Literature in Germany

Friedrich von Schiller Enlarge image Friedrich von Schiller (© picture-alliance/dpa) 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 4,000 book stores and 7,500 libraries 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.

120th Anniversary of the Birth of the Writer Kurt Tucholsky

The journalist and writer Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), who undoubtedly wielded one of the Weimar Republic’s most caustic pens as well as being an outstanding literary critic and an astute observer of contemporary political and social developments, would have turned 120 this year.

Kurt Tucholsky

“Tales of Courage”

This was the name chosen by a Berlin initiative which, over twenty years ago, sought to overcome the division of Germany’s capital, using “tales of courage” to unite people across borders. Fairy tale heroes, although they might feel small, are brave enough to fight for and win their freedom.....

“Tales of Courage”