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Germany likes to call itself “Land der Dichter und Denker” (country of poets and thinkers), and it is true that a lot of writers and a lot of philosophers, not to mention other famous people, were German or of German origin. So join us today for a lesson on the most basic epochs of German literature and the most famous German authors! Deutschland nennt sich gerne “Land der Dichter und Denker”, und es ist auch wahr, dass viele Schriftsteller und viele Philosophen, ganz zu schweigen von anderen berühmten Leuten, Deutsche waren und deutsche Wurzeln hatten. Also hört euch heute eine Lektion über die wichtigsten Epochen deutscher Literatur und die berühmtesten deutschen Autoren an!
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This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Advanced Audio Blogs . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
3 Responses to “Advanced Audio Blog #12 - German literature”
Friday at 6:30 pm
How many famous German authors can you name? Whose books have you read?
Saturday at 1:00 pm
Thank you so much for the great blog ! In my last year in highschool, my german teacher made us study a lot of german literature, and we read “Effi Briest” by Fontane, among others. It was the best year I had studying the language !
I’ve long wanted to read “Buddenbrooks” and “Die Zauberberg” too. I should probably try this summer !
Tuesday at 5:12 am
You know, if you actually make your way through both of these Mann books you will probably earn the respect of many Germans, too. Seriously: I am German, I love to read, but I just don’t get the hype about this entire family (to put it mildly). Many people I know don’t get it either.
Personally I am considering reading the Magic Mountain too, only… the product description on Amazon.de doesn’t sound all that tempting:
“Die erste magische Leistung besteht darin, eine Handlung, die in einem Satz zusammengefaßt werden kann, auf 1.000 Seiten zu packen: Der junge Hamburger Hans Castorp, Sproß einer Patrizierfamilie lebt bis zum Ausbruch des ersten Weltkriegs sieben Jahre in einem Schweizer Luxussanatorium für Lungenkranke, ohne selbst krank zu sein.”
So, yeah, considering to read a story that can be told in one sentence but happens to be 1.000 pages long, kinda sound masochistic to me…
However:
While I am not a really big fan of that family, my personal favorit is Klaus. Thomas just drags on endlessly and I never read Erika or Heinrich. But Klaus Mann is really good. “Mephisto” and “Der Wendepunkt” were both rather enjoyable.
And:
I don’t think I found his name on some of these “xxx best books you just need to read in order for your life to have had any meaning at all.”-lists yet.
Thomas Mann won’t run away. And Klaus is way less frustrating. ^_~
Just my personal recommandation. ^^’
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