The postwar German author, whose centenary is being celebrated today, published his well-known novel Deutschstunde in 1968: a chillingly precise and relevant story of ordinary people just “doing their job” under the Nazis.
From the Goethe Institut: “When Siegfried Lenz died in 2014, it was estimated that over 30 million copies of his works had been sold worldwide. His oeuvre comprises 14 novels, 120 short stories, numerous novellas and dramas for radio and theatre. They have been translated into at least 35 languages. Many of his short stories, especially the bizarre East Prussian stories from his volume of novellas So zärtlich war Suleyken (So Tender Was Suleyken), are prescribed reading in schools. Published in 1968, The German Lesson has become one of the most internationally prominent novels in German contemporary literature.”
Filed under: German literature, literature
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 