Thanks for the suggestions. I've read the Kafka and Berlin Alexanderplatz, and just finished Die Blechtrommel (same dtv edition that you have). Also lately reading Joseph Roth and Hans Falada. The experimental novels look out of my depth, both financially and linguistically. Maybe I'll look for some Christa Wolf.
Great video!! I love German Literature and philosophy, and always love filling in my blindspots, so glad you included some more modern authors!! For those interested: Heinrich Heine was actually born Harry Heine into a Jewish family and struggled to find work due to the virulent antisemetism of the time. He later converted in an attempt to gain better prospects, adopting the name Heinrich, but still struggled. This lead to a lot of the feelings of isolation he held in his life, but it is not surprising that anyone could find a queer lens to view his poetry as he most certainly was queer. Many believe he had an unrequited love for his cousin, Amalie. Only adding to the sadness and isolation he experienced in his life.
No Thomas Bernhardt? Hope you haven’t accidentally overlooked the greatest writer in German of the latter part of the 20th century!? Or that you’ll be doing a special on him soon?? Love to see someone specializing in German Literature on RUclips - I’ve read the obvious ones, Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, The Tin Drum (twice), The Castle, The Trial and the first three are among my favorite books. Plan on reading Berlin Alexanderplatz, Cassandra this year plus have my unabridged Uwe Johnson lined up on my kindle. Still can’t understand the omission of Thomas Bernhardt though….
@@Kujiranoai I'll get to him in due time! Had to really narrow down from a much longer list and there were some folks I absolutely wanted to include. Thank you for watching!
@@gbk7288I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be seeing it one day while I catch up with the rest of your videos, thanks for all your efforts. Wondering if “A Man Without Qualities” will get an episode one day, as I’m not sure I’m ready for the hard work reading it seems to entail.
Thank you. I would love it if you did another video on current German writers. Jenny Erpenbeck is one prominent voice, but no doubt there are many others.
Forgot to mention, my video on the Spiegel 100 list has a good amount of contemporary works listed. The overall list (which is linked there) is really excellent as well: ruclips.net/video/7Y9FLM6_MlY/видео.html
You do need some Rilke in there! My collected works that I picked up in Tübingen when I lived there is still one of my most loved, most read books.
@@samwisegrangee Rilke is great! Thank you for watching!
Thanks for the suggestions. I've read the Kafka and Berlin Alexanderplatz, and just finished Die Blechtrommel (same dtv edition that you have). Also lately reading Joseph Roth and Hans Falada. The experimental novels look out of my depth, both financially and linguistically. Maybe I'll look for some Christa Wolf.
@@gscott5062 thanks for watching! Christa Wolf is great!
Great video!! I love German Literature and philosophy, and always love filling in my blindspots, so glad you included some more modern authors!!
For those interested: Heinrich Heine was actually born Harry Heine into a Jewish family and struggled to find work due to the virulent antisemetism of the time. He later converted in an attempt to gain better prospects, adopting the name Heinrich, but still struggled. This lead to a lot of the feelings of isolation he held in his life, but it is not surprising that anyone could find a queer lens to view his poetry as he most certainly was queer. Many believe he had an unrequited love for his cousin, Amalie. Only adding to the sadness and isolation he experienced in his life.
@@belalugosi9404 thank you for watching! Heine is very important to me!
No Thomas Bernhardt? Hope you haven’t accidentally overlooked the greatest writer in German of the latter part of the 20th century!? Or that you’ll be doing a special on him soon??
Love to see someone specializing in German Literature on RUclips - I’ve read the obvious ones, Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, The Tin Drum (twice), The Castle, The Trial and the first three are among my favorite books. Plan on reading Berlin Alexanderplatz, Cassandra this year plus have my unabridged Uwe Johnson lined up on my kindle.
Still can’t understand the omission of Thomas Bernhardt though….
@@Kujiranoai I'll get to him in due time! Had to really narrow down from a much longer list and there were some folks I absolutely wanted to include. Thank you for watching!
@@gbk7288I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be seeing it one day while I catch up with the rest of your videos, thanks for all your efforts. Wondering if “A Man Without Qualities” will get an episode one day, as I’m not sure I’m ready for the hard work reading it seems to entail.
Thank you. I would love it if you did another video on current German writers. Jenny Erpenbeck is one prominent voice, but no doubt there are many others.
@@DanSisken thank you for watching! This is a great idea!
Forgot to mention, my video on the Spiegel 100 list has a good amount of contemporary works listed. The overall list (which is linked there) is really excellent as well: ruclips.net/video/7Y9FLM6_MlY/видео.html
Oh, nice! I've been into German literature for the last three years. There are a lot of writers here I've never heard of. Thank you.
@@marcelhidalgo1076 thank you for watching! I hope you find some great stuff to read!
Hallo from Brazil!
@@AJAZZist sup! Thanks for watching!