The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century German Poems

Michael Hofmann

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2011
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571262892
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf.

'Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person.' Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books

'It is probably impossible to produce poetry of this quality that is tuned more precisely to the timbre of the present than Michael Hofmann's. Rapture is the only adequate response.' Geoff Dyer, Guardian

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN 1871–1914
• Introduction
• ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER 1869–1945
• RAINER MARIA RILKE 1875–1926
• PAUL KLEE 1879–1940
• ERNST STADLER 1883–1914
• GOTTFRIED BENN 1886–1956
• GEORG HEYM 1887–1912
• JAKOB VAN HODDIS 1887–1942
• GEORG TRAKL 1887–1914
• HANS ARP 1887–1966
• KURT SCHWITTERS 1887–1947
• FRANZ WERFEL 1890–1945
• NELLY SACHS 1891–1970
• GEORGE GROSZ 1893–1959
• BERTOLT BRECHT 1898–1956
• PETER HUCHEL 1903–1981
• GÜNTER EICH 1907–1972
• ERNST MEISTER 1911–1979
• JOHANNES BOBROWSKI 1917–1965
• RAINER BRAMBACH 1917–83
• PAUL CELAN(1920–1970)
• FRIEDERIKE MAYRÖCKER 1924–
• ERNST JANDL 1925–2000
• HEINZ PIONTEK 1925–2003
• INGE MÜLLER 1925–1966
• INGEBORG BACHMANN 1926–1973
• OSKAR PASTIOR 1927–
• HERTHA KRÄFTNER 1928 –1951
• GÜNTER GRASS 1927–
• GÜNTER KUNERT 1929–
• HEINER MÜLLER 1929–1995
• HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER 1929–
• ADOLF ENDLER 1930–
• JÜRGEN BECKER 1932–
• REINER KUNZE 1933–
• SARAH KIRSCH 1935–
• CHRISTOPH MECKEL 1935–
• KURT BARTSCH 1937–
• NICOLAS BORN 1937–1979
• ELKE ERB 1938–
• VOLKER BRAUN 1939–
• ROLF DIETER BRINKMAN 1940–1975
• KARIN KIWUS 1942–
• MICHAEL KRÜGER 1943–
• JÜRGEN THEOBALDY 1944–
• JOACHIM SARTORIUS 1946–
• UWE KOLBE 1957–
• DURS GRÜNBEIN 1962–
• LUTZ SEILER 1963–
• MARCEL BAYER 1965–
• VOLKER SIELAFF 1966–
• HAUKE HÜCKSTÄDT 1969–
• MATTHIAS GÖRITZ 1969–
• JAN WAGNER 1971–
• Acknowledgements
• Index of Poets
• About the Editor
• Copyright