1965 East Germany’s Short-Lived Summer
It was a brief summer. In mid-1965 the East German Republic attempted to extract itself from the stranglehold of the Soviet Union and grant its artists and intellectuals greater freedom of ...
moreGunnar Decker
Gunnar Decker was born in 1965. He is a graduate philosopher who lives and works in Berlin as a full-time writer. Editor of the journal Theater der Zeit, his most recent publications include Gottfried Benn. Genie und Barbar (2006), Franz Fühmann. Die Kunst des Scheiterns (2009) and Georg Heym. ‘Ich, ein zerrissenes Meer.` (2011).
Hermann Hesse
To mark the 50th anniversary of Hesse’s death on August 9th 2012, Gunnar Decker presents a comprehensive new biography. Decker liberates Hesse from the ideological misrepresentations foisted on ...
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