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Fight the freeze at lakeside resort Fontane Therme

Head out to the little town of Neuruppin to visit the high-end spa, Fontane Therme, named for the famous novelist.

What is literature for?

The German writer Günter Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, a decision that delighted all those who have admired the radical power of Grass's writing since The Tin Drum (1959). This quality was on show in a groundbreaking conversation between Grass and Juan Goytisolo, another dissident writer, at Madrid's Círculo de lectores cultural centre on 6 November 1997.

Europe's workhorse slows down as Germans clock fewest hours

“It takes seriousness to make a man,” the German novelist Theodor Fontanewrote, “but hard work to make a genius.”Surveys indicate that Germans still regard a capacity for toil as a cardinal virtue and enjoy a reputation as Europe’s Arbeitstiere, or single-minded “workhorses”. Yet that reputation cou

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