dear Kartoffels of /lit/,
I never ever get to talk about my favorite author, because he is not at all (or barely) even translated.
any of the Germans here familiar with Max Goldt? I've read all of his works, I've been to his readings twice and he has remained my favorite author for almost a decade now.
ask me anything about Max Goldt.
in here I will be posting a few of his cartoons & collabs incase no one will respond (which is gonna happen, isn't it?)
literally who
>>8136634
sadly a lot of fantastic German writers, like Goldt, Arno Schmidt, or Herbert Achternbusch are rarely to ever discussed on this forum. I don't blame anyone, they're not very well-known. maybe Schmidt is.
>>8136619
What makes him so great?
>>8136649
in short: he's funny as hell. the way he observes cultural phenomena, the way he uses and misuses language, his frame of references, his characters are fantasti and unique, often wildly thrown together from different spheres..
his prose is beautiful, he is verbose yet extremely easy to read. his language works on many different levels. when I first read him I didn't understand half of what he was saying, yet I was still captured.
sorry if this comes off as pretentious, I write highly pretentious reviews of my favorite albums in my free time.
>>8136659
I would love to, though I do not see the point of your arbitrary restriction. did you include it because you are already familiar with most of the German works circulating on this board?
in general I must say /lit/ has great taste when it comes to German literature. all the classics are worth reading. though there are some German writers which Germans consider essential that are barely ever mentioned here. A few of them are:
Georg Büchner: Woyzeck
Arthur Schnitzler: Traumnovelle
Gerhard Hauptmann: Bahnwärter Thiel
those are all very essential and often referenced. though to come back to my earlier point: I do not see anything wrong with the German literature that is popular on /lit/. I think everyone should have read Faust, Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan, Siddharta, Der Zauberberg, Die Verwandlung, Maria Stuart, Homo Faber and many others often mentioned here.
The ones I recommended earlier I specifically recommended because they give you an understanding of how the German language changed, yet they are still easy to read, language wise. Atleast I would think so.
A lot of that is high school literature, which in my personal opinion does not take away from it at all.
If you want to go deeper you need a very firm understanding of the German language. I would not recommend reading someone like Arno Schmidt or Heidegger, Kant or Hegel without knowing German very well.
>>8136619
"I still have some breads to smear"
>>8136619
"Would you like me to pour some compote into your hood?"
>>8136701
Different German learner here. Thanks for the recommendations. I've been looking for good high school level novels to get into.
>>8136792
you're welcome, shoot questions for native German speakers at me if you have any
>>8136811
What are the best German translations for the Russian classics?
>>8136739
Isn't that bread to butter?
