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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 sequence of more than fifty fragments that capture the historical stages towards the end of the German Empire and the beginning of the Weimar Republic in literary snapshots.
Youth is as much an account of Koeppen’s own youth as it is of that of a stranger’s....
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 sequence of more than fifty fragments that capture the historical stages towards the end of the German Empire and the beginning of the Weimar Republic in literary snapshots.
Youth is as much an account of Koeppen’s own youth as it is of that of a stranger’s. Youth is as much a description as it is a narration: facts and fiction mix. There are the small town and its society, the first reality in the cinema and the reality of war, of the mother, the fallen soldier, of dreams and of the wallpaper-pattern. And the suffering, of course, the manifold suffering. As always with works of fiction, this prose has to be understood regarding its style first and its events second.
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...
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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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...
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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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