This poem from his best-known collection, written shortly before his death in 1975, depicts “a / freshly washed pair of / black tights” hanging on a wire “between two / bare trees.” The poem exemplifies many of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s… Read More ›
postwar German literature
Analysis of Johannes Bobrowski’s Experience
One week before its first publication in Germany’s leading weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, in November 1962, Johannes Bobrowski recited Erfahrung at a literary meeting of the legendary Gruppe 47, an informal alliance of German postwar authors that included the novelists… Read More ›
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