Uwe Johnson

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Till författaren Max Frischs sjuttioårsdag skrev Uwe Johnson denna prosatext som en gåva. Den skildrar motsägelsen mellan identitet och en människas yttre bild. Johnsons livsskildring av en »förolyckad« dokumenterar denna oförenlighet på ett särskilt sätt. Det den »förolyckade« i god tro sammanställt som premisser och essensen för sin existens, det han trodde var en lyckad livssituation, avslöjas oväntat som ständiga vilseledningar. Varje detalj i hans förflutna måste därför omtolkas. Resultatet är en skoningslös korrigering. Uppgiften för denna tystlåtna, sparsamma text är sålunda både att ge en biografi och att rätta densamma. Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) föddes i Cammin (idag Polen) och dog i Sheen­ess on Sea i England. Han räknas till en av 1900-talets största tyska författare. Han var medlem i Gruppe 47 och hans huvudverk Jahrestage utkom mellan åren 1970 och 1984. En förolyckads anteckningar skulle först ingå i Jahrestage, men blev ett eget verk. Det vittnar inte bara om den litterära kraften i Jahrestage utan också Johnsons exakta prosa. Susanne Widén har översatt.

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of East German Communism, has been living with her ten-year-old daughter, Marie, in New York City for six years. Mother and daughter find themselves caught up in the countless stories of the world around them: stories of work and school and their neighborhood, with its shifting and varied cast of characters, as well as the stories that Gesine reads in The New York Times every day--about Che Guevara, racial violence, the war in Vietnam, and the US elections to come. Now, with Marie growing up, Gesine has decided to tell her daughter the story of her own childhood in a small north German town in the 1930s and 1940s. Amidst memories of Germany's criminal and disastrous past and the daily barrage of news from a world in disarray, Gesine, conscientious, self-scrutinizing, with a sharp sense of humor, struggles to describe what she has learned over the years and what she hopes to pass on to Marie. Marie, articulate, quizzical, with a perspective that is very much her own, has plenty of questions too. Uwe Johnson's intimate portrait of a mother and daughter is also a panorama of past and present history and the world at large. Comparable in richness of invention and depth of feeling to Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Anniversaries is one of the world's great novels.

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Beginning in August 1967 and ending in August 1968, Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries unfolds the story of a year in the life of Gesine Cresspahl, a German migr living in New York, and her ten-year-old daughter, Marie, a year during which Gesine tells Marie her own story of growing up under the Nazis and during and after World War II in a small north German town near the Baltic Sea. Comparable in richness of invention and depth of feeling to Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Anniversaries is one of the world's great novels. Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine's long-dashed hopes that Socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her boss at the bank has his own ideas about Czechoslovakia, and Gesine faces the prospect of having to move there for work. Continuing the story of her past from Anniversaries, Volume 1, Gesine describes the Soviet occupation of her hometown, Jerichow, where her father was installed as mayor and ended up in a brutal prison camp. Gesine herself charts a rebellious course through school, ever more bitterly conscious of the moral ugliness of life behind the Iron Curtain. As the year of the novel comes to its end, past and present converge and the novel circles back to its beginnings: Gesine tells Marie about her father, Jakob, dead before she was born, about leaving East Germany, and, as history threatens to take them away from New York, about the beginning of their life together in the city that they have both come to love.

Genießerisch mit dem Gaumen reisen: Landschaften, Kultur und Kulinarisches haben es dem Autor Werner Teufl angetan. Seine Heimat Deutschland und deren schmackhafte Schätze aus Küche und Keller liegen ihm dabei natürlich besonders am Herzen und auf der Zunge. Seine Tour durch deutsche Lande stellt bekannte und unbekannte Spezialitäten ebenso vor wie Kochkünstler, Schlemmerrouten und -plätze sowie sinnenfreudige Feste.