From the Frankfurt School to the new storytellers
MORENO LUIS FERNANDO CLEAR
Sixteen thinkers, novelists, poets, artists and playwrights who represent German culture. Heirs of classics such as Goethe, Schiller, Hesse and Böll, and Grass and Sebald contemporaries
MORENO LUIS FERNANDO CLEAR
Sixteen thinkers, novelists, poets, artists and playwrights who represent German culture. Heirs of classics such as Goethe, Schiller, Hesse and Böll, and Grass and Sebald contemporaries
Jürgen Habermas (Düsseldorf, 1929)
is the philosopher of the age "postmetaphysical." Collaborating with the mythical Adorno and Horkheimer, his ideas continue the critical work of the so-called School Frankfurt. Heir to the 68 but critical radicalism ("never understood dogmatism"), the author of Theory of Communicative Action said he was "atypical philosopher" and who has never tried to make an unequivocal and closed view of the world, supported on a single truth irrefutable, but of an open world that is held on "small truths." In 1968 he published his landmark work knowledge and interest, difficult but crucial, with which Habermas sought to continue the project of modernity without dogmas and fixed ideas and in constant dialogue with reality, further illustrated the struggle for freedom at any cost, at political and individual. FERNANDO LUIS MORENO Hans Magnus Enzensberger CLEAR
(Kaufbeuren, 1929)
The most versatile and cosmopolitan writers of the boomers entered the German literary scene as a poet, but displays its full power in the political essay (Policy and crime, civil war prospects, the radical loser.) Since the sixties, but a German writer, is a European writer, thanks to its vocation of multilingual traveler-reader and his ability to bring together the contemporary thinking of the most diverse countries. Is familiar with both literatures as with the Scandinavian and Latin American English (translated, among others, Alberti and Vallejo). His biographical novel The short summer of anarchy. Life and death of Durruti marked generations of readers. His literary work as a mediator between Spain and Germany in 2002 earned him the Prince of Asturias Award. Cecily Alexander Kluge DREYMÜLLER
(Halberstadt, 1932)
Director and film producer, author of a devastating satirical program on German television, writer, lawyer and businessman nonprofit, Alexander Kluge is the intellectual among German filmmakers and more cinematic among writers. After a doctorate in law, Kluge follows the advice of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno and studied film making Fritz Lang's assistant. His first feature, A girl with no history, won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival (which would follow two other Golden Lions). Emblematic titles of his films are: The Patriot, Germany in Autumn, The power of feelings in his book River-composed of hundreds of short stories "of life as possible" - highlights the gap left by the devil and Film History ( both in Anagram). C.
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Volker Braun (Dresden, 1939)
Village Poet and critical observer of the first social and political reality of the GDR, where he received all the honors, also being watched by the secret services and later in Germany reunified, Volker Braun, avid defender of the socialist utopia, he studied philosophy and worked as a factory worker. From 1966 he published his first poetry book Suhrkamp, \u200b\u200btemporary things, parallel published in the GDR and the FRG. In the seventies and eighties, his plays, including The unfinished story are represented in Europe. Among his poetry collections include The slow grinding of the morning, playground, Prussia and to the beautiful farces. In 1988 he received the Grand Prize of the State of the GDR in 2000, the Georg Büchner Prize. C. Reinhard
DREYMÜLLER Jirgl
(Berlin, 1953) Chronicler
social traumas and individual tragedies division and reunification of Germany, Reinhard Jirgl takes the low perspective of the losers of history. To reproduce the language of radical misfits Jirgl invented a phonetic script with its own spelling system. Only after the fall of the Wall, was published and awarded a prize dozen novels stored in the drawer. Both his trilogy of the GDR, Genealogy of the killing, as the generational novel, The Incomplete (2003), about the fate of the Sudeten Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia, Jirgl certify as a stubborn and caustic chronicler of Germany's past and present. Renegade published in 2005. Novel nervous times, in 2009 his large family saga Silence. In 2010 received Georg Büchner Prize. C. Cornelia Funke
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(Dorsten, 1958)
Cornelia Funke is the heir to the great Michael Ende in the realm of fantasy. Following the publication of his trilogy World Tinta (Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, Siruela, 2004-2008), became one of the authors of reference of the genre that has dominated children's literature in the last decade. With fifty published titles, including novels, stories for children and youth, many of them made into movies and in 2005 was chosen by Time magazine as "one of the most influential people in the world." In 2010 appeared, with a spectacular launch simultaneously in 12 countries, Reckless. Stoneflesh first title of his latest ambitious literary project: Mirror World, a transgressive and disturbing series inspired by traditional fairy tales. VICTORIA FERNANDEZ
Kathrin Schmidt (Gotha, 1958)
Kathrin Schmidt, the author of the feminist novel lush Issuance Lennefsen Gunnar (Tusquets), studied psychology and worked as a child psychologist, journalist and sociologist. Known first as a poet, which in 1993 won the Leonce-und-Lena poetry, has also made a name as a novelist with black cats Seebach, dealing with harassment by the secret services of the GDR, and Sons Koenig, addressing the uprooting experienced by many citizens of the GDR after the fall of the Wall. In 2009 she won the German Book Prize for best novel with autobiographical account of the gradual recovery of memory after a medical coma, not die. Recent books: the blind Bees poems and stories take Finito. Let página.C. Ralf König
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(Soest, 1960)
Apprentice carpenter, crossed the comic in your life to become his profession. First from the alternative comics, where he had the fortunes of the German gay magazines for minority, almost suddenly, move to the popular success with two works: The condom murderer and the Man Wanted. Since then, his vitriolic vision of human relationships transcends the boundaries of sexual orientation, with comics that are always sharp reflections on the human being without losing sight of strict militancy in defense of gay rights that avoids self-criticism more scathing. His comics walk both the peculiar manners as queer and bold adaptations of classics of Greek literature (Lysistrata), Shakespeare or the Bible. Alvaro Pons
Uwe Timm (Hamburg, 1940)
After studying philosophy and Germanics, participated as a leading member in the student movement German 1968. Several of his novels are best to understand this time. Left-wing social and political writer (but critical of the RDA), attacked the prejudices of the generation that embraced the Nazis - why the Germans under Hitler's delusions of grandeur seconded the dictator? -. Among his many works include After the shadow of my brother (Target), a unique novel in the form of research report in which the personality of his older brother at age 19 enlisted in the SS and a member of a battalion of extermination of Jews . In Castilian we also have the night of San Juan (Alfaguara), an entertaining account of the chaotic German reunification. LIGHT BROWN LF
Monika Maron (Berlin, 1941)
The main theme of the East German Monika Maron is the relationship between the two Germanies before and after the Unification in 1990. Fly ash, published in the Federal Republic in 1981, is the first book that denounced the environmental problems caused by heavy industry of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He left the country a year before the Berlin Wall fell, and far from the official state ideology. Lives in Berlin, where he was born in 1941. Monika Maron, stepdaughter of the late Minister of Interior of the GDR Karl Maron, happened with the Stasi (the dreaded political police of the RDA) something like Günter Grass with Nazi SS: after spending years in public criticizing his colleagues, acknowledged that she had worked for them. JUAN GOMEZ
Botho Strauss (Naumburg an der Saale, 1944)
is one of the most successful German dramatists and projection. In the seventies, plays like The reunion Trilogy hypochondriacs and placed him among the first swords in German literature. There has never shied away from controversy, or the theater or narrative. In the eighties was the target of criticism for his narrative, branded as reactionary and anti-modern. Strongly influenced by thinkers like Heidegger, his criticism bourgeois society has led critics say, a radically conservative postures. He says he does not take much consideration this concept, because "ultimately, the whole epic of thought emerged: the glorious days are long past." The decline, therefore, "has always been here." J. GÓMEZ
Rüdiger Safranski (Rottweil, 1945)
is the essayist (and historian of ideas) with the greatest impact within and outside Germany. His brilliant and affordable biographies of ETA Hoffmann, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Schiller have won hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Safranski traces what is known about his biography and, in a very particular approach to their lives, their works and the historical circumstances surrounding them, get books entertaining and full of information wisely proportioned to seduce an educated public and the more specialized. One of his recent success has been Romanticism (Tusquets), a work that traces linked by brief biographies vision of this movement as German. In Castilian his latest work will soon appear on the friendship between Goethe and Schiller. LIGHT BROWN LF
Ingo Schulze (Dresden, 1962) Author
"revelation" that has emerged from the former GDR. His early novels dealt with the collapse of that state sovietised liar and dictatorial, with a new language and sharp. The impact of policy in the general public due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union are a favorite theme. In her successful literary debut, 33 Moments of Happiness (Destination), traces a human mosaic of situations hilarious, grotesque, tragicomic describing a disrupted Russia without Communism. In Simple stories, as in his latest book, Online (the two in Target), deals with the disappointments of individuals immersed in a world that has lost its meaning, either that of the former East Germany or dominated by the tyranny of the mobile phone. LIGHT BROWN LF
Richard David Precht
(Solingen, 1964)
Because of its reputation as for their worth, is today a landmark in the German cultural scene. Following a previous publication, as Noah's Inheritance (2000), in defense of animals, for his novel The cosmonauts (2002), love and death, or of his autobiographical Lenin came only to Lüdenscheid (2005), the great Success came with "Who am y. .. many? (Ariel, 2009), a kind of philosophical journey. " Continues its success with Love A feeling messy (forthcoming Siruela), and in 2010 with the art of not being selfish, we could qualify as the ethics of Precht. Both from the philosophy, sociology and psychology and from the science (neuroscience, genetics and evolution), Precht will illuminate issues of great interest in an attractive and accessible. A popularizer nothing vulgar, an intellectual understandable. Ulf K. REGUERA ISIDORO
(Oberhausen, 1969) Author
crystal clear picture, the work of Ulf K. stands out as a form of personal graphic poetry that works the symbolism of the story to capture the reader from childhood nostalgia and move to an environment friendly appearance that hides reflections on the darker aspects of human transcendence. Death and love stand as visual poems recurring elements of a transvestite melancholy romanticism surrealism in chiaroscuro, represented perfectly by the character of Hieronymus B., (edited by Dibbuks) clerk sentenced to a life gray can escape only through the dream of utopia. The delicate outline of the author softens the radical expressionism of Frans Masereel, but keeps intact the power of his message. Á. Daniel Kehlmann
PONS (Munich, 1975)
At just 30 years, Daniel Kehlmann reached unprecedented success with Measuring the World. Sold over a million and half copies of novels, biographies and scientific naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Two men from the early nineteenth century with lives and personalities opposing parallel. His aspiration was negligible "in front of a satirical and playful with what it means to be German" telling the lives of these two leading figure of the prelude to the founding of modern Germany. In 2009 he published his latest book, Glory, where it leaves the laconic style of the bestseller of 2005 and open to experimenting with the themes and structure. Divided into nine parts, is the story of a writer who dreams of a novel without a protagonist.
