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Trail of the unexpected: Burgenland
Strange meeting Baltic backlash
Postcard from Berlin The Independent
Fouling the Nest The Richmond Review Features
The truth behind bravado in a bunker In praise of writers' bloc Teutonic Tomes The Ultimate Literary Lunch The Don
Quixote of Kensington After the long night - the dawn Who's been living in my house?
Book
reviews
Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki, trans. Anthea Bell Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Susan Bernofsky
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse Beside the Sea by Veromique Olmi, trans. Adriana Hunter The Passport by Herta Muller, trans. Martin Chalmers Journey into the Past by Stefan
Zweig, trans Anthea Bell The Spy Game by Georgina Harris
Alone in Berlin
by Hans Fallada, trans. Julien Parme
by Florian Zeller, trans. Christopher Moncrieff Kafka's
Soup by Mark Crick
Easier Fatherland by Steve Crawshaw Kafka by Nicholas Murray The English Years by Norbert Gstrein, trs Anthea Bell
Microcosm, by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse Music
Something of the night Barb Jungr Eva Meier Kurt Weill biography for
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John Hoyland at the Arts Club
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The Independent, 6 August 2011
Burgenland was Hungarian until 90 years ago, when residents voted to join Austria – creating a unique region.
The New Statesman, 19 January 2009
You're from London and you're going to Kaliningrad?" a young man in Lithuania
asked incredulously. "That's like me going to Mars."
The Independent
14 December 2007
From the coast road that leads
into the Latvian port of Liepaja from the north, it is an astonishing sight: a
vast Russian Orthodox cathedral, its gilded onion domes lit up by floodlights....
3 July 2000
Should
Germany reconstruct the monuments of its imperial past that were destroyed in the
Second World War?
'In Austria, any
effort to promote an honest review of the country's wartime history still arouses
violent resentment...'
The Independent, 8 September 2011
Why do falling tyrants hold out to the bitter end? Ian Kershaw, historian of the Third Reich
The Independent on Sunday
9 May 2010
How the tedium of life under Communism gave rise to a literature alive with surrealism and comedy
The
London Library Magazine
March 2010
C.J. Schüler explores the literary delights to be found in the
Library’s German collections
The
Independent
24 May 2007
Virginia Woolf's clafoutis, Kafka's miso,
Austen's eggs - a novel set of recipes is cooking up a storm on stage in Paris.
The Independent on Sunday
2 April
2006
A Romanian exile who gave himself six weeks to learn English became
the editor of a literary periodical that outlived Stephen Spender's 'Encounter'
and T S Eliot's 'Criterion'. C J Schüler examines the extraordinary legacy of
Miron Grindea
The Independent on
Sunday
21 August 2005
By the 1920s, Stefan Zweig was one of the most
successful authors in the world. But after his tragic death in 1942, his fame just
faded away. It's time to rediscover his bittersweet tales of desire, loathing and
obsession...
The Independent
It takes time and effort, but digging up the
history of your home can introduce you to some colourful old characters.
The Independent, 26 April 2011
A German gem found in translation
The Financial Times, 25 October 2010
A deeply engaging panorama of Germany's troubled 20th-century history
The Independent, 20 August 2010
Life and death in Hitler's capital
The Independent, 25 February 201-
A struggling mother takes one-way trip to the seaside
The Financial Times, 23 November 2009
An early novel by the Nobel laureate
The Independent, 29 June 2009
A lucid, tender tale of
love and war
The Independent, 26 May 2009
A foggy tale of secrets and lives
in the Cold War
The Independent on Sunday, 24 May 2009
This 1947
German tragic novel is a guide to the concentric circles of the Third Reich
inferno
The Independent, 5 August 2008
A classic tale of a misunderstood French teen
The Independent on Sunday, 13 November
2005
What do you do if you're Franz Kafka and you've got friends coming to
dinner? Worry, of course...
The Independent on Sunday, 29
August 2004
After the denial and the soul searching, Germany finally moves
out of the shadow of its past
The Independent on Sunday, 20 June
2004
So you thought Kafka was a tormented depressive who never went out or enjoyed any
literary success? Think again...
The Independent, 30 December 2002
An elegant, sinister tale of exile and betrayal. Having fled Nazi Austria to be
interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Gabriel Hirschfelder lives as a
cantankerous recluse in Southend-on-Sea...
The Richmond
Review
'An impressive and timely history of one of the continent's great
cities...'
The Independent
15 June
2004
The classic children's novel Marianne Dreams is brought to
life at Sadler's Wells by the composer Andrew Lowe-Watson.
Talk of the Town
13
July 2003
The charismatic, rich-voiced singer rewrites the rule book,
mixing Bob Dylan with Jacques Brel
The Independent, 15 May 2001
Decades of
camp interpretations have robbed Weimar cabaret songs of their raw power - the
singer Eva Meier tells CJ Schuler how she's going to win it back.
"I have never acknowledged the difference between 'serious' music
and 'light' music."
The Independent, 2 April
2007
New work by Britain's leading Abstract Expressionist painter
The Richmond Review
An
exhibition charting the rise and fall of modernism and including rarely-seen
Nazi-era paintings stirs up controversy in Germany
A photographic exhibition of ancient coins at the British
Museum has become a surprising source of controversy, mystery and, above all,
beauty
