Time to dig out your books - Announcing German Literature Month XVI!!! #GermanLitMonth
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Announcing German Literature Month XVI – November 2026
November isn’t far away, and you all know what that means – German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 16th time, we’ll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, enjoying a whole…
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October 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Time to dig out your books - Announcing German Literature Month XVI!!! #GermanLitMonth
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ICYMI My first review of 2026 is one of the last books I finished in 2025. Originally intended for #GermanLitMonth but life got in the way.
I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...
I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...
I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea
As if tugged by an invisible thread, I stroll the same old streets—under linden and chestnut trees, past potholes where water or fallen autumn leaves used to gather and kids used to splash and stom…
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January 7, 2026 at 1:45 AM
ICYMI My first review of 2026 is one of the last books I finished in 2025. Originally intended for #GermanLitMonth but life got in the way.
I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...
I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...
Never got around to doing this during #GermanLitMonth, but here's a family photo of my Christa Wolf collection - the link will take you to all my reviews, too :)
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December 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Never got around to doing this during #GermanLitMonth, but here's a family photo of my Christa Wolf collection - the link will take you to all my reviews, too :)
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My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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Slander, lies and guilt: #GermanLitMonth
Untitled image by Czech artist Jaromír Funke from the ‘Cyklu Cas Trva’ / ‘Time Persists’ series (1932). The Trial by Franz Kafka. Der Prozess (1925) translated and with an introduction by Idris Pa…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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My monthly wrap-up post for November is out, rounding up all my #GermanLitMonth reviews :)
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November 2025 Wrap-Up – German Literature Month
November, as always, was dominated by my German Literature Month reading, but while that’s been the case for over a decade now, this edition of GLM was a little different. Having jumped in t…
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November 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My monthly wrap-up post for November is out, rounding up all my #GermanLitMonth reviews :)
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My final review for #GermanLitMonth is an early Heinrich Boll novel, And Never Said a Word (translated by Leila Vennewitz):
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And Never Said a Word
And Never Said a Word is an early novel by Heinrich Böll published in 1953. It was translated quickly into English in 1955 (as Acquainted with the Night), but the translation quoted here is by Leil…
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November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My final review for #GermanLitMonth is an early Heinrich Boll novel, And Never Said a Word (translated by Leila Vennewitz):
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Rounding off this year's #GermanLitMonth reviews, all hail the undisputed Queen of GLM, Christa Wolf - see my review of 'Leibhaftig' ('In the Flesh') here :)
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‘Leibhaftig’ (‘In the Flesh’) by Christa Wolf (Review)
When it came to weighing up choices for German Literature Month’s GDR Week, there was one writer I couldn’t look past, particularly as she’s the undoubted queen of my GLM reading …
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November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Rounding off this year's #GermanLitMonth reviews, all hail the undisputed Queen of GLM, Christa Wolf - see my review of 'Leibhaftig' ('In the Flesh') here :)
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The last review, on the Gereon Rath series has me especially intrigued. The idea of the books taking place in 1930s is increasingly speaking all too well to the current moment... #booksky
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic
I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The last review, on the Gereon Rath series has me especially intrigued. The idea of the books taking place in 1930s is increasingly speaking all too well to the current moment... #booksky
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two – one two – three! . two one two three – four . two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child:
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Our Conquest
Gert Hofmann’s novel Our Conquest remains some of the earliest of his work we have in English, originally published in 1984 and translated by Christopher Middleton in 1991. Its focus is one we see …
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November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child:
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic
I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic
I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Feed: "She Reads Novels"
By: Helen (She Reads Novels) on Monday, November 24, 2025
By: Helen (She Reads Novels) on Monday, November 24, 2025
Tales from the Underworld by Hans Fallada – #GermanLitMonth
Translated by Michael Hofmann November is always a busy month with lots of events taking place in the book blogging world, so for German Literature Month (hosted by Caroline of Beauty is a Sleeping…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Feed: "She Reads Novels"
By: Helen (She Reads Novels) on Monday, November 24, 2025
By: Helen (She Reads Novels) on Monday, November 24, 2025
Another racy cover for #GermanLitMonth, but this time the book is more sordid than erotic - how a self-proclaimed pervert brought down the Berlin Wall in Thomas Brussig's 'Helden wie wir' ('Heroes Like Us') :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/h...
‘Helden wie wir’ (‘Heroes Like Us’) by Thomas Brussig (Review)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re already in the final week of German Literature Month, and after some surprisingly fun adventures with Thomas Mann, it’s time to move onto the final…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Another racy cover for #GermanLitMonth, but this time the book is more sordid than erotic - how a self-proclaimed pervert brought down the Berlin Wall in Thomas Brussig's 'Helden wie wir' ('Heroes Like Us') :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/h...
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By: MarinaSofia on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
By: MarinaSofia on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper
Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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By: MarinaSofia on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
By: MarinaSofia on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Week 3 of #GermanLitMonth and I'm reading Volker Weidermann on Thomas Mann: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
German Lit Month 2025-Mann vom Meer-Thomas Mann, Man of the Sea, by Volker Weidermann.
Here I am again, reading around the great Thomas Mann, rather than tackling the work itself. But I couldn’t resist this book, recommended by danares.mag-blog, as I very much enjoyed Volker Weiderma…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Week 3 of #GermanLitMonth and I'm reading Volker Weidermann on Thomas Mann: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
More Mann for #GermanLitMonth today, with the rest of the stories from 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Suffering') - see what I made of them at the usual place :)
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‘Unordnung und frühes Leid’ (‘Disorder and Early Suffering’) by Thomas Mann (Review)
Keen-eyed readers may have noticed that my first contribution to Thomas Mann Week for this year’s German Literature Month, a look at the delightful Herr und Hund (A Man and His Dog), actually…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
More Mann for #GermanLitMonth today, with the rest of the stories from 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Suffering') - see what I made of them at the usual place :)
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My latest #GermanLitMonth review is the newly translated Woman in the Pillory (by Lucy Jones) from East German author Brigitte Reimann, about a love affair between a German woman and a Russian POW.
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Woman in the Pillory
The work of Brigitte Reimann, an East German writer who published for twenty years between 1953 and her early death in 1973, was largely unknown in the English-speaking world until the translation …
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My latest #GermanLitMonth review is the newly translated Woman in the Pillory (by Lucy Jones) from East German author Brigitte Reimann, about a love affair between a German woman and a Russian POW.
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper
Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper - yet another book about my new hometown
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper
Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper - yet another book about my new hometown
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"It’s warm and we’re hungry. We can’t leave, because we can’t pay the hotel bill. We can’t enter any other country, but we can’t stay here either. Perhaps we’ll be thrown into prison, and then we’ll be fed." #BookSky 💙📚 #GermanLitMonth
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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"It’s warm and we’re hungry. We can’t leave, because we can’t pay the hotel bill. We can’t enter any other country, but we can’t stay here either. Perhaps we’ll be thrown into prison, and then we’ll be fed." #BookSky 💙📚 #GermanLitMonth
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New on the blog this week, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).
A striking coming-of-age story of exile in 1930s Europe, told through an engaging narrative voice. #GermanLitMonth #BookSky 💙📚
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A striking coming-of-age story of exile in 1930s Europe, told through an engaging narrative voice. #GermanLitMonth #BookSky 💙📚
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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
New on the blog this week, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).
A striking coming-of-age story of exile in 1930s Europe, told through an engaging narrative voice. #GermanLitMonth #BookSky 💙📚
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A striking coming-of-age story of exile in 1930s Europe, told through an engaging narrative voice. #GermanLitMonth #BookSky 💙📚
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