#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"]

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Siddhartha

Text ID: what remains from all that seems holy to us? What remains?

[queer-ragnelle]

The Crown (Diu Crône) by Heinrich von dem Türlin translated by J. W. Thomas

Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal translated by Michael Resler

Erec by Hartmann von Aue translated by Cyril Edwards

Iwein Knight with the Lion by Hartmann von Aue translated by Cyril Edwards

Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven translated by Thomas Kerth

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach translated by Jessie Weston

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach translated by Edwin Zeydel

Tristan and Iseult Vol. I by Gottfriend von Straßberg translated by Jessie Weston

Tristan and Iseult Vol. II by Gottfriend von Straßberg translated by Jessie Weston

Wigalois Knight of Fortune’s Wheel by Wirnt von Grafenberg translated by J. W. Thomas

Wigalois Knight of Fortune’s Wheel by Wirnt von Grafenberg (in German)

Wigamur translated by Joseph M. Sullivan

[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.]

[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

[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

[owoatmilk]

[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!)

[y2kaee]

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

The Metamorphosis_ Franz Kafka

[illustration-alcove]

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

[argyleheir]

Hermann Hess's Demian

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Siddhartha

Text ID: a restlessness of the soul,

[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