Tag Archives: German literature

Remembering Artur Brauner and Dr. Mabuse

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Cora

This will only be a short post, because I’m still hard at work doing the 2019 July short story challenge. If you want to follow along, bookmark my July short story challenge day by day post. Meanwhile, I’m also over … Continue reading →

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The Böhmermann Case

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Cora

I’m one of them. One of the approximately 300000 to 500000 German TV viewers who knew who Jan Böhmermann was before last week and who regularly watched his comedy program Neo Magazin Royale in its Thursday/Friday night post-midnight graveyard slot. … Continue reading →

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New Fantasy Story Available: Kiss of Ice

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Cora

I’ve said before that I’d have a couple of promo posts and new book announcements coming up in the run-up to Christmas and here is the second of them. This announcement is for Kiss of Ice, a dark and wintery … Continue reading →

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Seasonal Views of Bremen 2015

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Cora

Yesterday, I didn’t have school, so I took the chance to go to Bremen and take a stroll over the Christmas market. And since I was in Bremen already, I had lunch at the Übersee Restaurant, their lunch special of … Continue reading →

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Das Literarische Quartett Reloaded, Take 2, or the State of Literary Programming on German TV

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Cora

Don’t worry, I’m not planning to review every episode of the revived Literarisches Quartett, a literature discussion program on German TV (For more information about the program in general, see my review of the first episode of the revival here). … Continue reading →

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A Few Shout-outs – Ein paar Lesetipps

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Cora

First of all, Swedish crime fiction write Henning Mankell died of cancer, aged only 67. He was best known for the Kurt Wallander mysteries, though he also wrote other things. Now I’ve never read any of his novels, though I … Continue reading →

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Das Literarische Quartett Reloaded

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Cora

Hot on the heels of the deaths of Hellmuth Karasek, one third of the original Literarisches Quartett (no, that’s not a typo), came the revival of what was once the preeminent literary program on German TV. So what is Das … Continue reading →

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Two more literary deaths: Hellmuth Karasek and Ellis Kaut

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Cora

2015 has been a bad year for German literature and a bad year for celebrity deaths in general. Now we lost two more literary greats in the space of a few days, critic and writer Hellmuth Karasek, who died yesterday … Continue reading →

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New German language anthology available – Neue deutschsprachige Anthologie im Handel

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Cora

I actually had planned to make a new release announcement this weekend, but now you get two, since it turns out that I also have a German language short story in an anthology I had sort of forgotten about. Kurze … Continue reading →

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Wolfgang Jeschke, Nutty Nuggets and mixed SF Links

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Cora

Since my last post, a couple of other obituaries for Wolfgang Jeschke have popped up online, including a few in English: Mike Glyer at File 770 has an English language obituary. Locus Online has another English language obituary. Phantastik-Couch offers … Continue reading →

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