#Michael Hofmann

[nedison]

Everyone's smoking, clouds of smoke from pipes and cigarettes and cigars fog the whole huge hall. When it gets too smoky for the smoke, it looks for a way out which, thanks to its lightness, it can, through chinks and holes and ventilator shafts, all of which are under instruction to see it out. Once outside, though, there's only black night and freezing cold. Then the smoke regrets its impulsiveness, and opposes its nature, but the ventilators turn only one way, and there's nothing to be done about it. Too late. It's subject to physical laws. The smoke's not sure what it thinks about that, it tries to touch its brow and there's nothing there, it wants to think and it can't. The wind, the cold, the night, have it in their grip, and it is never seen again.

- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (trans. Michael Hofmann)

[pinehutch]

It's spooky weather in spooky season, it's time for "Threat" by Gottfried Benn

[intellectures]

Leuchtende Prosa: Jenny Erpenbeck gewinnt International Booker Prize

Erstmals in der Geschichte des International Booker Prize gewinnt mit Jenny Erpenbeck eine deutschsprachige Autorin den renommierten Booker Prize für internationale Literatur.

Erstmals in der Geschichte des International Booker Prize gewinnt eine deutschsprachige Autorin den renommierten Booker Prize für internationale Literatur. Die Jury unter dem Vorsitz der kanadischen Schriftstellerin Eleanor Wachtel zeichnet die englische Übersetzung von Erpenbecks letztem Roman »Kairos« aus. Die Hälfte des mit 50.000 Euro dotierten Preises geht an den Übersetzer Michael…

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #379

An end of week recap “If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat…

[hannahstanwald]

through the eyes of the father and the son

[ifreakingloveroyals]

8 May 2019 | Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall with Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer and his wife Annett Hofmann, Leipzig Mayor Burkhard Jung and his wife Ayleena wave to people on top of the 'Rathaus' in Leipzig, Germany. Their Royal Highnesses are paying an official visit to Germany at the request of the British government. The four-day-trip from May 7-10 will include visits to Berlin, Leipzig and Munich. (c) Filip Singer - Pool/Getty Images

[wausaupilot]

St. Michael Royals win dartball league championship

The St. Michael Royals have won the dartball league championship for the second time in as many years, the team announced this week.  The Royals had already won the A division in the Wausau Interchurch Dartball League before heading into the League Championship Playoffs on April 8. The playoffs were held at the leagues annual banquet.  The Royals narrowly bested the C Division Champs, the…

[fabiansteinhauer]

[derangedrhythms]

Sometimes she sees herself in the ground, and at the same time she sees herself digging up the corpse.

Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos, tr. Michael Hofmann

[heavenlyyshecomes]

books that will leave my face stuck in a pained expression and my heart bruised? books containing stories like a greek tragedy with or without the actual greek tragedy?

tin man, sarah winman

kairos, jenny erpenbeck tr. michael hofmann

the age of innocence, edith wharton

the radiant emperor duology, shelley parker-chan

our wives under the sea, julia armfield

minor detail, adania shibli

the silence of scheherezade, defne suman

she weeps each time you're born, quan barry

[inmymagnetoera]

who would you fancast for teenage Erik and Charles?? Xx

This is really a difficult question. I had never thought about this since I always imagined young Erik and Charles as young James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, but if I had to decide He (Louis Hofmann) would be Erik and I'm sorry about Charles but I can't imagine anyone else otherwise young James.

[intellectures]

Booker Prize für Space Opera von Samantha Harvey

Die Britin Samantha Harvey ist für ihren Roman »Orbital« mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichnet worden. Der Roman, der von sechs Raumfahrer:innen erzählt, erscheint in dieser Woche in der Übersetzung von Julia Wolf unter dem Titel »Umlaufbahnen« bei dtv.

Die Britin Samantha Harvey ist für ihren Roman »Orbital« mit dem wichtigsten Literaturpreis der englischsprachigen Welt ausgezeichnet worden. Damit hat erstmals seit 2019 wieder eine Frau den renommierten Booker Prize gewonnen. Der Roman, der von sechs Raumfahrer:innen erzählt, erscheint in dieser Woche in der Übersetzung von Julia Wolf unter dem Titel »Umlaufbahnen« auch in…

[hannahstanwald]

like sister, like brother

[jamesheathridge]

the passenger (2023) / fady joudah / jeremy radin / dawn lundy martin / michael wasson / richie hofmann / noah ross / spencer reece / michael wasson / samantha fain / nisha patel / jeremy radin / noah ross / anthony oliveria / jeremy radin / anthony oliveria / catherynne m valente (source)

[glassprism]

MC and Franc D’Ambrosio both started off playing the phantom at the start of their runs, but what other old school actors also started as the phantom?

Well, assuming a random cut-off date of the year 2000 for "old school Phantoms", I'd say... quite a lot of actors? Remember, when the show first started, there's no pool of former Raouls (or less commonly, former Andres or Piangis) to draw upon for Phantom actors. A lot of principal actors for Phantom in the early days started off playing the Phantom.

So a small listing of them, across multiple productions, might include: Michael Crawford, Dave Willetts, Martin Smith, Peter Polycarpou, Peter Karrie, Mark McKerracher, Mark Jacoby, Marcus Lovett, Robert Guillaume, Rick Hilsabeck, Ron Bohmer, Masachika Ichimura, Alexander Goebel, Colm Wilkinson, Jeff Hyslop, Paul Stanley, Anthony Warlow, Rob Guest, Mikael Samuelson, Peter Hofmann, Tim Tobin, Henk Poort, Florian Schneider, Juan Navarro, Saulo Vasconcelos. Among others, I'm sure.

[miladythewinter]

The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize is as follows: 

Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott 

Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn 

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann 

The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson 

White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster 

Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae 

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson 

The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk 

What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey   

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko 

The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky  

Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz

Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches