Literature
Germany is a book country: With around 95,000 titles published or re-published annually, it is one of the world’s leading book nations. There are more than 4,400 book stores, 7,500 libraries and 2,000 literary publishers in Germany, with the major publishing cities being Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Stuttgart, Cologne, and Hamburg. The licenses for almost 9,000 German books are sold to foreign companies annually. In the fall of each year, the publishing world gathers in Germany at the world’s largest meeting of the trade, the International Frankfurt Book Fair. Held each spring, the Leipzig Book Fair is a smaller event that has now become well established.
German author Herta Müller, her works once banned under the Romanian dictatorship, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009. Müller is the thirteenth German-language author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
Nobel for Herta Müller
Fairy tales – from the classics recorded by the Grimm Brothers to modern takes such as “The Neverending Story” or the “Inkheart” trilogy – still captivate readers of all ages. The largest festival for fairy tale enthusiasts takes place annually in Berlin.
Fairy Tales
With the fall of the wall in 1989, a specific East German literary tradition, partly controlled by the Socialist Unity Party (SED), also collapsed. How should GDR literature be evaluated today? An interview with the East German literature expert, Holger Helbig.
East German Literary Tradition
It was a refuge for Lion Feuchtwanger and a meeting place for German and American intellectuals. Today, Villa Aurora continues this tradition: as a residence for transatlantic cultural interchange.
The Villa Aurora
Source of main intro:
Facts about Germany www.facts-about-germany.de
