Door Languages. Translated by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
Door Languages, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright’s brilliant translation [within a bilingual edition], sends us news of the stranger within us who keeps putting on and taking off a cloak of invisibility. This is bracing work. Line by insinuating line, Zafer Şenocak peels back our most rigid assumptions. These poems, marked by the highest ambition, read like […]
Facing the Bridge, Translated by Maragret Mitsutani
“In Front of Trang Tien Bridge” (translated from Japanese to English by Margaret Mitsutani) is Yoko Tawada’s second story in her three story collection Facing the Bridge, a work that focuses on the alienation people face when living in places other than their “homeland.” Kazuko Minamiyama, a Japanese woman in her mid-30s, is living in […]
The Naked Eye. Translated by Susan Bernofsky
In Yoko Tawada’s The Naked Eye a Vietnamese student travels to East Berlin to give a lecture on “Vietnam As a Victim of American Imperialism,” only to be smuggled against her will to the other side of the Iron Curtain. She then tries to catch a train to Moscow but instead finds herself in Paris, […]
Der heilige Eddy
Der heilige Eddy handelt vom mysteriösen Verschwinden eines Berliner Großunternehmers und High-Society-Stars, von Klatschjournalisten, einer Stadt außer Rand und Band, einem Volkshelden wider Willen – und vom wunderbarsten Duft der Welt. Links: www.diogenes.ch www.zeit.de
Marwa S. — Prozess gegen Alex W.
Artikelsammlung zu Marwa S. und Info über den Prozessbeginn Spiegel Online: Der Fall Marwa
Übergang. Ausgewählte Gedichte 1980-2005
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Günther Wallraff Blacks Up for New Film “Schwarz auf Weiß”
Official Film Website Spiegel: “Kritik an neuem Wallraff-Film. Einfach nur der Fremde” Deutsche Welle: “New film aims to uncover latent, and blatant, German racism” Tagesschau: “Interview: Ein angemalter Weißer ist kein Schwarzer”
Berlin’s Nefertiti Trouble
Spiegel Online: Egyptian Official Calls Museum Behavior ‘Suspicious’ October 20, 2009 Spiegel Online: Nefertiti Gets a New Palace: Revamped Neues Museum Finally Opens in Berlin New York Times online: When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns October 16, 2009 Amidst the highly anticipated reopening of Berlin’s Neues Museum, Zahi Hawass, head of the Egyptian Supreme […]