Welcome, new dreams
With its compelling lucidity and masterful narrative control, Norbert Niemann's superb new novel confirms this author's ranking – focusing on the inhabitants of a village, he captures the ...
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Norbert Niemann was born in Lower Bavaria in 1961, and studied literature, music and history. He has been a full-time writer since 1997, living near Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria. He was awarded the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize for his debut novel Wie man's nimmt (1998). 2001 his second novel, Schule der Gewalt, appeared.
Inventory
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 ...
School of Violence
Frank Beck is 38, divorced, and the father of a twelve-year-old daughter. He is also insecure, dissatisfied, and burnt out. Nadja, the intelligent and unreachable seventeen-year-old, on the other ...
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How You Take It
Peter Schönlein is a lucky man, both privately and professionally. Marriage, family, the workplace, the daily round, every area of the restorer's life has a movie-like sheen, burnished with ...
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