Julian Preece Bücher

Unkenrufe erschien im Mai 1992 und war die erste literarische Veröffentlichung von Günter Grass nach dem Zusammensturz des Kommunismus in Osteuropa und der darauffolgenden Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands, der Grass der Politiker stets skeptisch gegenüberstand. Tatsächlich rundet die Erzählung eine Schaffensperiode ab, die im Kalten Krieg ihre Wurzeln hat und mit der Rättin einen Höhepunkt fand. Unkenrufe , die im November 1989 anfängt, spielt gröβtenteils im polnischen Gdańsk und der umliegenden Kaschubei und kreist um das Thema der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen in der ehemaligen Hansestadt, die früher überwiegend von Deutschen bewohnt war. Die Hauptfiguren, von Idealen getrieben und der Geschichte traumatisiert, wollen zur Versöhnung beitragen, stiften aber nur Unheil an. Ihre in die Irre geleiteten Bemühungen werden von einem anonymen, ihnen kritisch abgeneigten Erzähler anhand einer Ansammlung von Dokumenten und eigener Recherchen vor Ort ironisch rekonstruiert. Dieser Band enthält eine Einführung in die Erzählung, die auf die Hauptthemen und erzählerische Vorbilder aufmerksam macht, ausführliche Stellenkommentare zu den literarischen Quellen und zur deutsch-polnischen Zeitgeschichte und Materialien zur Entstehung und Rezeption des Werkes.

Exploring the intricacies of Veza Canetti's literary contributions, this work delves into her unique voice and achievements while examining the interplay between her career and that of her renowned husband. It offers a fresh perspective on her writings, shedding light on her significance in the literary world and the dynamics of their partnership.

The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.

"Gunter Grass is the most influential German writer since the Second World War. His books have always challenged conventional attitudes and outraged readers. From The Tin Drum (1959), where he broke down the wall of silence which surrounded ordinary people's involvement in the Third Reich, to Too Far Afield (1995), which upset the reigning consensus on the success of German reunification, he has attracted controversy. He is also an undisputed master of the German language, whose style has inspired novelists in the English-speaking world, from Salman Rushdie and Graham Swift to John Irving." "This book shows how Grass's experiences as a teenager in Hitler's Germany shaped his thinking, both in his literary writing and in his role as campaigner and critic. Julian Preece draws on unpublished correspondence, the memoirs of contemporaries and the most recent research, to present a rounded portrait of the most important German writer since Thomas Mann."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Most of the chapters in this volume were delivered as papers at a conference on the same theme held at the University of Kent in April 2002. The essays collected here, by scholars from the UK, Ireland, Germany, and the US, address a topic of fundamental concern across all the disciplines engaged with the study of contemporary Germany: the evolving relationship between urban and rural space, the metropolitan centre and the provincial Heimat. The volume identifies and investigates a number of recent trends: the emergence of 'eco-literature', the renaissance of writing - in prose and verse - inspired by the new Berlin, the realignment of regional sensibilities, which is complicated by the troubled tradition of Heimat in all its literary manifestations, and the continuing disjunctions between East and West. Individual essays engage with the work of established writers (Günter de Bruyn, Hubert Fichte, Peter Handke, WG Sebald, Siegfried Lenz, Martin Walser, and Elfriede Jelinek) and emerging talents (Georg Klein, Christof Hamann, Ludwig Laher, and Arnold Stadler).

Günter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979 and the memoir Peeling the Onion in 2006 astounded readers by revealing that Grass had been drafted into the most criminal component of the Nazi war machine, the Waffen ss, in the closing months of the Second World War. He wrote memorably about the student movement, feminism and German reunification, and was a key influence on magic realist authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie, as well as the popular novelist John Irving. Grass redefined the role of 'literary commitment', campaigning as a citizen for the German Social Democrats and helping the anti-Nazi Willy Brandt become Chancellor in 1969. Günter Grass is the first biographical study in English of this Nobel Prize-winning writer. Julian Preece introduces Grass's key works and chronicles his interaction with major figures from literary and public life, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl and co-founder of the Red Army Faction Ulrike Meinhof, and places his fiction and public campaigning in the context of Cold War European politics and post- unification Germany.

A pivotal film for new German cinema -- Political context in post-68 West Germany -- Heinrich Böll's novel, or how violence develops and where it can lead -- Words or guns? Katharina Blum's struggle for articulacy -- Influence and afterlives.

Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose oeuvre now spans three decades, including films such as Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005). This collection of essays places him in the tradition of auteur cinema while emphasising his roots in the pre-1990 film industry of DEFA in the GDR.

Addresses whether the collective entity known as Germany should more properly be conflated with the Federal Republic, with its successful sixty-five-year history ('the best Germany we have ever had'), rather than the 'nation' with all its tainted connotations and corrupted concepts such as 'Vaterland'.