City Tales / Berlin Tales
(Sprache: Englisch)
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are...
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin.
Klappentext zu „City Tales / Berlin Tales “
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „City Tales / Berlin Tales “
- Introduction
- 1: Siegfried Kracauer: 'Aus dem Fenster gesehen' (Seen From the Window)
- 2: Alfred Döblin: 'Östlich um den Alexanderplatz' (East of Alexanderplatz)
- 3: Franz Hessel: excerpt from 'Spazieren in Berlin' (A Flaneur in Berlin)
- 4: Max Frisch: 'Berlin, November 1947'
- 5: Uwe Johnson: 'Berliner Stadtbahn' (Berlin S-Bahn)
- 6: Günter Kunert: 'Alltägliche Geschichte einer Berliner Straße' (Everyday Story of a Berlin Street)
- 7: Günter de Bruyn: 'Berlin, Große Hamburger' (Große Hamburger Street)
- 8: Monika Maron: 'Geburtsort Berlin' (Place of Birth: Berlin)
- 9: Emine Sevgi Özdamar: 'Mein Berlin' (My Berlin)
- 10: Durs Grünbein: 'Sommerzeit' (Summertime)
- 11: Inka Bach: 'Besetzer' (Squatters)
- 12: Annett Gröschner: 'Rest Esplanade' (The Remains of the Hotel Esplanade)
- 13: Fridolin Schley: 'Das Herz der Republik' (The Heart of the Republic)
- 14: Carmen Francesca Banciu: 'Berlin ist mein Paris' (Berlin is my Paris)
- 15: Katrin Röggla: 'fraktionen' (factions)
- 16: Wladimir Kaminer: 'Stadtführer Berlin' (Berlin Guide)
- 17: Ulrike Draesner: 'Gina Regina'
Autoren-Porträt von Helen Constantine
Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool; she researches and translates contemporary literature, with a particular interest in Berlin. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford University, and taught there and at Manchester University, as well as living for a time in Berlin. Helen Constantine is editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation and the editor and translator of Paris Tales and French Tales.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Helen Constantine
- 2009, 236 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Helen Constantine
- Übersetzer: Lyn Marven
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199559384
- ISBN-13: 9780199559381
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „City Tales / Berlin Tales “
"Poignant, and highly reccommended." --Midwest Book Review
Pressezitat
These seventeen stories traverse the effervescent city of Berlin, both past and present, in such a beguiling way - that one's compelled to not only read more, but investigate the city for real. David Marx, David Marx: Book Reviews
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