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This time The team of 30 literary critic critics and that the jury of the SWR is high score list, great job and worked through a welter of new titles. As many as seven out of ten titles available in December 2010 for the first time on the list. Not everything really new texts - so have the publishers Haffmans & Tolkemitt Samuel Pepys' diaries (1660-1669) and dug into a 9-volume slipcase the market thrown: Pepys Secretary, British Admiralty, President of the Royal Society and was deputy of the English House of Commons. In his diaries, he described government actions in the court and in the Navy Office, as well as everyday experiences, and became one of the most important chroniclers of his time. He died 1703rd While there have been over the last few years every now and then extracts from these diaries in German translation, such as "The Erotic Pepys' Eichborn at least 480 pages or a strong selection of" Diary from the London of the 17th century "by Reclam - but compared to the 4416 pages of new Haffmans output was so far little more than a baiting, an appetizer. Besides Samuel Pepys are Henning Ritter, Peter Esterhazy, Ivan Bunin, Günter Grass, Thomas Bernhard and Annette Mingels new here. So rich harvest for all literary enthusiasts:

1st place (4-5) 98 points Gisela von Wysocki: We make music Title: We make music: story of a suggestion / Gisela von Wysocki Author: Wysocki, Gisela von issue: 1 ed Publisher: Berlin: Suhrkamp Release Date: 11 October 2010 Pages / format: 257 p., 21 cm ISBN: 978-3-518-42208-3 order number (s): 42 208 EAN: 9783518422083 Binding / Price: PP: EUR 22.90 Tags: Odeon works; normal groove record, musician, father, and history from 1924 to 1947; fiction illustration Moderate reading book watch amazon.de Sample Suhrkamp Verlag The father, a pioneer of the early shellac culture collected in the twenties and thirties, the dance and vaudeville into the ODEON-Orchester Berlin Recording Studio. Later, after the war, he brings every night from the city, a new black disc from which the terror of the daughter of loud music is heard. The father appears to her as a magician, the opera singer, can squeeze pianist and an entire orchestra in the tiny size of the record. Nothing interests the daughter more than finding out what is going on with the mysterious world of his father's music to be. Therefore, she takes piano lessons, studying with his father couplets and little dances, and tries to be a child star, but fails to bizarre manner with each of these experiments. It must therefore come up with something else can. We make music, the first major prose work of the essayist and playwright Gisela von Wysocki, the scene of a rich history is éducation musicale. Between farce and drama, she tells of deception and unmasking and the fascination of a child for the world of music: a touch of mystery of the art "Alice in Wonderland" from the Mark Brandenburg. "Gisela is Wysocki's autobiographical novel is a captivating family story of the postwar period, from the ruined Berlin. .. And he is the portrait of a family with a mother who makes Telefunken Christmas advertising, and a child who is to sing and miserably when Heinerle-song fails "(Verena Auffermann)

place second (-) 60 points HENNING RITTER: notebooks Title: notebooks / Henning Ritter Author: Ritter, Henning Publisher: Berlin: Berlin-Verl. Release Date: 4 September 2010 Pages / format: 425 p., 22 cm ISBN: 978-3-8270-0958-6 EAN: 9783827009586 More difficult reading book watch amazon.de Sample at the Berlin publishers 's favorite era of the author is undoubtedly the 18th Century of Rousseau and Montesquieu, perhaps because of the confession joy with which it professes his passions. But above all he is interested in the intellectual competition between eras and traditions, the Unfinished of the past, its lessons, and the Present, as coming last, is brought to their apparent superiority, all periods have the same opportunity. And the result is a conversation between the most independent minds of the Enlightenment to today, from Montaigne to Nietzsche and Darwin, from Büchner to Canetti, disciples and many others - a cornucopia of constantly surprising harvest fruits, designs, maxims and reflections, with recurring motifs and themes, such as (under the heading of "things German") the stable characteristics of the Germans, the role of sympathy and remembrance in contemporary society or the competition of politics and culture in German history. The notes range from the laconic scarcity of the aphorism and the short essay, spontaneity and chance are her signature, and they are unplanned, listed in a booklet that was always at hand. There are, to speak with one of his beautiful gems, "Do A, which must be turned round and round" (Goethe), thoughts-in-waiting, waiting, the original author and readers turn to them to make use of them. Henning Ritter's notebooks are a very personal contribution to the discussion of the contemporary thinking as reflected in a recent past, without warning.

3rd place (-) 45 points PÉTER ESTERH AZY: A novel production production entitled A novel (two production novels): A novel / Péter Esterházy from Hungarian. of Terézia Mora person (s) Esterházy, Péter; Mora, Terézia [Translator] Publisher Berlin: Berlin-Verl. Release 2010 scale / size 530 S.: Ill., 22 cm uniform title Termelési-Regeny (kisssregeny) ISBN 978-3-8270-0407-9 \u0026lt;dt.> 978-3 - 8270-0968-5 (Vorzugsausg.) EAN 9783827004079 Harder Reading book watch amazon.de excerpt from the Berlin publishers The first novel Péter Esterházy, next to the 'Celestial Harmonies "and" Introduction to quality literature 'one of the three pillars of his work. When he appeared in 1979 in Hungary, he came like a bomb and achieved 'cult status'. A novel in two parts. Part I is the grand parody of a 'novel production', the genre in which the authors of the Communist hemisphere according to the doctrine of socialist realism the lives of the working class optimistic 'Reflect' had. Esterházy shows the daily routine in a mathematical institute, the trials and tribulations of the computer technician Imre and his comrades-General Gregory Peck, both there (and down) away by the blonde secretary Marilyn Monroe. But each production, the title promises, is swamped by the flood of paper that causes the grotesque slapstick search for a lost study. This part is filled with poems, folk songs, speeches in Parliament. is part II 'There is a record'. The chronicler Peter Eckermann (or Péter Esterházy?) Reported in notes veneration and respect, but highly enjoyable about the circumstances under which Part I of the 'master' (Goethe?, Péter Esterházy?) was written when about his private life, the deportation, the career as a footballer and as a father, the beginnings of a writer - in scenes of merciless everyday, every course at the training ground or in the pub holding on and interrupted by the comments of the 'master', his reflections on the novel. Just a note apparently part, it is in truth a 'novel production' in the sense Esterházy, a novel about the production of a novel, the nucleus of his later themes and writing and, together with the typographical Insults and the bishop purple cover (reminiscent of a youth as an altar boy), an outrageous affront to the ruling periods 'reflection theory', the collapse of Modernism in the Hungarian literature. After the appearance of the 'production of novel "1979 there was only a' before 'and' after ', and in the world literature, he had only a precursor: Nabokov's Pale Fire.

# 4 (-) 41 points SAMUEL PEPYS: Diaries 1660-1669 Translated by George Deggerich, Michael Haupt, Arnd Koesling, Hans-Christian Oeser, Martin Richter, Marcus Weigelt Title: Diaries 1660-1669, Samuel Pepys Author: Pepys, Samuel, George Deggerich, including Michael main issue: First fully translated edition total Release Date: August 2010 Publisher: Publishers & Haffmans Tolkemitt ISBN-10: 3942048183 size / price: 4416 pages. 11 x 19 cm (9 volumes in slipcase) € 169.90 Medium reading »End 1659 Pepys had bought from a stationery retailer in the Cornhill in the City of London his first diary. On 1 January 1660 he began his daily notes, and they led by 31 May 1669 continued. ended According to their own he blind to the records because he feared that because of eye trouble. For officials like him, it was quite common to use journals as a reminder to service events to be recorded. Pepys, however, was one of the first written down about the official events, personal experiences and views. What prompted him to do, is still unclear. As secretary Edward Montagu and well-informed contemporaries he was of course aware that in 1660 major political changes were impending. Possibly this was an incentive, his experiences from that time to be recorded. As the diaries of both private and official information was embarrassing, held Pepys in his lifetime it strictly under wraps. However, it must have had the desire to a distant posterity to deliver, because he had to curb it and incorporate its 3000 strong library. This had to turn his inheritance because of a testamentary disposition of Pepys in turn bequeath the University of Cambridge. Samuel Pepys, it was left to chance and therefore the time when someone would come in the Bibliotheca Pepysiana on his posthumous notes. Pepys' diary allows an unobstructed view of everyday life in London of the late 17th Century and into the psyche of a people of that time. In addition, there is an outstanding source of significant events the Restoration period, at about the return of King Charles II to the Great Plague of 1665 or the Great Fire of London the following year. The special attraction of the work is that its author - pure and free from political and personal considerations - state actions on the court and in the Admiralty as treats as everyday experiences. The coronation ceremony for the returnees from exile, Charles II, among descriptions of Pepys' love affairs and quarrels with his wife Elizabeth. Views on war and foreign policy, the author is with keen interest as well as reports of visits to the theater again and executions, reading, Gossip, moods of the people, fashions, menus, prices and much more. The remarkable authenticity, honesty and genuine nature of the work of Pepys from most other published diaries characterized derives not only from the skilful, narrative style, but also from the writing technique of the author. He used a shorthand writing, which most of his fellow man - including his wife - could not read. This allowed him to express freely and openly. He had little fear that his records could bring him trouble, if they ever fell into the wrong hands. Given some extra-marital affairs and corruption cases, was involved in the Pepys, over the years, he had good reasons for this caution. Even more than governmental investigations Pepys apparently feared the displeasure of his wife, for her to go over for sure, he encrypted the descriptions of his infidelities also using a mixture of languages \u200b\u200bfrom English, French, Latin and English words. Caught the end of 1668 Elizabeth Pepys her husband but in the act with a maid, which he regarded as the greatest disaster of his life. A few months later he gave up the diary. " Source: de.wikipedia.org / wiki / Pepys

5th place (8) 34 points Colm Toibin: Brooklyn Title: Brooklyn: a novel / Colm Tóibín From the MANUAL Ditte and Giovanni Bandini Author: Toibin, Colm, Bandini, Giovanni [Translator] Publisher: München: Hanser Release Date: 6 September 2010 Pages / format: 302 p., 22 cm Uniform Title: Brooklyn [dt] ISBN: 978-3-446-23566-3 order number (s): 505 / 23566 EAN: 9783446235663 Binding / Price : PP: EUR 21.90 Tags: Brooklyn [NY]; Irishwoman, saleswoman, integration, history, 1950; fiction illustration Easier reading book watch amazon.de Sample the Hanser Verlag The young Irish woman Eilis Lacey immigrated to America around 1950, in Brooklyn to find a new job. But it adapts only slowly to the new life that does not easily make friends. Gradually it gains confidence and noted that she has become an independent, adult. That makes her the choice between Ireland and America, between the one and the other man, not easier. The award-winning author Colm Tóibín describes impressively the classic fate of an exile, the history of a very normal woman - seen entirely from their perspective. "This book will endure: Colm Tóibín tells in his novel by Irish emigrants in America, to be doppelgangers of themselves, and bathes the city of New York in the light of everyday life." ; (Lothar Müller)

Place 6 (2) 33 points Title: Still storm / Peter Handke Author: Handke, Peter issue: 1 ed Publisher: Berlin: Suhrkamp Release Date: 20 September 2010 Pages / format: 165 p., 25 cm ISBN: 978-3-518-42131-4 order number (s): 42131 EAN: 9783518421314 Binding / Price: pb. : EUR 15.90 Moderate reading book watch amazon.de Sample on amazon.de The Jaunfeld, in southern Austria, in Carinthia, where gather around a ' I "(or is it more on the edge?) whose ancestors: the grandparents and their children, including her own mother. They appear to him as they accompany him to the dreams in a variety of sequences of scenes, in which alternate different games and forms of speech. a panorama that extends far beyond all literary genres and they are also of altered. Created by Peter Handke, an exemplary family tragedy scenes? (At least two of the brothers died in the forties.) Based on individual stations, he tells the epic of a people, the Slovenians? (Of these, the only armed resistance went against the National Socialist regime from within its original borders.) Prepare the historical drama of the eternal loser (the one on the history imagined their side and yet achieved nothing)? Or he turns, narrative-dramatic, back to their own biography, whose conditions and consequences? permeate this book by Peter Handke in prose and drama, theatrical and poetic, historical and personal, and so in the end, questionable whether the surviving brother of the mother really has the last word. "There is still storm Continuous Forward .. Still storm Yes, we have committed the injustice - the injustice of being born here, just here. "

# 7 (-) 31 points Ivan Bunin: The origin of days Title: On the Origin of the day: early stories 1890 - 1909 / Ivan Bunin from the Russ. verse of Dorothea Trottenberg ed and a Nachw. by Thomas Grob Author: Bunin, Ivan A.; Trottenberg, Dorothea [Translator], Grob, Thomas [Ed] Publisher: Zurich: Dörlemann Year: 2010 Pages / format: 285 p., 20 cm ISBN : 978-3-908777-60-1 EAN: 9783908777601 Easier reading book watch amazon.de Early narratives of the Russian Nobel laureate. The 1890-1909 published stories reflect the literary development of Bunin's almost youthful beginnings to the time when he was in Russia was already a distinguished author, who won in 1909 the prestigious Pushkin Prize and was an honorary member of the Academy. These stories show with great clarity the deep economic problems, hunger, the decline of the lesser nobility, the forced emigration of many farmers. However, the focus of an open mind on the people themselves, to the sometimes bizarre country people, the small moments of happiness and sadness.

place 8-9 (-) 30 points GUNTER GRASS: GRIMM WORDS title Grimm's words: a declaration of love / Günter Grass Author: Grass, Günter edition 1 Ed Publishers Göttingen: Steidl Release 2010 size / format 357 p., 24 cm ISBN 978-3-86930-155-6 EAN 9783869301556 Binding / price tissues: EUR 29.80 Tags Grimm, Wilhelm, Grimm, Jacob; German Dictionary ; fiction illustration Moderate reading book watch amazon.de Brief Excerpt the Steidl Verlag The Brothers Grimm in 1838 received an honorable mission: A dictionary of the German language to create them. Full of zeal they make to work. But joke, face, breathing hard, they gather strength words and quotations, in a few years, it should be created. Barefoot, begging letter, beer murderer exploring custom and usage, they are doing things thoroughly. Capers, comedy, creature have at the end of her life Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm met only a few letters. Günter Grass tells the story of the Brothers Grimm in a unique way as a love letter to the German language and the words of which it is joined. He writes about the Life stages of the fairy-tale brothers, their boundless task and his contemporaries to support them: family and publishers, friends, admirers and detractors. playful virtuosity feels wrath words according to the riches of the German language and roamed the German history since the Prince rule and the first steps of democracy. Of the past with their political struggles and everyday concerns suggests Grass some bridge in his own time. He calls it his 'likely final book'. After the 'Danzig Trilogy', the great novels of the early years, has Günter Grass now his auto-biographical Trilogy completed, which includes his early biography 'Peeling the Onion', the nachgetragene family history 'The Box' and now the double portrait of the Brothers Grimm and Grass. "(Iris Radisch) The novel 'Grimm's words' is as audiobook available: audio CD, PAPER Speaker: Günter Grass first edition Language: German ISBN: 978-3-86930-193-8 Release Date: August 2010 Steidl

place 8-9 (-) 30 points ANNETTE Mingel: clay pigeons Title: Clay pigeon: a novel / Annette Mingels author: Mingels, Annette issue: 1 Ed Publisher: Köln: DuMont Release Date: 5 October 2010 Pages / format: 200 p. ISBN: 978-3-8321-8534-3 EAN: 9783832185343 Moderate reading book watch amazon.de An island in the North Sea. Here Anne and David live with two children. One night is her four-year-old daughter died. Yola was traveling on a bicycle when she was hit. From the offender, there is no trace. The marriage of the parents threatened to break the sorrow, the mother flees in a relationship with her psychologist. At the same time a meeting takes place on the island. There, Esther and Frank learn to know each other, both are married. From initial skepticism evolved an affair. When it was time to go home, they stay: torn between guilt and fascination for her new passion. On their last evening on the island there is a dispute. > Clay pigeons \u0026lt;explores spoke powerfully and accurately the depth of human relations in pain and passion.

# 10 (-) 22 points THOMAS BERNHARD: Goethe schtirbt Title: Goethe schtirbt: stories / Thomas Bernhard Author: Bernhard, Thomas issue: 1 ed Publisher: Berlin: Suhrkamp Year: 2010 size / Format: 97 p., 21 cm ISBN: 978-3-518-42170-3 order number (s): 42 170 EAN: 9783518421703 Binding / Price : PP: EUR 14.90 Moderate reading book watch amazon.de Sample Suhrkamp Verlag at the meeting between Thomas and Bernhard Siegfried Unseld in Vienna on 17 January 1985 there is, as written, the publisher, "a" dazzling atmosphere. The author is convinced, "Old . Complete Master "in a few weeks to - the last of Thomas Bernhard completed novel, published in fact the end of that year from the talks has Unseld down a request of Bernard," would then him but very much of a band> Goethe schtirbt \u0026lt;It would contain the lyrics. > Goethe schtirbt. \u0026lt;-> bye. \u0026lt;-> Montaigne \u0026lt;-.. And two pieces that still have no title, " The Living by Thomas Bernhard was the publication of the early eighties, written, and not in newspapers printed stories more existence: too much was the author with his first novel retained Opus concerned "extinction" and the play "Heroes' Square" and the fact sparked scandal. "Schtirbt Goethe" In these stories the first time, the desire of its author are appropriately joined in one volume: it shows the ironic who were actually masters of tragic moments and comical situations, which takes up at the height of his art motifs and structures in his oeuvre: from expertise in the solitude Amras, 1964 published by the love-hate relationship toward Austria in the late work.

Personal recommendation in December by Eberhard Falcke (Munich): GWENDOLYN Macewen: The poems TELawrence Title: TE Lawrence's poems / Gwendolyn MacEwen from the English by Christine Koschel bilingual German / English. Translated by Christine Koschel author: MacEwen, Gwendolyn, Koschel, Christine [Translator] issue: 1 Ed Publisher: Hörby / Sweden: Ed. Rugerup Release Date: 9 March 2010 Pages / format: 157 p., 21 cm Uniform Title: The EE Lawrence poems \u0026lt;dt.> ISBN: 978-91-89034-26-6 Binding / Price: pb. book watch amazon.de Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987) was a of the most gifted and unusual poets in Canada. As a person, delicate, exotic and vulnerable, she was writing to other roles emerge that stood in stark contrast, in the series "The TE Lawrence Poems" even in those of the writer, as a key figure in the Arab struggle for freedom under the name of Lawrence of Arabia was famous for. MacEwen had worked intensively with the Jewish and Arab culture, learned Hebrew and Arabic, and the region as a woman traveling alone, which begat in 1962 by great courage. She lived and worked in Toronto and wrote poetry, novels and essays out. In 1969 she was just 28 years the most important poetry prize in Canada, the Governor General Award for Poetry, for the book "The Shadow-Maker," 1987, a second time for "After Worlds". "These poems are self and world exploration at the same time, a poetic role-play between man and woman, poet and warrior, alternating between tenderness and hardness and in all this adventure is a poetic meditation on life." (Eberhard Falcke)

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