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Bonn, March 1953: the days of the debates on re-militarization and Germany's accession to the European Defense Community become a fiasco for Keetenheuve, a member of parliament for the Social Democratic Party. Keetenheuve, a skeptic and a dreamer, an idealist who tends towards melancholy and despair, has to witness the destruction of his faith in democracy and the failure of his marriage to a much younger woman – a marriage that was never happy to begin with. As one of the first ...
Bonn, March 1953: the days of the debates on re-militarization and Germany's accession to the European Defense Community become a fiasco for Keetenheuve, a member of parliament for the Social Democratic Party. Keetenheuve, a skeptic and a dreamer, an idealist who tends towards melancholy and despair, has to witness the destruction of his faith in democracy and the failure of his marriage to a much younger woman – a marriage that was never happy to begin with. As one of the first novelists after the war, Wolfgang Koeppen turned his attention toward the immediate political reality: the stuffy and, at the same time, heated climate of restoration in Adenauer's Germany.
The novel relates the futility of politics and the vanity of love and is much more than the record of the life of a dreamer and skeptic. The Hothouse is rightfully regarded as one of the major Germany-novels of the then young republic.
»A masterpiece of German fiction.« New York Times
»The Houthouse is a prose poem about failure. Withering in its insights into post-World War II Germany, incantory in its rhythms, it shows us the idealistic parliament member Keetenheuve, and it shows us how he perishes. It brings us face to face with a modern-day Hamlet.« L.A. Times
»A provocative elegy.« Marcel Reich-Ranicki
»The Hothouse is literature of a quality that is not often attained.« FAZ
»It is hard to think of a German writer of his generation who has written more sensitively or more profoundly about the Holocaust and its effects than Wolfgang Koeppen.« The New Republic
»A mid-20th century masterpiece [...] a nihilist, mock-Wagnerian reflection on the unacklowedged corruption of post-war Germany.« Independent on Sunday
»The writing is sharp, the observations despairingly idiosyncratic, the characterization subtle, the contempt directed at official hipocrisy overwhelming. A brilliant portrait of society suspended in a mindless apathy of acceptance.« Irish Times
»A masterpiece of German fiction.« New York Times
»The Houthouse is a prose poem about failure. Withering in its insights into post-World War II Germany, incantory in its rhythms, it shows us the idealistic parliament member Keetenheuve, and it shows us how he perishes. It brings us face to face with a modern-day Hamlet.« L.A. Times
»A provocative elegy.« Marcel Reich-Ranicki
»The Hothouse is literature of a quality that is...
Wolfgang Koeppen was born on June 23, 1906 in Greifswald and died on March 15, 1996 in Munich. After spending eleven years in Ortelsburg (East Prussia), he returned to Greifswald in 1919. Due to financial reasons he had to leave grammar school and change to a lower secondary school, which he left without obtaining a diploma. After that, he dabbled in many different professions: he worked in a bookshop and at Greifswald's city theatre. As a commis chef he went to Sweden and Finland; in Würzburg he worked as a dramaturge. In 1927 he settled down in Berlin, where he began to work as an editor at the Berliner Börsen-Courier in 1931. He stayed there for two years. He wrote reportages, for the feuilleton, and started on his first literary works. His first novel,...
Wolfgang Koeppen was born on June 23, 1906 in Greifswald and died on March 15, 1996 in Munich. After spending eleven years in Ortelsburg (East...
To be like Erik just once! That’s what Andreas has always wanted, and that’s why he has been trying to make friends with Erik – always polite, enviably relaxed, but ultimately unapproachable –...
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Wolfgang Koeppen once stated that no bibliography could ever exist that drew up a comprehensive list of all the newspaper contributions issuing from his pen. Jörg Döring has refuted this pessimism with this volume of the Complete Works. The complete overview of the feuilleton pieces is the result of a meticulous autopsy of almost every publication mouthpiece where Koeppen had the opportunity...
Youth, published in 1976, is the only longer prose work that Wolfgang Koeppen completed after refraining from the genre for almost twenty years. Youth is composed of a...
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Daybreak leads into the centre of Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s writings, up and close to the pain points of loss and forlornness. This is the powerful, doleful story of a woman who...
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Early Disturbance is the story of a...
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In 1954, Wolfgang Koeppen published Death In Rome, the conclusion of a series of novels that are regarded today as the critical inventory of the early years of the German Federal...
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»Koeppen's work consists, as does that of all writers, of books of varied degrees of importance. I myself appreciate the early novel A Sad Affair, Death In Rome and the fragment...
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A romantic roman à clef that tells the story of Sibylle, one of the greatest literary femmes fatales since Salomé.
A romance that anticipated Beat...
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