To all the german Veeky Forumsizens out there. Do you know of any good contemporary german authors worth reading? Bonus points for unknown ones
German contemporary lit
Brody Cox
Jace Smith
>good contemporary german authors
Jeremiah Wilson
Long and dense books:
Das bessere Leben
Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
Der Turm
Famous authors:
Juli Zeh
Comfy authors:
Walter Moers
Shitty ones:
that 15 year old girl who copied everything
The Deutscher Buchpreis is usually a good start, especially the short list: deutscher-buchpreis.de
Matthew Collins
Better link to short lists/long lists: deutscher-buchpreis.de
Brandon Garcia
the only people reading german contemporary literature are 50 year old women
Ryan Allen
german, or writing in german?
anyway, I'd say Josef Winkler... But beside that I don't know much about contemporary literature, yet I believe that Suhrkamp is still putting out nothing but great books.
Jose Peterson
Hertha Müller
literary scene is pretty shit t.b.h.d.e.s.u.
Robert Gonzalez
>Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
Cooper Cooper
I haven't read any contemporary authors in a long time, but I remember being recommended Charles Lewinsky and Michael Köhlmeier by people I generally hold in high regards.
James Turner
does anyone watch das literarische quartett
seems cringy and unwatchable
Levi James
Why are suhrkamp books so incredibly ugly and expensive
20 bucks for the ugliest book I've ever seen
Ian Clark
OP here. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Someone read this? amazon.de
I read a pretty enthusiastic article about it some time ago and will probably buy it.
Rarely. Sometimes I find Maxim Biller entertaining, but most of the time he is just so annoying, and in his columsn he spills out so much bullshit simply to provoke. But I guess he is still smarter than the rest.
Hunter Stewart
It's just not what it used to be
The old episodes are still watchable though
Ryan Butler
we should infest this board with a german speaking general tbqh
Zachary Barnes
eh the guests are ok sometimes
Andrew Morales
Agreed
Michael Carter
It might be alright, but I kind of enjoy that this is a board that isn't flooded with generals except for those autistic sci-fi/fantasy faggots.
Jonathan Campbell
I remember there was a german thread quite regularly
Xavier Hill
Pierre Krebs
James Harris
Fuck off
Tyler Murphy
What's wrong, You a refugee or something?
Tyler Sanders
/pol/
Michael Murphy
Does the European New Right scare morons this much
Thomas Scott
no, it's just annoying and arguing with morons is boring
>you disagree with me therefore you must be intimidated by my inevitable truth
like a child
Nicholas Campbell
Some people are too stupid to get with the times.
It's the current year, all those old 2007-2015 shitlibs need to hurry up and die already so society can move forward.
Owen Rivera
Handke
Grass
Herta Müller
Sebald
Ingo Schulze
Landon Evans
>contemporary
>Grass
>dead for a year and wrote his major work half a century ago
>Sebald
>dead for 15 years
Handke and Schulz are disgusting tb.h
Cooper Green
>Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
I didn't know light novels were a thing in Germany too.
Carson Martinez
>The Discovery of the Red Army Faction because of a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969
What was meant by this?
Eli Fisher
google the definition of contemporary literature, dummy
>Handke and Schulz are disgusting tb.h
sure
Brayden Edwards
>hiding behind definitions because you're wrong
ok kid
Jacob Nelson
I don't know if you are stupid or epic rusing. DFW and Bolaño are contemporary literature even though both are dead. Philip Roth is contemporary literature even though he is retired and his first book was released in the 50s. Péter Esterházy didn't suddenly become not contemporary because he died two weeks ago.
Michael Thompson
>I read a pretty enthusiastic article about it some time ago and will probably buy it.
Hahaha, I probably read the same article (ZEIT, iirc) and bought it. Was rather insane, but definitely fun.
Other recommendations:
Georg Klein’s writing is something quite out of the ordinary. Like a modern-day Kafka with a lot of pulp motives. I’d recommend „Die Anrufung des blinden Fisches“ if you want something hardcore, otherwise „Roman unserer Kindheit“, which actually starts out as a fairly enjoyable novel about a 50’s/60’s childhood and only gets a bit weird towards the end.
By the way, Georg Klein even won the Bachmannpreis in ~2000.
Another Bachmannpreis-winner (2nd place) is Dorothee Elmiger. I haven’t read her second book yet, but I definitely enjoyed „Einladung an die Waghalsigen“.
Klaus Böldl is another author I like, and one whose writing is – in contrast Klein and Elmiger – very realistic. What I enjoy about his books is the slightly gloomy, uneasy atmosphere and – at the same time – their contemplativeness. He’s very focused on nature, almost stoic.
„Südlich von Abisko“ and „Studie in Kristallbildung“ are two novellas of his that I’ve read, and „Der nächtliche Lehrer“ is a more traditional novel.
Martin von Arndt has written a very stupid/great book called „ego shooter“, about a guy that’s making a living playing games on the internet and also close to dying due to some kind of illness. The text has his first person perspective and he modifies most nouns with „scheiß“ or similar. I really liked the whole thing for how exaggerated it was. Then I read the other two available books by this author and they were… alright. They are far less bold.
Finally, I also like Christian Kracht a lot I guess, though I feel that „Faserland“ and „1979“ were really his best novels.
What I like about all these authors is that they aren’t very politic.
Colton Young
Thank you so much for those recs. We must have a rather similar taste, because I find all those authors interesting (and based on your description and amazon page Klaus Böldl sounds like it could become my new fav).
And yes, I think it was in die ZEIT :)