[The writer of this article wishes to state that it was written last spring, and is printed here without changes, although in the present condition of European affairs, the opening paragraph sounds ...

Reporting from Berlin — Guenter Grass, the Nobel-winning German writer who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era but later ran into controversy over his own ...

Michael Curschmann, a professor of Germanic languages and literatures, emeritus, at Princeton University, died Oct. 7 at his home in Princeton. He was 81. Curschmann's wide-ranging scholarship on ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A New History of German Literature actually delivers far more than its title suggests. It consists of some 200 ...

George C. Schoolfield, professor emeritus of German and Scandinavian literature, died on July 21 after a long illness. He was 90 years old. Schoolfield focused his research on German literature and ...

ONE cannot discuss postwar German literature without considering the political and social situation of the country. The unconditional surrender of 1945 brought, after all, not only liberation from ...

“A New History of German Literature” exceeds any simple, singular definition of “history,” “literature,” or even “German.” Spanning 13 centuries, the book, published by Harvard University Press, ...

How is it that the culture of German-speaking Europe has so profoundly influenced and shaped Western civilization—and especially the culture of the United States—through the centuries and into today?

An Austrian, she was among the most decorated German-language poets of the postwar period, producing a large body of daring work. By A.J. Goldmann Friederike Mayröcker, who was among the most ...