Great German Short Stories of the Twentieth Century A Dual-Language Book

by Wolf, Ph.D., M. Charlotte

• ISBN13: 9780486476322
• ISBN10: 0486476324
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-19
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Ideal for students, this affordable anthology features expert new translations of 13 works previously unavailable in English. The translations appear alongside the original German text of such stories as "Beauty and the Beast" by Morgner, Liebert's "Flight of the Pelicans," and tales by other important 20th-century authors, including Aurig, Buchwald, Altenbert, and Graf.

Author Biography

M. Charlotte Wolf, Ph.D., has been a freelance translator and editor since 1985 and a U.S.–based full-time German teacher, editor, and writer since 1998. Her experience includes multicultural training for students of all ages and corporate training in the United States and Germany. She is also the author of Dover's forthcoming Say It in German and 1001 Most Useful German Phrases.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction v

Acknowledgments xiii

Kurd Laßwitz 1

Die Fernschule / The Distance Learning School 4/5

Carl Grunert 27

Das Ei des Urvogels / The Archaeopteryx Egg 30/31

Alfred Henschke (aka Klabund) 59

Der Bär / The Bear 62/63

Georg Britting 72

Brudermord im Altwasser / Fratricide in the

Backwater 74/75

Elisabeth Langgässer 80

Saisonbeginn / Beginning of the Season 84/85

Luise Rinser 90

Die rote Katze / The Red Cat 94/95

Peter Bichsel 109

Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch / A Table Is a Table 112/113

Irmtraud Morgner 122

Der Schöne und das Tier / Beauty and the Beast 126/127

Iris Klockmann 155

Der Bote / The Messenger 158/159

Henry Bienek 165

Der Empfang / The Reception 168/169

Gabriele Wohmann 181

Glück und Unglück / Good Luck and Bad Luck 184/185

Michael Inneberger 201

Urlaub für ewig / Eternal Vacation 204/205

Klempner Huber / Plumber Huber 222/223