Karl or The Last Communist
Karl and Emilie are children of the war and post-war years, born into the silence of a provincial family. But while his sister increasingly cuts herself off, Karl becomes a leading agitator of ...
moreEberhard Rathgeb
Eberhard Rathgeb, born in Buenos Aires in 1959, lives in the north German countryside. For his first novel Kein Paar wie wir (2013), he was awarded the Aspekte Literary Prize. His most recent novels were Das Paradiesghetto (2014) and Cooper (2016).
Cooper
A day like any other. A young family sets off in high spirits on a car journey: to a little house in the country which the parents have bought to spend nice weekends. But in the darkness, ...
moreThe Heavenly Ghetto
»If only I could talk to someone, she thought, staring out into the silence, no longer able to bear the loneliness.«
Eliza is old. The tears may come, but she won’t give in to them – ...
The Unforgettable Couple
Ruth and Vika are happy women; they have no husbands and no children. They’ve lived a rich and varied life, travelled the world and kept their memories alive. But desire and hope still sparkle ...
moreDifficult Joy
Here is the mother, there is the child – Eberhard Rathgeb pays tribute to the third in the trio: the father. And he does so in the only manner appropriate for such intimate issues: on the basis ...
moreInventory
What remains of six decades of literature in German? Writer Norbert Niemann and critic Eberhard Rathgeb provide the answers, long overdue, from today's perspective.
For many years, the ...