On his 80th birthday, May 7, 2019, Suhrkamp Verlag is proud to present new texts:
Writings, speeches, and burlesques.
Relocating the Secret Point gathers underground texts and speeches. The collection opens with a satire of expatriation written in January 1977 and is followed by the radical pamphlet Büchner’s Letters; it contains essays on Shakespeare and Rimbaud, Goethe and Kafka: poetry and politics, and points to a shift in the work that will grow into a radical change.
Relocating the Secret Point gathers underground texts and speeches. The collection opens with a satire of expatriation written in January 1977 and is followed by the radical pamphlet Büchner’s Letters; it contains essays on Shakespeare and Rimbaud, Goethe and Kafka: poetry and politics, and points to a shift in the work that will grow into a radical change.
»These ›nudges‹ definitely have the makings and the originality to tempt one to ponder the time(s).« Roland Gutsch, Nordkurier
»The poet, playwright, novelist and essayist Volker Braun impresses with polemic poignancy, literary elegance and intellectual finesse.« Cornelia Jentzsch, Deutschlandfunk
»The exceptional thing about Volker Braun’s texts is how they venture into depths and from the historical underground bring to light the hope that was buried with the dead.« Michael Opitz, WDR
»a powerful voice, influential, smart« Leipziger Volkszeitung
»the most important German political poet after Bertolt Brecht« Christian Eger, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
»These ›nudges‹ definitely have the makings and the originality to tempt one to ponder the time(s).« Roland Gutsch, Nordkurier
»The poet, playwright, novelist and essayist Volker Braun impresses with polemic poignancy, literary elegance and intellectual finesse.« Cornelia Jentzsch, Deutschlandfunk
»The exceptional thing about Volker Braun’s texts is how they venture into depths and from the historical underground bring to light the hope that was buried...
Persons
Volker Braun
Born in Dresden in 1939, when he was younger, Braun worked as a printer and in an open pit mine. Subsequently, he studied philosophy in Leipzig and worked at the Berliner Ensemble until 1990. Volker Braun lives in Berlin.
Born in Dresden in 1939, when he was younger, Braun worked as a printer and in an open pit mine. Subsequently, he studied philosophy in Leipzig...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
An Ongoing Attempt to Live With Violent Forces
Great Fugue
»What did you do in 2020?« The year when the world is »moved, all of a sudden, to stand still«. When the streets are »humanless«, the city is quietened and...
UK & ANZ (Smokestack Books)
Coup
Considering contemporary conditions, what possibilities does a writer have of effecting change? On intimate terms with all literary traditions, Volker Braun makes use of tried and tested prose forms to come closer to an answer: aphorisms, pieces of dialogue, quotes. In his workshop dreams, puzzling fragments, and stubborn truths all come to light.
This series of coup-like attacks...
The Novel of Hinze and Kunze
First published in 1985 after years of wrangling with the East German authorities,...
Working Days 2
These were decisive years: Volker Braun redefines himself in the reunified Germany....
Work Book I
Sometimes...
Patchwork
Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Métailié)
What's Really Wanted
Giorgio Badini, son of a Tuscan mason, now professor emeritus and owner of a country estate, is enjoying retirement with his wife. But the two pensioners suddenly find their house occupied by a...
Greece (Enastron)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Inventaire)