Martin Walser

Suhrkamp Taschenbücher, Nr.94, Halbzeit

Der Zufall führt zwei Ehepaare im Urlaub zusammen. Die Männer, Endvierziger, waren Studienfreunde. Während Helmut Halm nichts mehr vom Leben erwartet, ihm zu entfliehen sucht, jagt der vitale Klaus Buch von einer Tätigkeit zur nächsten und bestimmt auch bald das Urlaubsprogramm. Die Kluft zwischen den Männern wächst, bis hin zu dem Tag, als sie beim Segeln in ein Unwetter geraten. Die Ausnahmesituation führt zum dramatischen Kampf zwischen den beiden.

Novelle

Ein fliehendes Pferd

Szenen.

Aus dem Wortschatz unserer Kämpfe.

Roman

Brandung

Der Jahre dauernde Kampf des Beamten Fink gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Machtmissbrauch im Amt wird für ihn zum Kampf auf Leben und Tod.

Finks Krieg

Tagebücher 1951-1962

Leben und Schreiben

Tagebücher 1979-1981

Schreiben und Leben

"Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle. In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann basks in the affection of the colorful staff and regulars at the Station Restaurant. Though his parents struggle to make ends meet, around him the world is rich in mystery: the attraction of girls; the power of words and his gift for music; his rivalry with his best friend, Adolf, son of the local Brownshirt leader; a circus that comes to town bringing Anita, whose love he and Adolf compete to win. But in these hard times, with businesses failing all around them and life savings gone in an instant, people whisper that only Hitler can save them. As the Nazis gradually infiltrate the churches, the school, the youth organizations-even the restaurant-and come to power, we see through Johann's eyes how the voices of dissent are silenced one by one, until war begins the body count that will include his beloved older brother"--

a novel

A gushing fountain

Ein liebender Mann

Ein sterbender Mann

The Unicorn

Tod eines Kritikers

eine Festschrift für Martin Walser ; Ringvorlesung an der Universität Hildesheim im Wintersemester 1996/97 ; mit Martin Walsers Rede "Noch ein Versuch, dem Zeitgeist zu antworten"

Identität und Schreiben

The Rabbit Race

Plays: The rabbit race, adapted by R. Duncan. The detour, translated by R. Grunberger

Christopher Hampton

Alissa Walser

Folke Braband

Tribüne (Berlin, West)

(Les liaisons dangereuses) ; [Programmheft]

Gefährliche Liebschaften

Clocot

roman

Moartea unui critic

dreissig Charakterbilder

Die Schamlose, das Glückskind und all die anderen

For readers of Colm Toibin’s The Master and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide, was an international blockbuster that set off a wave of self-inflicted deaths across Europe. Now seventy-three, sought after and busy with scientific pursuits and responsibilities to the Grand Duke, he has fallen in love with a nineteen-year-old, Ulrike von Levetzov. Infatuated, at the spa in Marienbad, he seeks her out. They exchange glances, witty words. In the social swirl, they find each other. On the promenade, they parade together arm in arm. Time spent away from her is sleepless, and when they kiss, it is in the “Goethian” way, from his books: a matter of souls, not mouths or lips. And yet, his years fail him. At an afternoon tea party, a younger man tries to seduce her. At a costume ball, he collapses. When he proposes nonetheless, Ulrike and her mother are already preparing to leave. Caught in a storm of emotion and torn between despair and unwillingness to give up hope, he begins an elegy in his coach as he pursues her: “The Marienbad Elegy,” one of his last great works.

A Novel

A Man in Love

Martin Walser

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