The Legend of Paul and Paula
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The Legend of Paul and Paula / Die Legende von Paul und Paula
In the story of Paul and Paula everything is just so: It takes a long time to reach great love. Paul, personal assistant in foreign trade, has married a beautiful but not very intelligent girl. Paula, with two children by two men, works at a supermarket and is determined to give in to the wooing of an older man, a tyre dealer – and it is at that point that Paul and Paula meet again, that’s when it happens, in the garage, that’s when the adverse circumstances begin to seem...
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In the story of Paul and Paula everything is just so: It takes a long time to reach great love. Paul, personal assistant in foreign trade, has married a beautiful but not very intelligent girl. Paula, with two children by two men, works at a supermarket and is determined to give in to the wooing of an older man, a tyre dealer – and it is at that point that Paul and Paula meet again, that’s when it happens, in the garage, that’s when the adverse circumstances begin to seem insurmountable, until all the adversities make way for great love and for one ultimate adversity: Paula’s death.
2017, 91 pages
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Ulrich Plenzdorf
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Ulrich Plenzdorf was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg on October 26, 1934. He died on August 9, 2007 in Berlin. His family moved from West to East Berlin in 1950 and after graduating secondary school, Plenzdorf studied Marxism-Leninism and philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig but did not finish his degree. From 1959, he attended the German Academy of Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1963, he began working as a scenarist and dramaturg at the DEFA studios in Babelsberg. The GDR author rose to fame in both Germanys with his socio-critical novel Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Originally written as a play, it was first performed in Halle/Saale in 1972 and published one year later. Plenzdorf also acquired renown as the scriptwriter for numerous feature films (Die Legende von...
Ulrich Plenzdorf
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Ulrich Plenzdorf was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg on October 26, 1934. He died on August 9, 2007 in Berlin. His family moved from West to East Berlin in...
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The Legend of Happiness Without End
The Legend of Happiness Without End is the extended novel based on Plenzdorf’s movie/novel The Legend of Paul and Paula. Laura looks after Paul, bereft of all happiness, and...
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France (Robert Laffont), Sweden (Thoren & Lindskog)
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Year of Publication: 1973
Ulrich PlenzdorfYear of Publication: 1973
The New Sorrows of Young W.
»Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius – and dead – tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty...
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English world rights (Pushkin Press), Spanish world rights (Marbot), Serbia (Laguna), Georgia (Intelekti)
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