EDITORIAL
COVER FEATURE
  GOETHE RELOADED
WORDS AND PICTURES
  Jens Balzer The comic comes
  out
  The touching autobiography of
  illustrator Alison Bechdel:
  how she discovered her
  homosexuality and lost her father
WHODUNNIT
  Skinny-dipping in Oxford Franz
  Schuh on British crime thrillers
  with the allure of academia
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
  Jutta Person
  Elisabeth Bronfen: Tiefer als der Tag gedacht
  Heinrich Detering
  Peter Handke: Die morawische Nacht
  Holger Noltze
  Hector Berlioz: Memoirs
  Ruth Kluger
  Philip Roth: Exit Ghost
  Eva Horn
  Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
  Manfred Schneider
  Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Hammerstein
NOTES AND LETTERS
  Niels Werber From honey bees to parasites
  New insights into writer Ernst Jünger, lawyer Carl Schmitt
  and philosopher Hans Blumenberg
WORLD POETRY
  Peer Trilcke The song of the avenging fig
  Poetry by Inger Christensen, Les Murray, Charles Simic,
  Tomas Venclova and Derek Walcott in new translations
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
  Fridtjof Küchemann A long, long time ago …
  Stories about knights are good rollicking reads where you
  know what to expect. Felicitas Hoppe, however, injects
  the genre with some strange ideas
JOURNAL
  Reviews of new books by
  Denis Johnson || Marianne
  Bechhaus-Gerst || Claire Messud || Ingo Hermann ||
  Jenny Erpenbeck || Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison ||
  Christoph Hoffmann || António Lobo Antunes || Misha
  Aster || Walter Kempowski Illustrated books by
  Peter Bialobrzeski || Francesco Tiradritti ||
  Thomas Struth || Matthias Flügge
ASIDE
  Sybille Berg In a small country where wealth is blossoming
  Having money makes people happy. So stop feeling
  enviousand let’s have riches for everyone!
DOUBLE PORTRAIT
  Frauke Meyer-Gosau The man in the light raincoat
  The three lives of Rudolf Herrnstadt: journalist, spy and
  ‘Citizen Kane’ of the GDR, described by his daughter
  Irina Liebmann
IN BRIEF
  Books by Nick Hornby || Hans-Joachim Maaz ||
  Jochen Schmidt || Michael Gazzaniga || Joachim
  Sartorius || Bernard Noël Illustrated books by
  Howell Conant || Rupprecht Geiger
MAGAZINE
  From the middle of Barcelona || Calendar || Net results ||
  Talking books || Letters to the editor || What are you
  reading, Nicholas Shakespeare? || Literature on film ||
  New editions in paperback
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GOETHE RELOADED 4
  Master of crises, Olympian repressor – who would have
  thought that the grand old figurehead of German literature
  would regain so much public interest?
Sigrid Löffler “And so, over graves, onwards!“
  The same old Goethe seen in a new light: while the great
  writer spent his later years securing his reputation, new
  books reveal the barely concealed misery he lived in, both
  in private and in politics
Poetry and comics: Australian UNIVERSAL POET LES
  MURRAY sings of “Cell DNA” (p. 50) while ALISON
  BECHDEL tells of her sad love for her father in
  pictures (p. 16)
Berlin’s STALIN ALLEE was to provide the setting for a
  new life. Then June 17 happened. For RUDOLF
  HERRNSTADT, ‘Citizen Kane’ of the GDR, it meant
  his downfall. His daughter IRINA LIEBMANN has
  written his biography (p. 76)