Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper head…
The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1 A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of…
A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, "The Hothouse" created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German poli…
One of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme--and featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn A worldwide bestseller publishe…
This landmark collection of essays by one of the world's greatest living authors makes Durs Grunbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English for the first time, and is a welcome complement to "Ashes for Breakfast" (FSG, 2005), his…
The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the Firs…
The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the Top 100 Books of All Time, Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature. B…
For readers of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Dinner, a darkly comic and hauntingly surreal debut novel about what happens when ideologies crumble and the betrayer himself is betrayedOn November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in…
Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Recently released from…
Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats.Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this volume offers readings of four poems in German, French, I…
The last novel from the acclaimed author of The Artificial Silk Girl, this 1950 classic paints a delightfully shrewd portrait of postwar German society. Upon his release from a prisoner-of-war camp, Ferdinand Timpe returns somewhat uneasily to ci…
Ziel der Publikation ist es, den aktuellen Erkenntnisstand zum Themenbereich Unternehmensberatung im Sinne eines "state of the field" aufzuarbeiten und sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Entwicklungsperspektiven aufzuzeigen, die einer Weiterent…
Eine unvergessliche, tragikomische Geschichte, erzählt von der mehrfach preisgekrönten Autorin Annie Proulx, in deren herb-poetischer Sprache jene fremde Gegend zum Sehnsuchtsland wird. ?Schiffsmeldungen? fürs Lokalblatt soll Quoyle j…
Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie. But their hopes are ravage…
Das Institut f r Zeitgeschichte erhielt 1989 den Auftrag, die Akten zur Ausw rtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland herauszugeben. Das Ausw rtige Amt hatte sich entschlossen, seine dritte Aktenedition im 20. Jahrhundert nicht mehr wie die Vor…
Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced trans…
Peter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in paperback. "Write a story about me," Agnes said to her lover, "so I know what you think of me." So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to th…
Das neue Jahrbuch bietet aktuelle Beiträge zur Erforschung des Werkes von Uwe Johnson und dessen anhaltender Wirkung. Wir präsentieren interessante Materialien wie Johnsons Vorschläge zur Gestaltung einer Bibliothek der Bundeswehr und…
Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr nbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid…
The contributions in this volume take different approaches to the complex narrative procedures in the novels of Uwe Johnson. Re-readings of the Wendisch-Burg and the Althagen episodes from Jahrestage (Anniversaries) as well as the often underestimat…
Spiritualitat beschreibt eine altvertraute und im Alltag des Helfens leicht zu ubersehende, gleichwohl existentiale Dimension diakonischer Praxis. Die Beitrage des Buches zeigen die Chancen von Spiritualitat als Diakonie; Spiritualitat als religiose…
Appearing for the first time in English, an anthology of short stories and novellas spans the author's entire writing career and includes many recently discovered works, including "Strawberries," as well as such novellas as Stationmaster Fallmerayer…
In exemplarischen Einzelanalysen zeigt der Autor, da die versepischen Texte Christoph Martin Wielands aus verschiedenen Phasen seines Schaffens als Beitr ge zur literarischen Aufkl rung zu verstehen sind. Dieser geht es im literarischen Medium um ei…
Dieses Buch ist Carl Bohret zu seinem 60. Geburtstag gewidmet. Es ist eine etwas ungewohnliche -Festschrift-: keine umfassende Laudatio auf den Jubilar, sondern eher eine Darstellung der langerfristigen Folgen seines wissenschaftlichen Wirkens uber…
Dieser Band mit Beitragen namhafter Autoren gibt einen Uberblick uber den "State of the Art" des Managements in Theorie und Praxis.
Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of twentieth century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meti…
From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one and for which no one is resp…
A Poetry Book Society recommendationArranged in three parts - the first concerning other people's lives, the second autobiographical, the third to do with the poet's travels in Mexico - Corona, Corona displays to the full Michael Hofmann's gift for…
Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka's lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in…
With five critically acclaimed collections "Nights in the Iron Hotel "(1983), "Acrimony "(1986), "K.S. in Lakeland: New and Selected Poems "(1990), "Corona, Corona "(1993), and "Approximately Nowhere "(1999) Michael Hofmann has established himself a…
herausgegeben vom Bundesministerium des Innern und vom Bundesarchiv. Wissenschaftliche Leitung Helmut Altrichter, Bernd Faulenbach, Hanns J rgen K sters.
English summary: The proportion of young people in the total population of Turkey is three times as high as in Germany. A quarter of the young people in Germany have an immigrant background. What stories are hidden behind these numbers? How are youn…
The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student,…
Managers are confronted with many difficult demands which are still unknown to them. Gaining a better knowledge for unconscious ways of human behavior and their motivations is very important. This book introduces research work to European readers by…
Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann's poem…
Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century', TLS - is all the more impressive for his…
This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, a…
Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject-matter has been equally ind…
