Hans Kramladen

The book is a collection of satirical vignettes and thoughts about life in the Soviet Union, gathered into chapters with loose connections b...

Dem jungen Mann das Herze bricht, Die holde Jungfer liebt ihn nicht. Ein Ritter stirbt zur gleichen Stund, Die Liebe schlug ihm rote W...

Your hair is like a poem, It flows from your crest, It curls in a cadence. It falls from your shoulders, Its tiny feet dangling, D...

Philemon paws at the glass door,  Answering what call?  No cat no dog no bird to catch,  Going against his own self?  Up against the pane,  ...

Reading Shakespeare - Part I: The Comedies Over the last couple of months, I’ve read the collected works of William Shakespeare. I don’t t...

S. Fischer, 2019, 617 S. Der Roman beschreibt die bewegte Lebensgeschichte von Elena Silber, im vorrevolutionären Russland geboren un...

As I've recently been reading a lot of Babel, I just had to think that's how the Red Cavalry would have approached maths. В последн...

I had put off reading "A Clockwork Orange" for a long time. It's a book that has become part of common cultural knowledge, and...

When I was a boy, "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Belles on their Toes" (In German: "Im Dutzend billiger" und ...

Beim Blättern in unserer Anthologie deutscher Gedichte stoße ich vorgestern auf diesen Sinnspruch von Schiller ( "Erwartung und Erfüllu...

Вчера вечером, листая афоризмы Лихтенберга, я увидел рядом стоящего "Героя нашего времени" на немецком, и я просто не мог вспомина...

Ein weiteres Weihnachtsgeschenk war Daniel Kehlmanns "Die Vermessung der Welt". Es gibt dazu genug im Internet (z. B. diese Bespre...

I put the book on my Christmas wish list, and Santa acted accordingly. So now I know I was wrong as well - the real reason why Michael isn...

I normally don't talk about books or films I haven't read. But I came across this review of the film version of "The Reader...

Sometimes, doing term papers is good for something - back during my Slavistic studies, I had to do one on a collection of short stories by V...