Language culture and europe so many stories to tell you could fill books with we provide a fresh look at classics Potters Hotel spawn two young fellows a sounds like a man in leather jackets a cliche which is true and not true for. Most folks dont require a mouth guard for most folks on a boat beautiful or in. Delhi in january twenty ninth the projects creators have been accused and David Leavitts visited indias biggest book fair. Danny was one stop of the darts of other projects well to. Taipei was another. Germany was guest of honor at taiwans largest book fair. One hundred must read it was presented to both audiences and experts at the german stories. The list has been translated into both chinese and spanish with more languages to follow. Compilation has been widely discussed liked and shared online one hundred german mastering its a one of a kind project which took months to create. Together we. Thousands upon thousands of pages. There were some books that we thought we wanted to include that we started reading and we were you know actually maybe this isnt that great there are a lot of books that people said we should have included that we figured were maybe a little bit too intellectual or too trashy we tried to get a good mixture and there of entertaining intellectual we tried to span the history of germany and Central Europe and to do that in one hundred books was not that easy. And. No other place is the setting for as many novels on our list as berlin. Where a stew hope and failure collide so often. A city steeped in history inspired storytellers. Right now everyones talking about the Popular Series babylon berlin. Its based on full closures crime novel of the same time and it plunges into the decadent world of drugs sex and bombs. Champagne ok sex jazz murder if youre looking for a romp through berlin in the roaring twentys this book is for you. The lavish t. V. Version of the book directed by among others. Is enjoying worldwide success flamboyant ecstatic and very true to germanys political history. Where the database does make. The same city in the same era berlin alexanderplatz the iconic expression this novel by alfred sublimely film for television. Its the story of fun. Bieber called freshly released from prison now he wants to do everything better but he stumbles again. Is a sign of a dimension cant soak a sound of the rest of us should. Just make sure to set the goal was to win and you count it so it comes and i die. A tragic downward spiral into the cesspools of berlin this story has lost nothing of its fascination and is now being filmed yet again when is the place where more books on our list take place i mean where else and theres a reason for that berlin is where so much happened so much of the Twentieth Century history this is the center point of World War Two its the kaisers capital when you go back to world war one hitlers capital if youre talking about World War Two its the focal point of the cold war. And then berlin had this wall. A divided city with a wall around its western half plenty of dramatic material but the east german writer crystal balls described the tragedy of the city and the entire country. Divided heaven film by convolvulus tells the story of a couple in communist east germany says he flees to west berlin and freedom she stays in the east of her own free will. Is the before they were separated lovers used to look for a star where their eyes would meet and what should we look for. Missing. In him of innocence when she was nice to. Talk. And. To different systems of government and war did love the novel was a success on both sides of the wall. Said two decades later. West berlin spend a day going to capture the wild lifestyle in the District Courts bad decision. But even as money does most of us are. Going to. Be my name and stumbles from bed to the cabin back to life from quite spare via quite sparingly still the idea that it could continue forever is oppressive to us before told at the bar in the bubble of one nine hundred eighty nine west berlin which then bursts. The most of. Suddenly everything is different nothing in berlin remains the same reunification is on the horizon but who are these relatives on the other side of the wall in the east. The literature of germany and its capital berlin last divided rediscover both loved and hated. That there is no reading german literature without reading about german history and theres just theres no way around it its what people want to read its what authors want to write about theres this great german word fag i mean its equivalents one of those huge german words it means confronting the past and thats something that authors immediately after World War Two in the holocaust and thats something the authors in germany are still doing today theyre still trying to come to terms with germanys past. Can writers accurately reflect the horrific events of the holocaust some writers have been able to describe the mass murder of European Jews and at the same time create outstanding literature. And. Maybe esther by a culture patrol begins with a family secret that is too awful to talk about. It involves a journey through Eastern Europe and a search for clues to the fate of a jewish family. The first time i no longer understood how i ever could have imagined that i had been spared somehow i knew my polish relatives had all perished siblings his mothers tailor their family how else could this event did but i had never thought about them. There was after lida whose recipes for delicious sweet sausages died with her. And grandmother or published them rosa who had great legs and love to dance to charleston and the great grandmother who was executed by german troops in one nine hundred forty one her name was esther maybe. Writes in german although her native language is ukrainian this linguistic diversity allows her to describe her characters with a certain detachment feel life maybe esther is a very sad story but its not melancholy its an unusual account of the holocaust the family. And the people who come alive again in this novel you will be seen with a new bin this one. G. s a boggs novel austell its is also filled with uncertainty travel and a search for clues but this is not an autobiography it is a semi fictional account of the jewish historian jacques austerlitz who is trying to recall memories that he has long since lost. One day at a train station also that sees a young boy who he realizes is his four year old self being sent by kindertransport to england this vision finally inspires him to go searching for his original family. Ouster lets his life was saved by a train later his mother was deported to auschwitz by train train stations play a key role in this novel ouster lets is a man who has a. Child lost his homeland language and even his name. Chances are youve seen heard and read lots of stories about World War Two and the holocaust but you havent read one like alstom lets. Hear it becker was one of the first authors to inject a bit of humor and to an otherwise tragic holocaust novel called the liar it was published in one nine hundred sixty nine the work is set in a polish get over similar to the one nothing author himself grew up in. Most of the novel in his fictional. Character in the film. Jacobo owns a cafe and distributes to his customers fake radio news reports that the ghetto will soon be liberated. Already and when i try to make use of the very last possibility that keeps them from just lying down and dying with words do you understand i try to do that with words because thats all i have and then you come and tell me its prohibited you know exactly this is full bore. The novel is realistic in its portrayal of life in the ghetto but it also expresses a sense of human warmth and hope. And no wonderful book that will stay with you. Theres actually an amazingly high number of nobel Prize Winners our list but that wasnt our criterion were we created a list for everyone so that means that yes the classics are on their. Authors like how my house organs are cost have won the nobel prize but there are also authors on there that even experts in german literature may not know so weve got something for the beginners who are just coming some german language literature for the first time and something for for people who have been reading these books all their life. Clearly the giants of german literature cannot simply be ignored and many are included on our detail you list our compilation features seven authors who have won the nobel prize for literature their works are set against some of the great historical events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In one such novel we have a prosperous german point city. A society in turmoil and a prominent family of merchants. These are the cornerstones and thomas months family saga britain brooks in fact it reflects munns own upbringing he was born into a middle class family in lubec in eight hundred seventy five his father was a green merchant mundra wrote about the life and times that he knew well. Society was in the grip of a recession the lives of the middle class were being turned upside down months boulden brooks charts the rise and fall of the merchant family between decadence and rash consumerism. Months novel was published in one thousand one and is considered one of the earliest examples of modern fiction it was awarded the nobel prize for literature in one thousand twenty nine its hard to say its too much money almost none who also wrote many other novels is one of our most important writers publisher wanted to cut that. Awful in half luckily month didnt let him. Another example is his famous novel the tin drum told from a childs point of view. National socialism and World War Two class portrays the german people as a nation of nazi sympathizers who refused to grow up. The film version of this work drives home this point with vivid images and. This book from one nine hundred fifty nine was the first major novel to deal with germanys nazi past. But people used to think that evil spirits appear to somehow suggest the german people its not how it was it all took place in broad daylight so im home park. Was just six when the nazis came to power near the end of the war he served briefly in the vatican s. S. Finally admitted this in two thousand and six. Writing has always been a way to deal with the past when goss published the term drum it caused a scandal no one had written about World War Two with such serious such brutality im such. A towering figure in german literature and an eloquent spokesman on the darker chapters of recent german history gus was awarded the nobel prize for literature in one thousand nine hundred nine. The life of another Nobel Laureate how to milla was also shaped by totalitarian regimes she grew up in romania her father served in the buff in s. S. After the war or was deported to the soviet gulag milla emigrated to west germany in one thousand nine hundred seven and was finally able to write without government imposed censorship. I write about the Broad Spectrum of individuals who live in dictatorships. Everyone from the true believers all the way to the dissidents. In the hunger and on time and i tell us the story of her mother and other ethnic germans in romania at the end of World War Two thousands of ethnic germans were deported to soviet labor camps. Was awarded the nobel prize in two thousand and nine some newspapers in the us asked her who had who no one says that anymore. So reading german literature even if its in translation is really a unique opportunity for people who are not german speakers People Living outside germany syria get an insiders perspective and thats something that richer in translation provides a unique opportunity to do. We visited translator Katie Darbyshire in berlin shes a real connoisseur of german literature and is completely involved in the works of her authors. Maybe darbyshire can certainly help you out if youre looking for a good book at her favorite bookshop or at home perhaps shes even translated the novel into english the british born linguist is one of the most prominent translators of contemporary german literature shes written books about it and teaches literary translation what drives her. Beloved books that make you feel very deeply i love when literature can make you. Angry i sometimes i was translating a short story last week and it made me cry while i was translating it which is kind of manipulative but good. I like. Literature that you can hear the sound of it when you when youre reading it you can hear the more you can hear. In the press all the where where the writers are really. To do something to us. For more than two decades now Katie Darbyshire only translates books that really move her. Such as an apple stole off a novel by the bill of. Its on our list of one hundred german must reads and be sure has translated is often puzzling dark works plus shes rendered in english the books of clamens meyer who caused a stir with his stories about just after german reunification the translator really went the extra mile for miers latest novel. The hardest book to play so i managed a place with. Bricks and mortar because its very very long and its about six lakh and we still have an american publisher. Chip. Because its amazing. She spent a year looking for an english publisher which needed another year to get the money together and then she started translating which presented some challenges. And we thought oh nine a glue to oughtnt its not a language taught and then an english we get oh no gerrys red hot and good to trot so that kind of thing and i think i had to get. She got the go ahead over dinner with the author the effort was worth it bricks and mortar was listed for the Man Booker International prize its his baby and its mine she says she loves interacting with the authors which sometimes goes beyond the professional. Some of my friends. And some it feels very one way so i feel like i go very deep inside of what and im. Kind of inside their brain and rethinking their thoughts in my language. But of course they didnt do their thing to me. Katie darbyshire experiences intensely the books she translates her blog love german books is completely dedicated to german literature and several of her translation works are on our list of one hundred german must reads among them is of course bricks and mortar by claimants mind. Women selling their bodies to make quick cash gross old men taking advantage of young girls claimants myers novel bricks and mortar is about a nameless town in eastern germany no sooner has the regime fallen then drugs crime and prostitution come flooding in the many voices in the book are mostly womens some of them have chosen prostitution others have been forced into it and theyre all just trying to get through it i have a kind of scale dirty nails and bad breath right at the top but theres no difference in the and not much and theres another scale just for breath and then when they pant at you you have to turn away carefully your head i mean so it doesnt look rude. Bricks and mortar will take you want to journey through a dark and brutal world but with shimmers of deep humanity hope and humor. Many of the authors on our list that are that are quite well known outside. Of germany and Central Europe are writing about fantasy for instance these are authors like the Childrens Book author cordelia foamcore who are extremely well known in the United States even in india who many of their readers dont even know or german. Malibu home to some of the worlds biggest stars and germanys top childrens author cornelia. Lets go visit. The phone could have sold tens of millions of books across fifty countries. Twelve years ago she left germany for california. America opened its arms and said we love your stories fantastical stories about the power of books and the imagination of young people including her International Breakthrough novel in cart these days home could travels the globe to meet her readers if. I was in hamburg the night the socalled president of this country was elected. You could call him he who shall not be named like in harry potter. It was that night that it became clear to me that i wanted to come back to america because this is my home now and i felt i had to fight for it its more stuff of kempe. Because home is here now with her dogs ducks and donkeys and her avocado grows she says here in the u. S. Childrens literature is valued much more than in germany Time Magazine even listed for as one of the worlds one hundred most influential people for inspiring Young Readers around the world children are a huge source of her inspiration. Because they dont use equipment like they can hide their feelings the way grownups can most of them dont have any masks on yet its tough especially theyre very serious about life they still ask the Big Questions about life and death. Whereas we grownups keep learning to filter things out so that we can just keep living the way we want to live so by then i like to see myself as the kid spy in this strange grown up world and reveal a few secrets to them from time to time. Because its her love for her readers thats the secret to her global success. Do you write differently now that youre writing for such an International Audience its been yes. Im a different person now that ive been to so many countries and traveled so much and expose myself to so many cultures and my horizons are a lot brighter than a duck when i only knew hamburg. In your experience what do americans think about german literature and authors. That kind of presentation i can only speak from my own experience but id say that its practically a blank slate as its possible between this practice are a lot of americans surprised german yeah i feel a lot of americans think that i am american or at least that i write in english thats a good thing so theyre quite surprised and also fascinated to learn that i write in german and you have and when i visit schools the kids always ask me cornelius Say Something in german from kim and kanye ask you something in germany. Well you know when i do theyre completely fascinated that they really dont understand it and that i can speak it on the. Canadia phone has made working wayne which is still german i have taught the neighbor four hundred via twitter and they call me yes and mark ne but most of her readers dont care what language she writes him for them its the story the counts that scotland was follow and so was the realm of heaven the valley that the last dragons in this world has called the home for two years now. One of the things we wanted to accomplish with this list is to give people a different perspective on germany and on europe a deeper perspective and a much more humane perspective and i think that anyone who reads through this list particularly of the books that deal with german history theyre going to come away with a different understanding not just of this part of the world but also of war peace violence intolerance and tolerance. 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