Tomorrow and Yesterday
Tomorrow and Yesterday

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780810112063

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With the publication of Tomorrow and Yesterday, Heinrich Boll was truly regarded as the spokesman of modern Germany. Boll's novel is the story of a group of families living in a house in Germany. The members of each generation - those who lived through the war, and those conceived and born during its terror - must assess their pasts and their collective futures. This moving story is the crowning achievement of Boll's extraordinary career.

Irish Journal
Irish Journal

Author: Heinrich Boll

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2011-05-31

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1935554832

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A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.

Billiards at Half-past Nine
Billiards at Half-past Nine

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Three-generation story of a family of German architects who, in rebuilding their destroyed abbey, personify the alternate destruction and rebuilding of their country.

The Clown
The Clown

Author: Heinrich Boll

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1935554859

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Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards. Heinrich Böll’s gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealism—how to find something to believe in—gives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one.

Heinrich Böll and Ireland
Heinrich Böll and Ireland

Author: Gisela Holfter

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1443832669

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Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) which was first published in 1957, has been read by millions of German readers and has had an unsurpassed impact on the German image of Ireland. But there is much more to Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland than the Irisches Tagebuch. In this new book, Böll scholar Gisela Holfter carefully charts Heinrich Böll’s personal and literary connections with Ireland and Irish literature from his reading Irish fairytales in early childhood, to establishing a second home on Achill Island and his and his wife Annemarie’s translations of numerous books by Irish authors such as Brendan Behan, J. M. Synge, G. B. Shaw, Flann O’Brien and Tomás O’Crohan. This book also examines the response in Ireland to Böll’s works, notably the controversy that ensued following the broadcast of his film Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire) in the 1960s. Heinrich Böll and Ireland offers new insights for students, academics and the general reader alike.

From Page to Screen / Vom Buch zum Film
From Page to Screen / Vom Buch zum Film

Author: Manuel Almagro-Jiménez

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2020-10-05

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 3823302337

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For a long time now, women have struggled for the vindication of their rights and for their visibility. This struggle may seem a story of success, maybe not complete or equal for all women, but at least one which slowly but surely carries with it the promise of equality for all women. However, a closer look reveals that in various fields of culture the representation of women frequently undergoes a manipulation which makes the image of women lose the intention initially attempted. This is often the case with adaptations of literary texts to the screen, when the initial literary message is changed because of, for example, marketing demands or some ideological stance. Rarely do we find the opposite case where the indifferent or emasculated original female characters are turned into guardians and/or apologists of feminine power. The present volume focuses precisely on the way in which the image of women is modified in films and TV series, when compared with the original literary texts.

Children are Civilians Too
Children are Civilians Too

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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"These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly visiting bars and brothels; stories of children rendered with a simplicity that belies their emotional impact; and stark vignettes of people struggling to re-make their lives against the ruined landscape of war-devastated towns and villages. Representing Boll's youthful beginnings, this collection introduces the themes that inform his life-long literary accomplishments and the wit, intelligence, and lyricism that made Boll one of contemporary Europe's most acclaimed writers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Author: Julian Preece

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1839024399

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Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes Katharina Blum new and radical, in particular in respect of women's cinema and its portrayal of the ordeal of its female lead in a world run by men. Drawing on archival material including drafts of the screenplay, brochures and props, reviews and interviews, Preece traces the conception of the film and its development from Heinrich Böll's original novel. Preece analyses how the film continues to resonate with our contemporary moment and has influenced film-makers from the German-Turkish director Fatih Akin to the British screeenwriter Peter Morgan.

Encyclopedia of German Literature
Encyclopedia of German Literature

Author: Matthias Konzett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 3105

ISBN-13: 1135941297

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Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.