With books by Arno Geiger, Katharina Bressel, Isabelle Vargo-Kol, Franziska Thune Hohenstein, Warlam Shalamu, and Raquel Haslund-Gereld.
Arno Geiger went underground for many years: in waste paper containers in Vienna. In “The Happy Secret” he talks about his precious books.
In “Other Fears” Katarina Brissel describes the strange move into a nursing home. Hear a reading tip from Austrian author Anna Kim.
American Isabelle Fargo Cole is a guest in the studio and reporting on her research in the Bering Strait for Alaska’s lead article “The Gold Coast.”
The volume of the letter and biography: We review two new books about the Russian author Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), who lived for a long time in the labor camps of Siberia.
Finally, we walk through the Karen Blixen Museum in Denmark and then read Raquel Haslund-Gerild’s new novel Adam in Heaven: The Story of Danish Painter Christian Zahrtmann (1843-1917).
Arno Geiger – The Happy Secret
Hanser Verlag Munich, 240 pages, €25
ISBN 978-3-446-27617-8
Review by Julia Schroeder
Katharina Brissel – Other concerns
Residenz Verlag, 184 pages, €22
ISBN 9783701717064
Reading tip from author Anna Kim
Isabel Fargo Cole – Gold Coast
Judith Shalansky (Editor) Natural History Series
Matthes & Seitz Verlag, 367 pages, €38
ISBN 978-3-7518-0217-8
Conversation and reading with author Isabel Fargo Cole
Varlam Shalamov:
Franziska Thun Hohenstein – Life Writing. Varlam Shalamov. Biography and poetry
Matthes & Seitz Verlag, 536 pages, €38
ISBN 978-3-95757-037-6
Varlam Shalamov – I can’t write letters. Correspondence 1952-1978
Translated from the Russian by Gabriel Leopold
Edited with annotations and an endnote by Franziska Thun Hohenstein
Matthes & Seitz Verlag, 751 pages, €48
ISBN 978-3-7518-0075-4
Double review by Gisela Arbesloh
Visit the Karen Blixen Museum in Rungstedlund, Denmark
Reporting by Eva Karnowski
(Taken from Deutschlandfunk, “Sonntagsspaziergang” program from November 27, 2022, abridged version)
Raquel Haslund-Gereld – Adam in Heaven
Translated from Danish by Andreas Donat
Albino Verlag, 330 pages, €26
ISBN 978-3-86300-341-8
Ulrich Rüdenauer review
Music:
Terem Quartet – No, Russia cannot be understood with intelligence
Label: Intuition Records
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