Literary Advent Calendar: How Herman Melville shaped Elmar Krekeler

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Morning update, December 23rd: Elmar Krekeler on “Bartleby, the writer”

Elmar Krekeler speaks about the freedom of the adult sentence “I would prefer not to”. What it means exactly, he tells in the video. About a classic that changed his life.

How Herman Melville shaped Elmar Krekeler

Elmar Krekeler on a dangerous and free book.

Morning update, December 22nd: Marc Reichwein on Robert Walser

As a student, Marc Reichwein discovered that he already knew the “Hikes with Robert Walser” from Carl Seelig’s book from his childhood. At least the ways. About a writer who fell silent in the Herisau sanatorium and who is now a classic.

How Robert Walser shaped Marc Reichwein

Morning update, December 21: Josefin Herrmann on Paulo Coelho

Today’s book is about death and therefore of course also about life. Josefin Herrmann on a story that showed her how beautiful 24 hours can be.

How Paolo Coelho shaped Josefin Herrmann

Josefin Herrmann on a book that describes the beauty of just 24 hours.

Morning update, December 20th: Jonas Feldt on depression

“I haven’t given a book as often as this one.” Today’s tip contains heavy fare: How do mental illnesses spread in the world? Jonas Feldt on a moment of awakening that shaped him and his studies.

LW 20 Advent calendar Jonas Feldt

Jonas Feldt on a book that explains how mental illnesses spread across the world.

Morning update, December 19: Andreas Rosenfelder on everything that interests you at the age of 18

Our section head of the feuilleton, Andreas Rosenfelder, reveals why he became a journalist.

Andreas Rosenfelder on Michail Bulgakow

Andreas Rosenfelder tells how Mikhail Bulgakov changed his life. And how to really pronounce the famous author.

Morning update, December 18: Lena Karger on instructions on how to get rid of your pregnant girlfriend

Our volunteer Lena Karger is enthusiastic about a book whose protagonist works his way up to the top with its charm.

Lena Karger on Theodore Dreiser

Morning update, December 17th: Sascha Lehnartz on literature that destabilizes and stabilizes

30 years ago Sascha Lehnartz read this book in a literary studies seminar. And took something for life.

Sascha Lehnartz on James Joyce

Sascha Lehnartz about a pompous book that overwhelms you and throws you off track.

Morning update, December 16: Julia Hackober on a helpful approach to life

Julia Hackober, editor in the style department, reads us a world-famous first half-sentence. She first got to know the story of Mr. and Ms. Darcy as a teenager through the film adaptation with Keira Knightley.

Julia Hackober on Jane Austen

On December 16, Julia Hackober presents us an author who not only shaped her life, but also has her birthday today. Happy Birthday Jane Austen!

Morning update, December 15th: Peter Praschl through an Internet acquaintance

Sometimes the comment area on the Internet still gives reason to be happy. Through him, Peter Praschl discovered a great poet who made the world look new again.

How Monika Rinck shaped Peter Praschl

Peter Praschl about a mysterious encounter on the Internet and texts that make him happy.

Morning update, December 14th: Jan Küveler on a novel that annoyed critics of the time

When he was 18 years old, our chief correspondent in the features section was given a book that shaped his life. It’s about a concept that seems dangerous today: masculinity.

Jan Küveler on Flaubert

Jan Küveler recommends a novel that annoyed the critics of the time very much.

Morning update, December 13th: Thore Barfuss recommends a basic mathematical education

Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote this book for his daughter, who did not do well in school. Nevertheless, everyone, children and adults, should take it to hand, thinks our news boss Thore Barfuss.

Thore Barfuss on Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Thore Barfuss recommends a book that we should all pick up today.

Morning update, December 12th: Hannah Lühmann on a sentence that she has never forgotten

Sometimes your parents will read something to you that you won’t forget. It was the same for our editor Hannah Lühmann. She tells of a children’s book that she read twenty times as an adult.

Hannah Lühmann on a sentence that she has never forgotten

Hannah Lühmann on a sentence that taught her a lot about storytelling.

Morning update, December 11th: Frédéric Schwilden on the love of picture books for detail

Frédéric Schwilden talks about a book that he enjoyed reading with his children as a young father. There are: a motorcycle, a band with M and Thomas Müller.

Frédéric Schwilden recommends a children’s book

Most of Frédéric Schwilden’s children’s books are too moral and Waldorf educational. But this convinced him.

Morning update, December 10th: Richard Kämmerlings on the tragedy of every human being

“Would it be possible? Can I no longer do what I wanted? Not going back, as I like? ”So begins a monologue that is almost as famous as its author. Our literary correspondent Richard Kämmerlings on a work whose tragedy inspired him.

Richard Kämmerlings on Schiller

Richard Kämmerlings tells of a basic human conflict.

Morning update, December 9th: What Matthias Heine has to do with Heinrich Heine

Matthias Heine recommends a book that he read on the beach in Denmark in 1980 – and which is “the best book that has ever been written about German intellectual history”.

How Heinrich Heine shaped Matthias Heine

Matthias Heine recommends a book by his namesake, with which you not only learn to think, but also win every boxing match against an old Hegelian.

Morning update, December 8th: Clara Ott recommends medicine for reading

Clara Ott is an editor in the “Knowledge” section. On December 8th she is sending us sunny Christmas greetings from San Francisco and a medicine to read.

Clara Ott on Matt Haig

Clara Ott sends us Christmas greetings from San Francisco and a medicine to read.

Morning update, December 7th: Why Michael Pilz became a chemist

From chemistry to writing and music: our pop author Michael Pilz was inspired to make these leaps by a book he read as a teenager.

Michael Pilz on Primo Levi

As a teenager, Michael Pilz read “The Periodic System” by Primo Levi. Our editor reveals in the video what the book is about besides chemistry.

Morning update, December 6th: Ulf Poschardt and the love of existentialism

Happy St. Nicholas Day! Today Ulf Poschardt tells us which book he bought for one euro when he was 14. The proof that you can buy food for life in the supermarket.

Ulf Poschardt on Jean-Paul Sartre

At the age of 14, Ulf Poschardt read Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Time of Maturity”. Why reading it, even if he understood next to nothing at the time, impressed and shaped him.

Morning update, December 5th: Marie-Luise Goldmann on a novel that haunts her

Today’s novel was flown in from New York. Marie-Luise Goldmann on a book that has accompanied her for a long time, both physically and mentally. And what that has to do with the people around them.

Marie-Luise Goldmann on Thomas Mann

Some books are dragged around with you forever. Marie-Luise Goldmann means that in the best sense of the word.

Morning update, December 4th: This book impressed Deniz Yücel as an unruly teenager

At 17, Deniz Yücel was “unruly and overconfident”, that’s what he says about himself today. He didn’t get along well with his headmaster. Nevertheless, in his German class he was able to understand why an often asked question is nonsense.

Deniz Yucel über Kafka

It’s day 4 in the literary Advent calendar and Deniz Yücel is bringing a classic with her. What Kafka taught him about the nature of great art.

Morning update, December 3rd: Anna Schneider’s plea for freedom

Anna Schneider proves that even non-fiction books can stir up feelings. It’s about freedom, of course, and it was written by a philosopher. Unfortunately, he has already died, and Anna Schneider says that we urgently need his opinion right now.

Anna Schneider on Carlo Strenger

It is day 3 in the literary Advent calendar and Anna Schneider has brought the first non-fiction book with her. Why she keeps thinking about this book right now.

Morning update, December 2nd: With this book, Hanns-Georg Rodek understood films

This book inspired a deep love and a career: Hanns-Georg Rodek on a text that taught him how directors manipulate viewers. And who made him the film editor.

Hanns-Georg Rodek on Truffaut and Hitchcock

This book stimulated a deep love and a career in Hanns-Georg Rodek.

Morning update, December 1st: How Sartre shaped Mara Delius

Books change how we look at the world and what we want to experience in it. Until December 24th, the members of the editorial team will tell you which texts have left their mark on them. It all starts with Mara Delius, editor of the “Literary World”. About a novel she read as a teenager and why she considers her choice to be a cliché.

Mara Delius on Sartre

Which book changed you? The members of the editorial team will ask this every day from now on. Mara Delius starts the advent calendar with a youth confession.

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