AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES/AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD (15 ) 1972 GERMANY HERZOG, WERNER DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Intense performance by Klaus Kinski as Aguirre a Spanish conquistador looking for El Dorado.
FITZCARRALDO (15) 1982 GERMANY WERNER HERZOG £17.99
Eccentric rubber baron attempts to realize his dream of building a opera house deep in the Peruvian jungle.
WOYZECK (15) 1978 GERMANY WERNER HERZOG £19.99
Werner Herzog’s film of the Buchner Play .
FILM
FALSCHE BEWEGUNG/WRONG MOVE (15) 1975 GERMANY WENDERS, WIM £15.99
Road movie which forms the second part of Wender’s trilogy, coming between ‘Alice in the Cities’ and ‘Kings of the Road’.
DIE VERMESSUNG DER WELT (12) 2012 GERMANY BUCK, DETLEV £19.99
Based on the novel by Daniel Kehlmann, the film re-imagines the lives of German scientists Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt.
LITERATURE
KRACHT, CHRISTIAN: FASERLAND
Part of the 1990s new wave of German pop literature, a young man is on an odyssey across Germany in a search for identity in the modern age.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Fischer Taschenbücher ISBN: 9783596185320 £12.50
FILM
EFFI BRIEST (U) 1974 GERMANY FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER BLU RAY ONLY £15.99
Film adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel set in the late 19th century.
LORE (15) 2012 SHORTLAND, CATE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
When her father, an officer in the SS, and her Nazi-supporting mother are taken into custody by allied troops at the end of the war, Lore and her siblings must travel across Germany to their grandmother's house in Hamburg. On their travels, the group encounter a number of fearful and suspicious people, but it is only when they meet a kind-hearted young Jewish man, Thomas , that Lore begins to reassess the feelings of hatred so deeply instilled in her by her parents.
LITERATURE
ERPENBECK, JENNY: GESCHICHTE VOM ALTEN KIND
Young girl is found on a street at night with an empty bucket in her hand. She has no recollection of the past and the authorities send her to a childrens home
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Das besondere Taschenbuch ISBN: 9783442726868 £11.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE OLD CHILD AND OTHER STORIES
New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811216081 £12.99
FILM
JENSEITS DER STILLE/BEYOND SILENCE (15) 1996 GERMANY LINK, CAROLINE £19.99
German drama starring Sylvie Testud as Lara, the spirited daughter of two deaf-mute parents. Since early childhood, Lara has acted as a translator and mediator between her parents and the outside world. Now a young woman of 18, Lara is given a clarinet by her revered aunt, and learns to play with rapid success.
NICHTS BEREUEN (15) 2001 GERMANY QUABECK, BENJAMIN £19.99
A film about growing up and staring Daniel Brühl as about 19-year-old Daniel who is in
love with Luca.
LITERATURE
LEBERT, BENJAMIN: CRAZY
A funny and poignant autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Goldmann ISBN: 9783442541591 £10.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - CRAZY : A NOVEL
Vintage ISBN: 9780375708312 £17.99
FILM
RUSSENDISKO (12) 2012 GERMANY ZIEGENBALG, OLIVER IN GERMAN WITHOUT ENGLISH SUBTITLES £15.99
A series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the Russian emigres in the multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin.
BERLIN IS IN GERMANY (12) 2001 GERMANY STÖHR, HANNES £19.99
After his release from prison, Martin who was an East German citizen needs to come to terms with German re-unification.
LITERATURE
HENSEL, JANA: ZONENKINDER
Jana Hensel childhood ended with the fall of the Wall . Her everyday activities of life in East Germany disappeared overnight and she had to adjust to a completely new life.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Rowohlt TB. ISBN: 9783499235320 - £11.75
FILM
NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA/NOWHERE IN AFRICA (15) 2002 GERMANY LINK, CAROLINE £25.99 – ONLY AVAILABLE IN A GERMAN EDITION WITHOUT ENGLISH SUBTITLES
1938 a German Jewish family moves to Kenya to start a new life.
ROSIE/ A MAN, HIS LOVER, AND HIS MOTHER (15) 2013 SWITZERLAND GISLER, MARCEL IN GERMAN £15.99
Gay writer Lorenz returns to home town in Switzerland to deal with his writer’s block. However back home he has to deal with his elderly fun loving mother in this heart-warming film.
LITERATURE
WOLF, CHRISTA: NACHDENKEN ÜBER CHRISTA T.
The book chronicles two childhood friends from the second World War into the 1960s in East Germany.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp Taschenbücher ISBN: 9783518459133 - £10.95
FILM
BARBARA (12A) 2012 GERMANY PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN £17.99
Set in pre-Berlin Wall East Germany in 1980. Nina Hoss stars as Barbara, a young doctor starting a new job at a small hospital in the provinces. It transpires she has been transferred there by the government as punishment for applying for an exit visa from the GDR.
DEUTSCHLAND 83 (15) 2015 GERMANY £24.99
German TV drama set in 1983 during the height of the Cold War, when a young East Germanis reluctantly recruited as a spy and embedded into the West Germany army.
JENSEITS DER MAUER (12) 2009 GERMANY FROMM, FRIEDEMANN IN GERMAN ONLY WITHOUT ENGLISH SUBTITLES
1974, a family try to escape to the West from East German, but are caught. As a punishment the parents are presented with a terrible decision: they will be permitted to leave for West Germany with their seven-year-old son, but their two-year-old daughter Miriam must remain in East Germany and will be given up for adoption.
HANDKE, PETER: WUNSCHLOSES UNGLÜCK
In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the suicide of his mother, Handke sets out to piece together the facts of her life,
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp Taschenbücher ISBN: 9783518397879 - £8.95
DANIEL KEHLMANN, RUHM (2020 ONLY)
The main theme of the novel is switching identity amidst the effects of modern changing technology and the confusing game of deception played between reality and fiction.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Rowohlt TB. ISBN: 9783498035433 - £16.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FAME : A NOVEL IN NINE EPISODES
Quercus Publishing ISBN: 9781849163767 - £12.99
KLÜGER, RUTH: WEITER LEBEN (2021 ONLY)
Ruth Kluger's story of her years in several concentration camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Reclam ISBN: 9783150160459 - £6.80
SCHLINK, BERNHARD: DAS WOCHENENDE
Meet the Baader-Meinhof Group, 25 years on... Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Diogenes, ISBN: 9783257239652 - £10.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE WEEKEND
Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9780753828489 - £9.99
BRECHT, BERTOLT: DER KAUKASISCHE KREIDEKREIS
Brecht set an ancient Chinese story in Soviet Georgia, where two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, justice is done and the peasant woman keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp, ISBN: 9783518188422 - £8.40
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE.
Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9780413544506 - £9.95
HAUPTMANN, GERHARD: BAHNWÄRTER THIEL
Lineman Thiel has due his job on the railway for many years. But several tragic events lead him to commit a terrible crime.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Reclam ISBN: 9783150066171 - £2.45
KAFKA, FRANZ: IN DER STRAFKOLONIE (2020 ONLY)
Set in a prison with a terrible torture and execution device.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek ISBN: 9783518188781 - £8.60
Reclam ISBN: 9783150194010 - £6.00
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES
Alma Books Ltd ISBN: 9781847493521 - £4.99
KLEIST, HEINRICH VON: DIE MARQUISE VON O.
Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann ISBN: 9783140224512 - £7.20
Reclam ISBN: 9783140224512 - £3.00
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Pushkin Press ISBN: 9781782275299 - £11.99
MANN, THOMAS: MARIO UND DER ZAUBERER (2021 ONLY)
A young family on holiday in Italy encounters a creepy entertainer: Cipolla, a hypnotist with a fascist-like will to control his audience
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Fischer Taschenbücher ISBN: 9783596293209 - £7.35
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN : & OTHER STORIES
Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9780749386627 - £10.99
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH: DIE RÄUBER
Play in which two brothers, Franz and Karl, fight over their inheritance. Franz appears cold and calculating, but as the play unfolds, both Franz's motives and Karl's innocence and heroism are revealed to be complex
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Reclam ISBN: 9783150000151 - £4.60
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE ROBBERS AND WALLENSTEIN
Penguin ISBN: 9780140443684 - £14.99
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