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Mit "Liebelei" hatte Arthur Schnitzier 1895 seinen ersten großen Bühnenerfolg, in dem er die Form des sonst eher gemütvollen Wiener Volksstücks in ein brisantes sozialpsychologisches Drama zwang: eine scheinhafte Idylle um die Freunde Theodor und Fritz, hinter deren Fassade sich schnell die eigentliche Leere zeigt.
Der Text folgt der Erstausgabe von 1896.
E-Book mit Seitenzählung der gedruckten Ausgabe: Buch und E-Book können parallel benutzt...
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Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry gathers the five final volumes of his life's work in a bilingual edition, translated and with commentary by the award-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris.
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Resi Schandra wurde 1939 als eines von 14 Kindern in Falkenbach bei Freyung geboren.
40 Jahre widmete sie sich ausschließlich ihrer Familie - dann begann sie zu schreiben - direkt und unverstellt.
Mit Momentaufnahmen über die Liebe, die natur und das Leben lenkt sie unseren Blick auf den Kern der Dinge.
Ihr achtes und letztes Buch - sagt sie...
"Der Apfel braucht nur einen Sommer um zu reifen.
Die Weisheit - Jahre."
Resi Schandra
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Kommissar Franz-Josef Grillmayr ist ein eigenwilliger und hintergründiger, aber sehr lebenslustiger Ermittler. Sein geruhsames Leben auf Fuerteventura, als "Verbindungs-Kommissar für deutsche Belange", endet, als der deutsche Chemiker Armin Redeker tot in einer Bucht von Costa Calma aufgefunden wird.
Mit der ihm typischen Akribie, der Kreativität seines Assistenten José und der Gewitztheit des psychisch leicht instabilen Pathologen Georg Sanchez...
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The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language (dialogue) and objects (props) operate in the skewed world of the stage.
Therein it anticipates They Are Dying Out, the second full-length play in this volume. In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's...
46) New Poems, 1907
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Rainer Maria Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him to take a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that was published in two separate volumes under the title Neue Gedichte, or New Poems. As the celebrated Rilke translator Edward Snow observes, these books "together constitute one of the great instances of the lyric quest for objective experience." Here is the...
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Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."
48) Duino Elegies
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
-from "The First Elegy"
Over the last fifteen-years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book...
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“Kaspar” is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and a logical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes creative-"doing his own thing" with words; for this he is destroyed.
In “Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation”, one-character "speak-ins,"...
51) Poems
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Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume-filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons-that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own,...
52) Poems (1913)
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The Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914) wrote with a singular voice that captivated a wide range of admirers: the philosophers Heidegger and Wittgenstein; fellow writers and poets like Beckett, Rilke, and Walser; and composers such as Webern and Hindemith.
Two collections of his poetry were prepared for publication during his lifetime. The vast majority of poems in the first book, Poems (1913), feature crystalline meters and regular rhyme schemes...
54) New Poems
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The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt"
When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic.
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Als DJ hat es Finn in der ältesten und erfolgreichsten Diskothek der Stadt relativ leicht. Fast an jedem Wochenende lernt er neue Frauen kennen. Nur leider ist für ihn nie die ›Richtige‹ dabei. Schon seit Jahren ist Finn auf der Suche nach dem Gefühl, das er als Jugendlicher verspürt hat. Damals hat sein Herz deutliche Zeichen gegeben, sobald ›die Richtige‹ vor ihm stand. Vielleicht gelingt es ihm in dieser Nacht, dieses Gefühl noch einmal...
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Heinrich von Kleists 1808 erschienenes Trauerspiel "Penthesilea" bearbeitet einen Stoff aus der griechischen Mythologie: das tödliche Zusammentreffen zwischen dem Griechenhelden Achilles und der Amazonenkönigin Penthesilea auf dem Schlachtfeld vor Troja. Kleists grausames Drama bildet ein Gegengewicht zu den idealisierenden Antikevorstellungen seiner Zeit und wurde nach seinem Erscheinen heftig kritisiert und abgelehnt. Mit seinen 24 Auftritten...
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The first English translation of Germany's leading contemporary poet.
...what is the whole surreal jokeshop
of terrors compared to the
infinitely chance little
tricks of a poem.
-from "MonoLogical Poem #1"
Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines...
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Die Machtprobe zwischen Fortuna und der Liebesfee Amorosa beschert drei Handwerksgesellen das große Los. Wie der trunksüchtige Schuster Knieriem, der brave Tischler Leim und der prunkliebende Schneider Zwirn mit ihrem Haupttreffer zurecht- oder nicht zurechtkommen, das ist Gegenstand dieser "Zauberposse"? die zu Nestroys populärsten Stücken gehört.
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