Archive for December 2011

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Die Welt has issued a new DVD boxed set of Egon Monk’s 1983 ZDF/BBC/ORF made-for-TV film version of Die Geschwister Oppermann and makes a cogent argument that it’s one of the seven films indispensable to an understanding of the 20th century. As BBC film critic at the time, Barry Norman, would have said: “And why not?”

The new year brings another interesting lot up for auction at Hauff und Auvermann:  a set of various LF works each with his handwritten dedication to Hilde Waldo.

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The auction will be held on January 14th. Catalog 66, items 477-490.

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Novelist Tanja Kinkel concurs that, having taken LF as a doctoral dissertation subject, it is nonetheless still possible to keep repeatedly returning to his novels for pleasure… Deutschlandfunk, Samstag, 3. Dez 2011

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