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    Tag: Germany

    The unlived life is light, so light

    Dear Marie Luise, Circe’s Mountain: Stories (1990, tr. Lisel Mueller. Stories originally written in the 1950’s and 1960’s) is a collection of 12 of some of your…… Read more “The unlived life is light, so light”

    7 de December de 20207 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Marie Luise Kaschnitz

    Marie Luise Kaschnitz (née Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; after marriage, Marie Luise Kaschnitz von Weinberg; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German writer. She…… Read more “Marie Luise Kaschnitz”

    7 de December de 20207 de December de 2020 by juliana

    The shape was weaker, the core more solid,

    Dear Annette, Die Judenbuche – Ein Sittengemälde aus dem gebirgichten Westfalen (1842, ‘The Jew’s Beech-Tree – A moral painting from the mountainous Westphalia’) centres on a series…… Read more “The shape was weaker, the core more solid,”

    23 de November de 202024 de November de 2020 by juliana

    I turned her into a tree so that she would stop trembling

    Dear Irmgard, Child of All Nations (2008, tr. Michael Hofmann. Original: Kind aller Länder, 1938) is all about voice. Not bitter nor cheerful, but something in-between. It…… Read more “I turned her into a tree so that she would stop trembling”

    21 de August de 2020 by juliana

    A flower silence, completely unfolded,

    Dear Getrud, The two prose works collected in A Jewish Mother from Berlin: A Novel/ Susanna: A Novella (1997, tr. Brigitte M. Goldstein) read like disenchanted but…… Read more “A flower silence, completely unfolded,”

    20 de August de 2020 by juliana

    Gertrud Kolmar

    Gertrud Kolmar (pseudonym of Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, December 10, 1894 – March 1943) was a German writer. Kolmar was born in Berlin as the eldest of four…… Read more “Gertrud Kolmar”

    18 de August de 20201 de December de 2020 by juliana

    Everything, by virtue of coming into existence, is doomed to pass

    Dear Ricarda, The Last Summer (2016, tr.  Jamie Bulloch. Original: Der letzte Sommer, 1910) feels like a treasure chest full of letters. As we read through them,…… Read more “Everything, by virtue of coming into existence, is doomed to pass”

    6 de August de 20206 de August de 2020 by juliana

    Ricarda Huch

    Ricarda Huch (18 July 1864 – 17 November 1947) was a German writer. Huch was the youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant family, whose business was headquartered…… Read more “Ricarda Huch”

    5 de August de 20203 de March de 2021 by juliana

    Something that was unassailable and inviolable

    Dear Netty, The Seventh Cross (tr. Margo Bettauer Dembo, 2018. Original: Das siebte Kreuz, 1942) starts and ends at the same point – but, in the span…… Read more “Something that was unassailable and inviolable”

    3 de June de 2020 by juliana

    What you call sin I call the great spirit of love

    Dear Christa, This story seems to have had many lives. It started as a play, first performed in 1930, in Leipzig, as Ritter Nérestan (“Knight Nérestan”), and…… Read more “What you call sin I call the great spirit of love”

    17 de December de 201920 de January de 2020 by juliana

    Christa Winsloe

    Christa Winsloe (nee Christa Kate Winsloe; married name Christa Hatvany, Christa von Hatvany, Christa Hatvany-Winsloe; December 23, 1888 – June 10, 1944) was a German sculptor and…… Read more “Christa Winsloe”

    29 de November de 201917 de December de 2019 by juliana

    The wild muse in me

    Five poems by German author Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, from the book The Wild Muse: The Poetry of Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff, edited and translated by Marion Tymms (2013) * Restlessness (Unruhe,…… Read more “The wild muse in me”

    28 de November de 201829 de November de 2018 by juliana

    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria, Freiin/Baroness von Droste zu Hülshoff, 10 or 12 January 1797 – 24 May 1848), was a German writer and composer.…… Read more “Annette von Droste-Hülshoff”

    28 de November de 20181 de December de 2020 by juliana

    We took everything upon ourselves

    Dear Sophie, What I found most interesting in the book The White Rose (1952) were the leaflets you produced and distributed, together with your brother and a group…… Read more “We took everything upon ourselves”

    15 de November de 201815 de November de 2018 by juliana

    Sophie Scholl

    Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student, anti-Nazi dissident, and activist. When she was a teenager, she enlisted in the Hitler…… Read more “Sophie Scholl”

    15 de November de 201815 de November de 2018 by juliana

    I preferred us when my father was away

    Dear Birgit, The Mussel Feast, tr. Jamie Bulloch (2013. Original: Das Muschelessen, 1990) is a novella about the collapse of a man’s rule over his family during the course of an…… Read more “I preferred us when my father was away”

    13 de November de 2018 by juliana

    Birgit Vanderbeke

    Birgit Vanderbeke (1956) is a German writer. Born in the DDR, she moved with her family to West Germany, in 1961. Vanderbeke studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages…… Read more “Birgit Vanderbeke”

    13 de November de 201813 de November de 2018 by juliana

    Erika Mann

    Erika Mann (Erika Julia Hedwig Mann, 1905 – 1969) was a German writer and actress. Born in Munich, she was the eldest daughter of the German novelist Thomas Mann. From…… Read more “Erika Mann”

    5 de November de 20186 de November de 2018 by juliana

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