In der deutschen Erinnerungskultur ist die Novemberrevolution von 1918/19 heute kaum noch präsent. Die zahlreichen Romane, die dieses Ereignis thematisieren und von denen einige bei ihrem Erscheinen auf große Resonanz stießen, sind inzwischen ebenfalls überwiegend in Vergessenhe…
An enchanting tale of the wildflower root-children, who spend the winter asleep deep underground in the care of wise Mother Earth. When spring comes they wake up, sew new gowns and capes, clean and paint the beetles and bugs, and climb out into the lovely warm spring sunshine. A…
An early brand of feminism was also expressed by Bachmann, who posited women as unhappy victims of a male-centered socio-political establishment. In [this] first novel in an intended trilogy that was published in 1971 ... the female heroine ... struggles to express her artistic …
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of …
By most accounts the German Democratic Republic was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was unlikely. But the author shows that love was freighted as a privile…
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of …