Parallel German text and English translation Includes bibliographical references and indexes Reinhold Grimm and Irmgard Hunt: Prefatory Note Reinhold Grimm and Irmgard Hunt: Prefatory Note Arno Holz (1863-1929): From: Phantasus Richard Dehmel (1863-1920): The Quiet Town Frank Wedekind (1864-1918): The Blind Youth Max Dauthendey (1867-1918): Inside the Bouquet Stefan George (1868-1933): [Untitled] ; [Untitled] Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945): My People ; My Blue Piano Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929): The Two ; Evanescence August Stramm (1874-1915): Reconnaissance Patrol ; Assault Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): The Panther ; Woman Going Blind ; Childhood Franz Kafka (1883-1924): In the Evening's Gentle Sunshine Ernst Stadler (1883-1914): On Crossing the Rhine Bridge at Cologne by Night Oskar Loerke (1884-1941): From: "At the Edge of the Great City" ; Envoi ; Down There ; Winter Evening, Berlin Gottfried Benn (1886-1956): Subway Train ; A Word Georg Trakl (1887-1914): Dream of Evil ; The West ; Sleep ; Grodek Jakob van Hoddis (a.k.a. Hans Davidsohn) (1887-1942): End of the World Hans Arp (1887-1966): Kaspar Is Dead Georg Heyn (1887-1912): Umbra Vitae ; Why Do You Come, White Moths ... ; With Pointed Head She Rises ... ; Clearer Now the Days Are Passing ... Alfred Lichtenstein (1889-1914): Morning Franz Werfel (1890-1945): A Man Is Dumb ; The Lasting Things Yvan Goll (1891-1950): Journey into Misery ; In Age-Old Lakes ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] Nelly Sachs (1891-1970): In the Blue Distance ; Oh Those Smokestacks ; Mouth Sucking in Death Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943): The Unicorn Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956): Of Poor B.B. ; To Those Born Later Elisabeth Langgasser (1899-1950): Daphne Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974): Hiroshima ; Not Courageous ; Outside the Door ; A Poem ; Genazzano Rose Auslander (1901-1988): The Well ; In the Color of Sleep ; So That No Light Would Remain to Love Us Hans Sahl (1902-1993): A Charter Flight into the Past Peter Huchel (1903-1981): Roads ; [Untitled] ; Rome ; Aristeas (II) Gunter Eich (1907-1972): Inventory ; Where I Live ; The Man in the Blue Smock ; The End of a Summer Ernst Meister (1911-1979): At That Place Was Another House Hilde Domin (1912- ): Remigration Karl Krolow (1915-1999): Free Fall ; Fear ; Robinson ; The Wind in the Room ; In the Rearview Mirror Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965): East ; Invocation ; Deserted Village ; Report ; Trakl Paul Celan (1920-1970): Pslam ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] Erich Fried (1921-1988): Logos ; Naturalization ; Invitation to Forget ; Retrospect Helmut Heissenbuttel (1921-1996): Fragment III ; [Untitled] Ilse Aichinger (1921- ): Winter Answer ; Correspondence Walter Hollerer (1922- ): Tarry Awhile, Restless Bird ; Particularly Effortless He Lay Friederike Mayrocker (1924- ): Ostia Will Receive You Margot Scharpenberg (1924- ): Field to Red Tulips Eugen Gomringer (1925- ): Words ; [Untitled Concrete Poem] Wolfgang Bachler (1925- ): A Revolt in the Mirror Ernst Jandl (1925-2000): At the Delicatessen Shop ; Pockets ; A summer song Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973): Every Day ; Land of Fog ; The Firstborn Land ; A Paean to the Sun ; Verily Gunter Grass (1927- ): Transformation ; Afterwards Heiner Muller (1929-1995): Brecht Gunter Kunert (1929- ): Venice Lost ; Theatrum Mundi ; The Jewish Cemetery at Berlin-Weissensee ; Sestri Levante (Liguria II) Walter Helmut Fritz (1929- ): Almost Bashfully ; The Fiasco ; Columbus ; Atlantis ; Labyrinth ; Love Poem (II) Cyrus Atabay (1929-1996): Pallas Peter Ruhmkorf (1929- ): Formerly, When We Still Parted the Big Rivers Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929- ): For the Primer of Senior High ; In Memory of William Carlos Williams ; Old Revolution ; Finnish Tango ; War, Like ; The Rich ; In Memory of Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916) Jurgen Becker (1932- ): In the Proximity of Andy Warhol Reiner Kunze (1933- ): The Wall Christoph Meckel (1935- ): Speaking of the Poem Sarah Kirsch (1935- ): Already the Air Smells of Snow ; Winterly Music ; I Am Very Gentle ; I Wanted to Kill My King Helga Novak (1935- ): Letter to Medea Volker Braun (1939- ): Desert Storm Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975): Self-Portrait in the Supermarket Irmgard Elsner Hunt (1944- ): Midday Ursula Krechel (1947- ): Early November ; To Mainz! Friederike Roth (1948- ): Marriage ; From: "meadow and might" Holger Teschke (1958- ): The Massacre of the Innocents ; Documentary Film Arno Holz (1863-1929): From: Phantasus Richard Dehmel (1863-1920): The Quiet Town Frank Wedekind (1864-1918): The Blind Youth Max Dauthendey (1867-1918): Inside the Bouquet Stefan George (1868-1933): [Untitled] ; [Untitled] Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945): My People ; My Blue Piano Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929): The Two ; Evanescence August Stramm (1874-1915): Reconnaissance Patrol ; Assault Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): The Panther ; Woman Going Blind ; Childhood Franz Kafka (1883-1924): In the Evening's Gentle Sunshine Ernst Stadler (1883-1914): On Crossing the Rhine Bridge at Cologne by Night Oskar Loerke (1884-1941): From: "At the Edge of the Great City" ; Envoi ; Down There ; Winter Evening, Berlin Gottfried Benn (1886-1956): Subway Train ; A Word Georg Trakl (1887-1914): Dream of Evil ; The West ; Sleep ; Grodek Jakob van Hoddis (a.k.a. Hans Davidsohn) (1887-1942): End of the World Hans Arp (1887-1966): Kaspar Is Dead Georg Heyn (1887-1912): Umbra Vitae ; Why Do You Come, White Moths ... ; With Pointed Head She Rises ... ; Clearer Now the Days Are Passing ... Alfred Lichtenstein (1889-1914): Morning Franz Werfel (1890-1945): A Man Is Dumb ; The Lasting Things Yvan Goll (1891-1950): Journey into Misery ; In Age-Old Lakes ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] Nelly Sachs (1891-1970): In the Blue Distance ; Oh Those Smokestacks ; Mouth Sucking in Death Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943): The Unicorn Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956): Of Poor B.B. ; To Those Born Later Elisabeth Langgasser (1899-1950): Daphne Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974): Hiroshima ; Not Courageous ; Outside the Door ; A Poem ; Genazzano Rose Auslander (1901-1988): The Well ; In the Color of Sleep ; So That No Light Would Remain to Love Us Hans Sahl (1902-1993): A Charter Flight into the Past Peter Huchel (1903-1981): Roads ; [Untitled] ; Rome ; Aristeas (II) Gunter Eich (1907-1972): Inventory ; Where I Live ; The Man in the Blue Smock ; The End of a Summer Ernst Meister (1911-1979): At That Place Was Another House Hilde Domin (1912- ): Remigration Karl Krolow (1915-1999): Free Fall ; Fear ; Robinson ; The Wind in the Room ; In the Rearview Mirror Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965): East ; Invocation ; Deserted Village ; Report ; Trakl Paul Celan (1920-1970): Pslam ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] Erich Fried (1921-1988): Logos ; Naturalization ; Invitation to Forget ; Retrospect Helmut Heissenbuttel (1921-1996): Fragment III ; [Untitled] Ilse Aichinger (1921- ): Winter Answer ; Correspondence Walter Hollerer (1922- ): Tarry Awhile, Restless Bird ; Particularly Effortless He Lay Friederike Mayrocker (1924- ): Ostia Will Receive You Margot Scharpenberg (1924- ): Field to Red Tulips Eugen Gomringer (1925- ): Words ; [Untitled Concrete Poem] Wolfgang Bachler (1925- ): A Revolt in the Mirror Ernst Jandl (1925-2000): At the Delicatessen Shop ; Pockets ; A summer song Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973): Every Day ; Land of Fog ; The Firstborn Land ; A Paean to the Sun ; Verily Gunter Grass (1927- ): Transformation ; Afterwards Heiner Muller (1929-1995): Brecht Gunter Kunert (1929- ): Venice Lost ; Theatrum Mundi ; The Jewish Cemetery at Berlin-Weissensee ; Sestri Levante (Liguria II) Walter Helmut Fritz (1929- ): Almost Bashfully ; The Fiasco ; Columbus ; Atlantis ; Labyrinth ; Love Poem (II) Cyrus Atabay (1929-1996): Pallas Peter Ruhmkorf (1929- ): Formerly, When We Still Parted the Big Rivers Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929- ): For the Primer of Senior High ; In Memory of William Carlos Williams ; Old Revolution ; Finnish Tango ; War, Like ; The Rich ; In Memory of Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916) Jurgen Becker (1932- ): In the Proximity of Andy Warhol Reiner Kunze (1933- ): The Wall Christoph Meckel (1935- ): Speaking of the Poem Sarah Kirsch (1935- ): Already the Air Smells of Snow ; Winterly Music ; I Am Very Gentle ; I Wanted to Kill My King Helga Novak (1935- ): Letter to Medea Volker Braun (1939- ): Desert Storm Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975): Self-Portrait in the Supermarket Irmgard Elsner Hunt (1944- ): Midday Ursula Krechel (1947- ): Early November ; To Mainz! Friederike Roth (1948- ): Marriage ; From: "meadow and might" Holger Teschke (1958- ): The Massacre of the Innocents ; Documentary Film |
