#German literature

[daweyt]

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

[feral-ballad]

Rose Ausländer, tr. Eavan Boland, from After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets; "My Nightingale"

[Text ID: "Her honey-brown eyes / and her loveliness"]

[megairea]

I was in the land of the moon and I’ve come back, and here you are and you are life.

Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph (tr. by Walter Sorell & Denver Lindley), 1945

[luthienne]

Paul Celan, Selections

[Text ID: Memory, / set up your flag at half-mast. / At half-mast / today and forever.]

[itsagrummel]

just a normal day on german twitter with this tweet by El Hotzo

Harry Potter:

arrogant celeb

goes to a posh school in a castle in England

did not learn something proper

needed 7 books to kill the villain

Krabat:

normal dude

works at a mill in Lusatia

based apprenticeship as a miller

1 book, quick work with the villain

[s-u-w-i]

Finally, after years of thinking about it I had a moment (because I was sick and not quite up to doing any actual work) to draw something for Otfried Preußler's Krabat 🦴 From left to right - Tonda, Jura, Hanzo, Lyško, Stašek, Petr, Merten, Michal, Kubo, Andruš, and Kito (I only know the Czech names, sorry!)

[owoatmilk]

[y2kaee]

“He’s terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived ”

The Metamorphosis_ Franz Kafka

[amicus-noctis]

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.” ― Herman Hesse, Demian

Painting: "Self Portait" by Claude Buck

[illustration-alcove]

Nadezhda Illarionova's illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, variously adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.

[marydarkblacknoir]

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[quantum-chromo-dynamics]

Please read Friedrich Dürrenmatts works

Please please do

I swear the Visit is actually funny and wonderful if you aren't forced to read it by the school curriculum

Trust me read it

Please please please please

And while you are busy with The Visit why don't you continue reading the Physicist

:') ?

It's my favourite author he's funny I promise

While you're at it read it in German since I'm not sure how the English translation is

Trust me it's great please do

<333333

[papillon-de-mai]

"I love him, his shoulders, his angular, stooping figure – and at the same time I see behind him woods and stars, and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace [...]."

— Erich Maria Remarque, from "All Quiet on the Western Front" (translated by A. W. Wheen)

[megairea]

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph (tr. by Walter Sorell & Denver Lindley), 1945

[gabrielisdead]

is this Gregor from Metamorphosis accepting his fate and continue his life as a huge bug, cooking spagetti and having a dinner with his little insect family

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“Civilization, far from setting us free, in fact creates some new need with every new power it develops in us. The fetters of the physical tighten ever more alarmingly, so that fear of losing what we have stifles even the most burning impulse towards improvement, and the maxim of passive obedience passes for the supreme wisdom of life.” - Friedrich Schiller