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Sven Regener: 'Berlin Blues'
Regener succeeds in creating an authentic, atmospherically dense impression of Kreuzberg in the late 1980s.
Johanna Adorján: 'An Exclusive Love'
In her debut book, Johanna Adorján intimately explores the life and death of her Hungarian grandparents.
Uwe Tellkamp: 'The Tower'
Winner of the German Book Prize, Uwe Tellkamp has revived a lost world in his very successful novel.
W.G. Sebald: 'Austerlitz'
A melancholy book about memory and loss, told in a unique way that mixes fact and fiction.
Siegfried Lenz: 'A Minute's Silence'
A tragic love story that captures life in a small seaside village and reflects Germany's own post-war growing pains.
Elke Schmitter: 'Mrs. Sartoris'
In her debut novel, journalist Elke Schmitter paints the portrait of an adulteress from the German countryside.
Inka Parei: 'The Shadow-Boxing Woman'
Set in Berlin in the 1990s, it's a novel about a city in transition — and a detective story.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel: 'Lost'
A boy tells the story of his brother who went missing during the war. It's a sad, yet funny view of post-war Germany.
Monika Maron: 'Animal Triste'
What does it mean to feel desire and to be desired when one grows older? Monika Maron dissects a love story.
Bernhard Schlink: 'The Reader'
How intense must the fear of being exposed as illiterate be for one to admit to having committed mass murder?
Robert Schneider: 'Brother of Sleep'
A musical, self-pitying genius lives among village idiots. Robert Schneider's novel delves into German Romanticism.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: 'Life is a Caravanserai'
The author is a wanderer between worlds, and her book is an autobiographical fairy tale.
Elias Canetti: 'Auto-da-Fé'
Elias Canetti received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel about a man who goes mad from his love of books.
Birgit Vanderbeke: 'The Mussel Feast'
A disdainful dinner becomes a swan song about idyllic family life — a literary debut that garnered a prestigious award.
Gert Hofmann: 'The Film Explainer'
Gert Hofmann's novel is not only a nostalgic cultural take; it also attempts to unravel the German mentality.
Patrick Süskind: 'Perfume'
Several publishers rejected the manuscript before the novel became an international bestseller.
Jörg Fauser: 'Raw Material'
He wrote faster, harder, more concisely than anyone else. Jörg Fauser was the king of the literary underground.
Thomas Bernhard: 'Woodcutters'
A writer who berated all — and whose rants inspired literary masterpieces.
Elfriede Jelinek: 'The Piano Teacher'
A dramatic tale of a sick mother-daughter relationship from which there is no escape. Even music is oppressive.
Ernst Haffner: 'Blood Brothers'
They steal, they sell their bodies and beat each other up in Berlin during the 1930s in Ernst Haffner's novel.
Erich Kästner: 'Going to the Dogs'
An intoxicating book, like a ramble through Berlin's seedy side, published shortly before the Nazis came to power.
Peter Schneider: 'The Wall Jumper'
Peter Schneider wrote "The Wall Jumper" in 1982. In retrospect, it almost seems prophetic.
Gregor von Rezzori: 'Memoirs of an Anti-Semite'
Gregor von Rezzori relies on humor and sarcasm to expose the ignorance that goes hand in hand with nationalist delusion.
Edgar Hilsenrath: 'The Nazi and the Barber'
The history of the Shoah as a dark comedy of mistaken identities told by a mass murderer.
Heinrich Böll: 'The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum'
A young woman at the center of a community's hysteria becomes the victim of a media smear campaign.
Vicki Baum: 'Grand Hotel'
This book reflected the spirit of the times in the 1920s, and turned its creator into a best-selling author.
Ulrich Plenzdorf: 'The New Sorrows of Young W.'
Plenzdorf's book from 1973 was a shock for the East German establishment, but it also made him famous.
Ingeborg Bachmann: 'Malina'
Living and loving is torture, as Bachmann's controversial novel reveals.
Alfred Döblin: 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'
It's a classic of world literature and masterpiece of German modernism that bears witness to the Weimar Republic.
Franz Kafka: 'The Trial'
What is Joseph K. actually guilty of? Kafak's puzzling novel is a classic of world literature.
Marlen Haushofer: 'The Wall'
What remains of a person who lives in complete isolation — confined entirely to the wild?
Ernst Jünger: 'Storm of Steel'
He captured the horrors of World War I in his novel, garnering him intense criticism.
Günter Grass: 'The Tin Drum'
Oskar Matzerath and his tin drum — an unforgettable literary figure that is world-renowned.
Gert Ledig: 'Payback'
Gert Ledig's "Payback" describes the bombing of a German city by an American air regiment.
Heimito von Doderer: 'The Demons'
None of the novels that deal with Europe between the wars is as sweeping and yet profound as this Vienna-based epic.
Hermann Hesse: 'Demian'
Hesse's quest for the meaning of life went on to inspire an entire generation scarred by the horrors of World War I.
Ilse Aichinger: 'The Greater Hope'
"The Greater Hope" tells the story of a young "half-Jewish" girl during the late years of the war.
Hans Fallada: 'Alone in Berlin'
Fallada's masterpiece tells of citizen resistance against a brutal Nazi regime.
Ernst Lothar: 'The Vienna Melody'
It's a love story, war drama and family tragedy all in one, and a must-read about Austria's tumultuous history.
Anna Seghers: 'The Seventh Cross'
A novel opposing dictatorship, and an appeal for solidarity and resistance during times of terror.
Kurt Tucholsky: 'Rheinsberg'
A couple head out to a resort together without being married: A love story narrated in an easy, breezy way.
Stefan Zweig: 'Beware of Pity'
"Beware of Pity" is a melancholy tale of misdirected admiration and pity.
Klaus Mann: 'Mephisto'
The literary psychological profile of a Third Reich follower was not allowed to be published in Germany for decades.
Rainer Maria Rilke: 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'
A diary-like text without a plot or chronology: Rilke's only novel heralded an identity crisis in literature.
Robert Walser: 'Jakob von Gunten'
The Swiss author's most mysterious book is a portrait of the most devoted revolutionary in literary history.
Robert Musil: 'The Confusions of Young Master Törless'
One is mistaken in calling this a story of disdain about boarding school. Robert Musil's novel is about power and abuse.
Thomas Mann: 'Buddenbrooks'
This is a literary masterpiece about the collapse of a family, and a panoramic view of society in the 19th century.
Jean Paul Gaultier's 'Fashion Freak Show'
French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is staging a new kind of revue theater show in Paris.
'The Tin Drum' by Günter Grass
AAAAAAH! A voice that can shatter glass. Curtain up for Oskar Matzerath, Günter Grass and "The Tin Drum" !
'Auto-da-Fé' by Elias Canetti
What would be your worst nightmare? For Elias Canetti's protagonist it's seeing his library go up in flames.
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