered the platform for themselves. Check out this new form of literary criticism in no more than 2,200 letters plus an image.

Britta Teckentrup
Atmospheric Objectivity

“Nature and emotions” are easy for her, she says. Children’s book illustrator Britta Teckentrup likes to focus her drawings on the profound and relies on a balance of objectivity and empathy. 

Nikolaus Heidelbach
The funny and the terrible in the world of children

The little heroes in Nikolaus Heidelbach’s picture books do not live in a colourful children’s paradise, nor are they angelically innocent beings themselves either. The Cologne author’s narrative style depicts the light and the dark, as it were, in words and in pictures. Children can handle it, he says.

Time to listen

The current situation has forced many people around the world to stay at home and follow the news. In isolation they hear news of a global crisis and threat. As in Boccaccio's “Il Decamerone” and many other myths and books of other cultures, the description of the disaster is followed by stories.

The Goethe project Time to Listen presents a collection of stories - told by storytellers from all genres of art, from all over the world.

We have the time, let's listen and enjoy... And watch out for a storyteller from Bangalore!

Nadia Budde
Playing with words and pictures

Children’s book author Nadia Budde juggles words and drawings, arranging both in such clever associations that she inspires readers and critics alike.

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
“Promoting literature research via the archives”

What does the literature archive of the future look like? If the director of the largest and most important German literature archive, Sandra Richter, has anything to do with it, the German Literature Archive in Marbach is going to become more digital – providing ever new possibilities for literary research.
 

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