Rainer Moritz, born 1958, German literary critic and writer. He is director of Literaturhaus Hamburg. Rainer Moritz, geboren 1958, deutscher Literaturkritiker und Autor. Er ist Leiter des Literaturhauses Hamburg.
Rainer Moritz, born 1958, German literary critic and writer. He is director of Literaturhaus Hamburg.
Rainer Moritz, geboren 1958, deutscher Literaturkritiker und Autor. Er ist Leiter des Literaturhauses Hamburg.
Text: Rainer Moritz
Amidst discussions about how to overcome the current crisis, the question slowly coming into view focuses on what Europe will look like after the Coronavirus epidemic. What will be the future for European integration, the idea of community based on solidarity and the vision of a common culture?
Some books slip through the back door into their readers’ minds. Some books don’t need to make showy, grand gestures, or to demonstrate their authors’ skill on every page...
Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1912 in Reading; died in 1975 in Penn) was overlooked as a writer for a long while, even in Great Britain. Too much a stranger to London and its literary circles, she appeared too modest and looked after her husband and children too meekly without ever – in Virginia Woolf’s words – claiming a ‘room of her own’...
Those with abundant reading material for professional reasons know the sense of fatigue and occasional slight disappointment along ...
Novels can naturally be written about people who live on remote farms in the Markgraviate of Brandenburg or who spend their days in stately villas in even more elegant suburbs along the...
Is it possible, is it allowed? Can a convincing novel emerge when an author has barely gained perspective on current events? When she makes the characters think about Angela Merkel’s refugee policy or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian regime...
For several years, a notable trend has become evident in (West-)European literature for no-holds-barred autobiographical texts. Previously, in novels the point was often ...
Despite all the hostilities, the German Book Prize – nominating the “best novel” since 2005 – is long established as one of the most prestigious awards...
Among the feuilleton’s most thankless tasks are the fastest discovery of a new literary trend, or being the first to announce that this spring or in the autumn-time there...
It’s time to discuss the next round of prizewinners gain. Hardly has the usual flurry of excitement in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Prize award to Frank Witzel subsided when the shortlist has been published for the next round of prizewinners to be announced at the Leipzig Book Fair on 17 March. The jury of seven reputable literary critics had to choose from 401 entries from 113 publishers, and to nominate five candidates in the categories of fiction, non-fiction/essays and translation.
On Literature in 2015. It sounds so easy: you pick the most important novels, short stories and poetry editions from a year; you assess and evaluate them, and finally you say what these novels, short stories and poetry collections share in common and what they reveal about current trends.
German-speaking countries have no shortage of literature prizes and scholarships. When sales trends for non-mainstream literature are falling, not rising, such awards are an increasingly important way of providing writers with at least some financial freedom.
In literature things are stated in such a special way that – to sum it up with a simple phrase – they cannot be re-translated one to one into our everyday language.
When the Leipzig Trade Fair’s impressive Glass Hall was officially opened in the mid-1990s, it was in the stars what this investment would mean for the Leipzig Book Fair.
If you read a lot – you forget a lot. And so, with Christmas approaching, if you think about the books you can remember from the past year, which plots you haven’t immediately forgotten, those that remain become your personal favourites. Here are my Top Five for 2014:
Nicht nur die Literatur ist schön … Fußball auch.
Manchmal ermüde ich mit einem Mal. Da springe ich aus dem Bett, nehme eine erquickende Wechseldusche, trinke einen Schluck Zitronensaft pur, dann tiefschwarzen Kaffee und scheine energieladen für den jungen Tag. Bis ich – ein wenig ängstlich schon – die Feuilletonseiten deutscher Tages- und Wochenzeitungen aufschlage und jählings damit konfrontiert werde, dass schon wieder über irgendetwas debattiert, dass schon wieder eine Sau durchs Dorf getrieben wird. Sofort erschlaffen meine Glieder, falle ich in mich zusammen, und mein Haupt senkt sich über jene Blätter, die für meinen Kummer sorgen.
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