The Official Said
“Homesickness isn’t a good idea” – a story created word for word
In The Official Said, Herta Müller has invented a new literary form – a story in collages. She describes ...
Herta Müller
1953: born in Nitzkydorf, a German-speaking village in Romania1973-1976: studied German and Romanian Philology in Temeswar (also known as Timisoara)Upon completion of her studies, she worked as a translator in an engineering works.She was dismissed for refusing to work for the Romanian secret service, Securitate.Her first book, Niederungen, subsequently lay at the publishing house for four years, unpublished. It appeared in 1982, but in censored form.In 1984, the original version appeared in Germany. Thereafter, Herta Müller could no longer publish in Romania. And Securitate subjected her again and again to threats, interrogation, and her home being searched.1987: moved to Germany1989-2001: visiting professor at universities in England, America, Switzerland and Germany from 1995: member of the German Academy of Language and Poetry, Darmstadt2005: visiting Professor of German Poetics at the Free University in Berlin; a position created in memory of Heiner MüllerHerta Müller lives in Berlin. She is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.
In Homesickness is a Blue Room
Herta Müller’s famed collages combine artwork and poetry, language and image, play and poetic gravitas.
“Shortly after I left Romania, I travelled a great deal. I wanted to keep ...
Silk and Starvation Essays. Revised new edition
Power and resistance under dictatorship, truth and lies, sincerity and deception – these are the leitmotifs of Herta Müller’s writing.
»A single sentence from Herta Müller is as ...
My Homeland was an Appleseed
Herta Müller has fascinated readers the world over. Here, for the first time, she talks in detail about what inspired her to write and what defines her life as an author: a life history in ...
moreFather’s on the Phone with the Flies
Herta Müller creates cut-and-paste poetry, clipping individual letters, words and pictures from newspapers and magazines and gluing them together into rhymes. In this unique composition, the ...
moreAlways the same stale news and always the same uncle
Herta Müller is famed for her novels - in these essays, she writes about herself and her era, her work and her books, about history, politics and morality. A significant book about a violent ...
moreTraveling on One Leg
Irene has been driven away by "the dictator from the other country" and finds herself a foreigner in Germany. In this new place, things are given names that don’t seem to fit, and are nothing ...
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