Before he has been working for two years in French Indochina as an aeroplane-mechanic. The French Vespa Magazin rode an articel about him. More fotos of the tour than the one on the website more. His father is 81 and living 1 hour from the museum. He will phone his fahther and ask him all.
Er kennt seine Tochter. Peter Backhaus "on the road". Two screenshots out of the film "Farbzauber des Orients". Only two flat tires.
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To make a film for schools: Back by ship to Europe. Rundfunk-Interview in in Baghdad. Besonders schwierige Strecken damals: Alexandropolis nach Edirne in Ostgriechenland. German Matthias Kirketerp is now the owner and has the rights of the films. He knew Peter H. Backhaus and his wife personally very well. In Peters film-archive Matthias found the original film-roles of the cinema-film "Around-The-World" after Peter died and a copy of the cinema-film.
This has to be restored. A trailer already exists for producers of the film. Film "Barbzauber des Orients". Backhaus travelled through Germany and offered reports as well in schools. Around-The-World with two Goggomobiles: Marlotte Backhaus and Peter H. Die Original-Filmrollen der Motorradtour gibt es nicht mehr. Auch die Original-Texte sind noch da. Er muss noch restauriert werden, was Sie sind bereits digitalisiert. Die alten Nitrofilme des Googofilms durften nicht mehr in Kinos gezeigt werden.
Werbetext zum Film in http: Und deshalb sind sie losgezogen, die damals noch nicht verheirateten Hamburger Marlotte Aue und Peter Backhaus, an einem kalten Oktobertag des Jahres Und ausgerechnet in einem Goggomobil. Beruhigend wirkte der Hinweis, es seien ausreichend Mittel an Bord, um sie "von jedem Ort der Welt heil mit dem Flugzeug nach Hause zu bringen". Spendable Glas-Werke machen den Goggo weltreisefest. Finanziert werden sollte die Fahrt unter anderem mit einem Film - Peter Backhaus war bereits vier Jahre zuvor mit einer Horex und einer mm-Kamera nach Indien gereist und hatte den Dokumentarfilm "Zauber des Orients" mitgebracht.
Die Bolex H16 mit Revolverobjektiv und Federwerk musste alle 20 Sekunden aufgezogen werden, und das Filmmaterial verlangte sparsamen Umgang - zwei Minuten Umkehrfilm kosteten damals 40 Mark. Und auch sonst legten die Hamburger unterwegs Wert auf Stil: Before he made a long journey through Scandianvia with a Lambretta. In Syria desert the ignition stopped and he had to wait 25 hours without water befor a truck came. After 5 months he arrived in Saigon and passed Burma.
The route was not easy for them. Elisabeth wrote a book about this tour in Danish: A Trip to India and the Middle East Kosten pro Person DM , Die gesamte Reise inklusive der Busfahrt von Teheran nach Meschede betrug Purpose of your travel: Kourosch lud mich nach dem Studium zu einem Besuch in sein Heimatland den Iran ein. Dann lernten wir in Mazedonien noch einen Tourist aus Burma kennen, der mit einem Motorrad von seinem Heimatland nach Westeuropa mit dem Ziel Schweden unterwegs war.
Kardangummi in Istanbul defekt. Es gibt einen seitigen Tagebuch-Bericht. Bericht in einer Motorrad-Zeitschrift gab es nicht. Earlier motorcyle travel experiences: Cesare Battaglini Italian, born ca. Winner of the over He won a million lire. Oriente Misterioso ed Africa esplorati col mio scooter. Around-The-World on a Lambretta. Great Britain - Asia - Australia. Hans Winter halfen ihnen in Griechenland bei einer Reifenpanne.
This were their addresses in And where they are now? Man from Burma Plan: Burma - Great Britain. Hans does not have a name or address but a picture. And where is he now? It is the first and only time I hear that a person from Burma is riding a motorcycle from Burma to Europe. They started from Saigon heading for Paris on two Peugeot-scooters Around the World on a Nickel. Der Grund der Reise: Der Monsunregen hatte in Nord-Burma eingesetzt und die Zeit reichte nicht. Singapore - Malaysia - Burma -? The Companion Book Club. In two women rode in 3 months on one ccm Lambretta from Great Britain to Australia.
ISBN and Mit der Vespa Ireland to India in the early '60s. ISBN 0 09 X. Buch im Selbstverlag herausgegeben. Anji rode solo with a Matchless. Purpose of this tour: Anji and his son are riding. Send the three best fotos of this tour in high scan-quality for your blog. Send the website of your agency to promote it. Peter Dumlich in He had asked Vespa to partially sponsor his trip but never recieved an answer.
The scooter journey began on June 7, and came to a grinding halt broken rear axle on October 4, The total cost for the trip: The speedometer had broken halfway through my journey. Wherever I went, I was absolutely astonished by the unexpected hospitality of the mostly poor people. Low of the journey: When the scooter broke down in Nepal. I had to sell the Vespa in Kathmandu. By thumb and train back to Germany. Travel while you are young and single and never refuse offered hospitality. By now I have forgotten the fleas I picked up this way, but I have not forgotten that I slept in a "bed" while the owner of this bed slept on the floor.
Considering, dass es in Persien dem heutigen Iran keine asphaltierten Strassen gab Teheran war die Ausnahme kann ich mit reinem Gewissen behaupten, dass auch ich einige Abenteuer im Sand erlebte. Auf alle Faelle stimme ich mit Dir ueberein: Motorrad Reisende tragen zur Weltverstaendigung bei. He will send me a copy of the slides. Peter wrote to me: Fuer mich zaehlt nur eine Sache. Ich moechte, dass viele junge Leute, bevor sie sich ehelich festlegen und Kinder zeugen, erst die Welt ansehen und Botschafter fuer die Verstaendigung der verschiedenen Voelker und Religionen werden.
Es ist nicht der reiche Tourist, sondern der minderbemittelte Student, der zur Voelkerverstaendigung beitraegt. German Scooter Forum http: Das Motto der Reise von Roberto war, unterwegs auf seiner In vespa da Milano a Tokyo. Pane e chilometri Brot und Kilometer. Dieselbe story von Italy-Japan. Duckert Roberto war Rennfahrer, Reisender.
There idea was to be there at the beginning of the Olympic games. After he finished his job in Kenya he wanted to go overland back to Sweden. By ship old passengership MS State of Haryana with It took them two days before they got their motorcycles through the burocracy. Article in Sewdish Mc. Plan ist es in 11 Tagen wieder in Deutschland zu sein. Karl-Friedrich kauft bei mir Sandbleche ein. Danach gab es noch viele Kontakte.
Salzmann Europe - Nepal. In the homepage of Hymer they say: First Caravan in Nepal. Der billigste Trip nach Indien. Gerard Neveu Book in French: Jochen Jo flew together with his girlfriend Ingrid to Singapore , were he bought a Honda CB Four 50 horsepower duty free for the half market price of Germany. At this time it was the first japanese four cylinder-motorbike availlable which was sold only two years later in the german market. In total he travelled He was tired of beeing a busdriver, travelling many times 20 times as the driver of magic bus overland from Europe to Nepal , always experiencing lots of trouble with one of his many passengers.
Together they travelled from Singapore to Malaysia and all over Thailand for 2 months 5. Along the eastcost he rode his bike down south to Rameswaram and took a boatpassage to Sri Lanka. Passing a dangerous Tamil Tiger-warzone at night, he enjoyed a hot swedish traveller girl in Colombo. Back in India he describes a tragic traffic accident which almost cost his life by lynch-justice. Helpfull Railway-personal let him escape in a train-cargo-wagon. So he seems to be a hardcore-traveller, from Goa on he rides his Sativa name of his motorbike with a plasterleg in which he integrates a kind of trestel on a ridersboot to be able to change the gears.
The route goes on via Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran into Turkey. From Bombay on he is travelling together with an also experienced Motorbikerider, named Brami. Everybody at this hippie-times wanted to find himself a freedom, different cultures and for sure not only sunny days but the sun, was enough motive to travel to Asia. The friendliness of the people enroute, hundreds of invitations were another great experience and the impression of Jo is, that bikies are admired by the people as the knights of all the adventurer and the explorer on the road.
Deffinetively the tragic traffic accident in Meysore India and having not enough time to stay over winter in Goa South India , so the trip got unpleasant after Teheran Iran with harse weather, even snowed in pass-roads in Turkey. Useful informations and TIPS for others: Later experiences of big Motorcycle-Tours: Thailand , Laos and Cambodia on several occasions, to 07 Januar Or adressses of relations with Emails. Few would have to show the iron cross and the USSR championship. Old Masters final for the hike motorcycle saddle was a trip to the desert Karakumi - a.
Vadim became involved in the project after four Estonians. Vadim donated his famous, real as maintained hiking Kurtna Jawa motorcycle museum. Historical bikers can be seen in the museum on the second floor. Such men are the younger generation motomatkajatele tubliks model. Written by Urmas Kauniste. Herbert Roelandt Belgium, born He likes to ride the motorcycle. And it is a lot nicer than working. All the friends that I met. Herbert rides motorcycles since He rode much more than 1 million km on several motorcycles. Herbert went 8 times to Northcape, Norway, and toured a lot in Scandinavia.
He did several tours to North Africa. First trip in , last trip so far in to Mongolia. Toured all countries in Northern America several times. All between Panama and Alaska.
Then the rebells of a new goverment stopped the kingdom. Cr u nsdreef 6. WHO knows this person, adresss? He rented a motorcycle there: Solo in one year with a BMW. Nino hat auf dem 7. Dieser Vortrag ist uns wegen Ninos Humors unvergessen. Einmal vom Motorrad- Reise- Bazillus angesteckt fuhr Nino wieder los: Ich kaufe mir dort ein kleines Motorrad: Einmal Motorradfahrer, immer Motorradfahrer! Porpose of the trip: Not friendly people at all!!!
Just dreaming being awake!!! The most fantactic trip I ever did!! Asked for second update??.??. Zu Gast bei Engelbert Boos: Sein Gespann wartete im Garten einmal wieder auf eine Reparatur. Three Trips to Russia: They intend to ride and travel the next ten years. Eric and Gail started riding motorcycles. The American lawer and Mc-Traveller Eric is carrying his wife on the back of his BMW, because - as he told me here in Zweifall at my home - she is the "boss".
But in fact she is following him where ever he wants to go: They learned to love the Russian friendship and the mosquitos. The trip took place in and I was living in Hong Kong and we received permission to drive from Hong Kong to Gwelin only five days. The next year we got permission to do Hong Kong-Shanghai for two weeks. We were one of the first people let in by bike after thats what they told us anyway. They advertised our trip and when we arrived in Fuzhou there were several thousand people waiting for us, including the governess of the province of Fujian as well as old communist officials.
We were several bikes and we had a police car in front and one at the rear for the entire trip. Francoise und Philippe Deck: ISBN 0 06 6. Giorgio wrote a book about his Vespa trip from Rome to Saigon in with 7,5 months. He also did Alaska - Tierra del Fuego in Vespa He has done other trips all on a Vespa but I have no other specifics.
Milano Teatro Dal Verme. He is a cult traveler in the Vespa world tourers. And has published about 5 books about his mototouring experiences by now. He passed away in unfortunately. He got food poison while planning to do his vespa tour of Tibet. I know his wife, Yapei, who lives in Jingghon China. If you want I can get you in contact with her. Giorgio Bettinelli and his wife were visitors of the Tesch-Travel-Treffen. His book "In Vespa" came out in Vietnam language in According to the Scootering Magazine, Bettinelli got his first Vespa in when he was After returning to Italy, he continued his Vespa adventures through a number of countries.
He wrote several books about his trips, but they are only available in Italian. Bettinlli, who worked as a writer and journalist in his lifetime, died in China from a sudden illness in , aged He lived there for 4 years with his wife Yapei. EUR 6,99 Kindle Edition. All books see www. Back by plane to Moscow and by bikes back to Germany. Unbelieveable friendship of Russian people. A journey in the European past.
No puncture, no mechanical problems. I prepared this tour 4 years since with hundreds of letters including those to German canceler Kohl and president Gorbatschow who answered "No". But I did NOT give up. Finally I succeeded tricky to get visas. Atlantik Frankreich - Transrussland- Pazifik Wladiwostok. With motorcycle from the Atlantic to Pacific. C Foto aus seiner facebook-Seite Petersburg - Osaka - Shanghai Starting with four, but finishing solo.
It was not the problem of that excellent bikes. After many tours to Siberia then by bike at that time and for many years longest tour in this region on own Wheels. Friendship with many good people. Visiting Republic of Tuwa by bike. Stolen carburators in Moscow. And - because of heavy rains no chance to ride all Siberia on own wheels.
Still one of the best slideshows of this: Many on Eastern Europe and Russia. Since then various times to Russia also by bike. Und drei beste Fotos erbeten. Kate was the first Australian and woman who cycled "in one line Transrussia on this way"-. Kate cycled in five months days Accompanied by Brit Greg Yeoman and five different Russian cyclists who covered various sections of the trip, the day expedition was completed one day ahead of schedule, before the onset of the severe Russian winter and despite tackling the 1,km swamp in eastern Siberia, where no vehicles could pass.
It is beautifully written and well worth the read. Mit Visum und diesem Schreiben bekam er problemlos an der chinesischen Grenze wichtig: Ein "Carnet de Passage" wurde in China nicht verlangt! Verkehrszeichen aus China besorgen lassen. Die Polizei - Kontrolle erfolgt nur an den Provinz - Grenzen. Tanken und Nahrung in China war kein Problem. Alle - km Tankstelle.
Das Preisniveau in China liegt eher unter dem russischen Niveau.
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Dauerte zwei Tage bis Abflug. Bis auf Schauer kein Regen. Genauer Strecken - Verlauf: As well for his 2 months motorcycle-tour in SAmerica. Theos passion has always been motorcycle-travels. Once the policeman lost his hand completely. But he did not give up and so he rode with one hand and a prothese and his daughter on the pillion from Austria to China and entered it. And the doctors of medicine managed to adapt this hand to him successfully. Walter Colebatch and James Mudie Australian motorcyclists, born both??
Both set out from Japan to become the first people to ride and conquer the roads, cities and vast expanses of China, Mongolia, Siberia and Kazakhstan, unescorted, on their way to London. The Tokyo to London Project is the story behind that journey. Bruno Blum gave me his address. But I did not have time to look at this. His email did not work out of the homepage. I copied the homepage and tried to send him a first email with my firm-portrait. Klaus travelled with his friend Claudia Liebe three months from Dehli to Istanbul.
Going overland to or better from India was a dream since he travelled with his parents to Iran when he was six years old. With "Hundred Days in Asia" his dream came true. This trip was full of highlights: Most of all the people and races along the trip and almost no other tourists and the landscape especially in Kashmir. Travelling in the CIS in was a special experience, before almost no information was available, thanks for your help Bernd!!!!
At the end we ran out of time, and URAL is of poor quality. We took a ferry from Venice Italy to Marmaris Turkey. Back to Europe we took a plane for us and the motorcycles. I want to travel around the world, step by step, with my motorcycle. Most of the people were very friendly and hospitable, but unbeatable in Turkey!!! We got in prison, without a reason, for 1 day in Kurdistan Turkey. I got Malaria in Pakistan. The terrible traffic in India. Important useful informations for others: Lake of Tiberias, golden Jerusalem wonderful at sunset. No horn-blowing like in Italy.
My useful informations and TIPS for others: Lead free fuel available. Avoid trouble with israelian police and follow instructions of israelian soldiers. Ferry Piraeus — Haifa cancelled since The inhabitans told him that he probably was the first western person coming from the west. The Russians plan to finish the road via Amur-river parralel to transsib in Shanghai - Peking and back without motorcycle the motorcycle was kept in customs at Shanghai.
By boat to Hong Kong. No chance to ride in Vietnam, because of law: No bikes over ccm. By boat to Singapur. At present he rides in New Zealand. He was the first Swiss I know riding the kms along the Amur-river overland in and the first one I know at all. Toni was one of the very first I know who made it into Kambodscha with his own motorcycle.
Exchanging At once some letters with Toni I found out that he is a very experienced mc-world-traveller having lost a part of his diary and fotos in the Mekong-River Kambodscha. About 17, riding miles and 4. We flew from Anchorage to Magadan, Siberia with the bikes. From Mongolia we entered Ulan Ude and spent about 3 weeks riding to some smaller cities and towns there. From Mongolia we entered northern China and rode to Beijing with a Chinese guide.
And then went north along the east coast and re-entered Russia near Vladivostok. After crossing to Sachalinsk Island we rode around there until reaching the port of Holmsk. From Holmsk by ship to the island of Hokkaido, Japan.. The bikes were shipped back to the United States from the port of Yokohama. Exploration, Photography, and avoiding office work and related responsibilities.
Border crossing between Russia and Mongolia. Riding terrain across Siberia and Mongolia. The end of the tour Book or publication: Use full knobby tires. Pack as light as possible. Earlier Experiences of big Motorcycle Tours: Helge Peterson, around the world. The story of Andys firm Aerostich: Andy started his Company Aerostich, a wear house with a huge catalogue for Motorcycle-Equipment in to make synthetic armored riding suited for riders who wanted to commute yet not have to change clothing.
It is a coverall type garment worn over street clothing for protection from crashing and bad weather when riding". My friend Dietmar got ill on the Karakorum Highway and I thought he will really die. Contact Dirks firm "Do it"! Huge petrol-tanks and e. You, the rider, can they besides the motorcycle when Dirk makes the total-check of your bike and you get personal explanations and become more fit for your travel. Dirk also takes care for the Tesch-BMW! His one-man-garage is called "Do it! Then she worked as a motorcycle-courier in London for twelve months and covered a distance of Then she started solo a very rare motorcycle-tour via ex-soviet union countries to the border of China.
She crossed China by train and public busses. The Chinese authorities allowed Heather to take her bike 10 km from the Vietnam boarder, and she then crossed by boarder after much hassles by both the Chinese and Vietnamese boarder guards and rode down to Hanoi. From London to Vietnam 15, approx. They rode across Russia to Mongolia. In Vietnam, became ill and was running low of funds. She put her bike in storage in Hanoi and flew back to Cairns, Qld Australia.
Heather plans to continue her world motorcycle journey in the future. Mobil Oil is sponsor. To explore the world and grow from the experience. Getting sick and feeling weak in China. Would like to complete Vietnam Asia leg back to Australia before publication. Pack your bike, put on your helmet, turn the key and ride down the driveway Earlier Experiences of big Motorcycle-Tours: Kirgistan mountain passes, living in yurts, horse riding.
Having to deal with the Chinese customs officials in Urumqui. I would be reinbursed the money once I had the bike stamped out of China, but would have to fly back to Urumqui to collect it. Since she is studying English and Journalism in Australia anf got her defree as a bachlor if journalism in may They want to vist me when they are on their "RTW" when they are They forgot that B. She is the first person I know who managed this route AND entered Vietnam in by her own motorcycle coming from China.
But Bernd and his friend Alfred took a train about 1. Normally you cannot do this in summer because of too may rivers and swamps along the Amur River. T o get another Guiness-record for being the first riding ther whole tour Atlantic - Pacifik by bike without using a train in the Amur-river-area.
Riding The Edge Riding The Ice He wrote one of the best compliments I ever got in my guest-book: In 8 months Maurits rode solo with a Honda XR Never driven motorbike before, Driving license From Nepal by plane to Japan. I never new where I was going to be during the night, did not take a tent with me, always slept at peoples home, did not bring any spare parts, as I did not know what could brake. Never the worst Publications: Revue Earlier experiences: Min Tesch in Asien, Kirgestan vor Nomadenzelten.
Im Hintergrund das Pamir-Gebirge. Die Reise bis dorthin war es wert, diesen Versuch unternommen zu haben: Left reparing the Enfield in New Delhi. Beside the road in Rajasthan. A solo trip around the entire coast of India on a Enfield Bullet cc. Everything between New Delhi The people and their constant help and teaching. A better understanding of myself and others. Watching my motorcycle be put on a small, rickety boat by three wiry, little Indian men, then floated across the Ganges to safety on the other side.
Losing my control, getting mad, and chasing a man down a dark alley. All the drivers in India. Motorcycle accident running into a boy with a bicycle. Is finished and looking for a home. This website will provide updated information on the progress of the book's publication. Hampi, Temple towns in Southern India e. Madurai , spending a week in the house of a Dalit family, indigenous mountain people in Orissa, Rath Yatra festival in Puri, Sikkim, remote areas in the North East. Getting beaten up by an Indian policeman, Dengue Fever The best of the tour: The worst of the tour: Without the Swiss Toni Sliz I do not know anybody, who has been with his own bike in Cambodioa before.
Nobody who has been for so long in Laos by bike before. Overland by bike from Thailand to Cambodscha Anghor Wat. Denmark - Germany - Eastern Europe??? Not to be allowed to enter Pakistan without Carnet de Passage. Steal of money in a Pakistan hotel. To be carried back trough Iran by lorry without Carnet. May be nothing will happen, I will find a quiet place just south of here, sit down, drink coffee and read some books".
Peter got the first price for the longest way coming all the way form the Pakistan border in time: The "Allrad-Becher" 4-wheel-drive can. Then I can speak about it, because I do not know anything about it. Germany - Tchec Rep. To be "on the road". To meet people allways if you are in case of emergency.
Flight over Vanuatu islands. He took a lot of my time to answer all his questions free of charge concerning to travel overland from Germany to Nepal in four weeks in december I told him that some others have done this before but I cannot recommend this because of cold and danger of accident because of too high speed: Germany - Nepal in three weeks He had no puncture with the motorbike on From Germany left He sleept in hotels where the friendly Turkish people aloud him to park his motorcycle inside - he reached Turkey bordertown Dogubayazit passing sometimes ice on the road after six days riding km each day - Iran border took some hours - then totally 2.
A total traafic chaos with cars, lorrys and animals. Sometimes he could only avoid an accident by riding in the next field of rice - Nepal is a paradise comparing to India with green subtropic forest in southen Tarai - Martin arrived in Kathmandu Martin relaxed 8 days in Kathmandou-Valley - back in Germany by plane.
The German Uwe is nearly living since three years in Mogolia and has covered more than He wanted to oganise a Motorcycle-tour in Mongolia in but did not succeed. In the tour will start. I asked him to add an article to my written recommendation "Mongolia-Motorcycle-Tours" which everybody who is interested in a Mongolia-Mc-Tour can ask for by sending DM 60,00 in advance.
The German Peter is on the road from Germany to India with two friends. Push down, brakes, feathers.. The in German born and in Canada living Werner 62 rode solo By air to Canada with bike. Broken driveshaft in China. A huge trip nobody had done before in this way solo or in a group. Michael is a redacteur of the German mc-magazine "Motorrad". Rainer has worked there before and works now at the outfitter Woick.
For both have been waiting at Torugartpass China a Chinese car with a guide, who really accompined them at each step. They even were not allowed to search for their own hotel or what they want to eat at night. They got permission only three days for transit China. There they sold there car and entered China with a visum by backpacking: When Bernd Tesch and his son Min Tesch have been in China for four days in we already heard that some rich Dutch guys entered China with their Motorcycles some weeks before with a Chinese guy and car who was waiting for them on the Chinese site.
They had to pay a lot of money for this Chinese guy from a travel agency. They wanted to travel through China to Pakistan. It is telling you all the stories how mc-travellers got into China since by themselves and the only ways you can ride in China with your own mc nowaday. I can send this by email. Costs DM 60,00 in advance. So far he had toured a lot in Europe and Morocco. He will solo start in Tony and Fredrik Andersson made Our complete bikes with gas and luggage were weighting kg. In 3 weeks they made The Burmesian Army did not let them in because of the problem in Bangkok even though we had the proper visas and papers for the bikes and also got hotel in Mandalay incl.
We had to get back to New Delhi for a plane to Bangkok - in Bangkok we got the bikes after 1 day of paper work - Phuket - Malaysia - Kambodja - Northern Thailand - here an attempt to get into Burma from Thai-territory with the bikes but then the Thai-army stopped us - by plane back to India Delhi and drive home to Norwegian. And the longest oneday route was 1. The Golden Triangle Rider: Graeml Austrian, born Tropical island with lots of palm trees and bananas, coconuts and papayas. Unspoiled coral reef and lonely sandy beaches. Scuba diving with dolphins, mantas and sharks, whale watching.
Excellent biking possible in mountainous terrain. Poor infrastructure after civil war poorest country in Asia. Tuberculosis spread amongst local population. Timor is the largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands located at the eastern tip of the Indonesian archipelago approx. It is a tropical island approx. Temperatures range from 28 to 34 C throughout the year.
The island is divided approx. Most roads throughout the Territory require four-wheel drive vehicles and are excellent to drive with Enduro-style motorcycles. There are about , inhabitants, , living in the capital Dili. Official currency is the US Dollar. Official languages are Portuguese and Tetum. English is understood mainly in Dili, in the rural areas communication is difficult. After the people of East Timor voted for independence on 30 August approx. Up to now East Timor has not recovered yet. Outside Dili accommodations are available only in Baucau, the second-largest town.
As tourism is non-existent yet there are no camping facilities available. On the other hand wild-camping is not prohibited. Since its declaration of independence on 20 May East Timor is considered the poorest country in Asia. Snorkeling on the coral reef, scuba diving with charted yacht equipment available , lonely sandy beaches and lots of nature.
Fri and Sat 2 discos operate in Dili only apart from numerous coffee-shops and Asian-style restaurants. Outside Dili there is pure nature, bush and millions of stars in the sky. Public hospital in Dili with some international doctors, medical centers in rural areas providing limited services.
Travel insurance including emergency evacuation service recommended. Malaria and Dengue Fever. Prophylaxes for short-term visitors recommended, otherwise common sense. Tuberculosis is spread amongst the local population. In general calm 8, peacekeepers and 1, UN Civilian Police still in country. Movements at night at the beach and remote areas recommended in groups only, common sense. No requirement for driving licenses.
No compulsory registration of vehicles although possible since April with a low standard technical check and of course NO mandatory helmet requirement. No workshops outside Dili. In Dili itself ill equipped road-side mechanics. Fuel available from Indonesian based company and Australian imported fuel for 45 US cents per liter. Useful information and TIPS for others: I am married to Josephine Kenyan since A group of Austrians rode overland with some 30 years old "Enfield India" bought in India. Thy made it with organisation Asia-BIke-Tours in 6 weeks and 9.
Karakorum Highway, Sumatra The worse: Traffic in Jakarta Useful tips for others: Ein- und Ausreise Indonesien?? Info von Dieter H: Dieses ist die 1. Wenn Sie gerne Berge erkunden, ist dies der richtige Weg. Die Arbeiten begannen und endeten Europe - India Nepal. Bike and me back to Germany by plane if i can afford. Hospitallity of the Iran people.. Sheap fuel prices in Iran.
Stay as long as possible in Iran. In days Bikes solo by ship from Bangkok to Tokio. We flew to Tokio. Wunderlust, new challenges, photography, visiting SOS childrens villages: Riding through Indonesia, Meeting people, Having fun. Just do it and take a pepper spray for omelettes Patrick and Lorenz finally made it back home. Alexander Conrad and Alex rode with Mila Gilmanova. Alexander Conrad German, born Start a new and different life. A better world then suggested in media. I got pretty sick in Iran. Get out and ride!!! Plan to ride from Italy to Italy by motorcycle.
We are preparing all the documents and this isn't easy: Fortunately we have found a good travel agent for China that can prepare all documents for our travel plates, licence, special permit ect. Rolf Mundorf German http: They managed to enter China legally in july with the visa-help of Perestroika , , Visitor of the Motorcycle-Meeting for World-Travellers.
We will freight the bikes back to the UK. The bikes are two 94 paralever BMW R80GS, with HPN tanks, touratech aluminium panniers, white power shocks, modified front forks, PD single seat and rack, leaky pushrod seals, PD bash plates, driveshafts that make you paranoid and so on.
This book can only be ordered from the author I think: Wir haben uns in Goa getroffen. Aber da muss man in Indien durch. Useful tips for others: Tja, Tips sind nicht so leicht zu geben. In Indien muss man mit allem rechnen, also offen sein, freundlich mit den Menschen umgehen und man wird auch nett behandelt. Wer Probleme mit Dreck und Armut hat, sollte nach Mallorca fliegen. Bonsels, Waldemar — Traveller, publisher and writer of popular novels and stories, Bonsels made his reputation with Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer , a charming account of a queen bee and the adventures that befall it.
A year before his death he republished, under the title Das vergessene Licht, an earlier pseudo-Christian novel. Borchardt, Rudolf — An author remembered for his essays and translations, Borchardt was one of a group of writers R. The neo-romantic aspects of his earlier poetry Jugendgedichte increasingly gave way to classical forms. Borchardt was an accomplished linguist and translated from Greek, English and Italian: Borchardt was a close associate of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Vermischte Gedichte appeared in The novel Vereinigung durch den Feind hindurch was published in Vienna: Borchardt, who was partly Jewish, was arrested by the Gestapo, but later released; he died in the Tyrol at the end of the war. He also wrote numerous poems, only a few of which were eventually published. Die traurigen Geranien made available further unpublished material. His first novel Der zweite Tag , in which the impressions received on a train journey are registered in minute detail, bare of symbol and metaphor, can be associated with the Cologne school of realism including Wellershoff, Herburger, Elsner.
The poems, eventually collected in Gedichte — , show the influence of the Americans W. Politics, reflection on the function of poetry and moments of satisfaction and hope contrasted with fear of the impersonal forces of the state are further topics in the later poems. In taking up a Third World theme, it marks a significant departure from what was in danger of becoming a new provincialism and can be compared with similar works by Uwe Timm and F. The play Rotter concerns the self-imposed conformity of an underprivileged figure determined to prove himself in both the Third Reich and the early years of reconstruction.
Liebe macht Tod is a variation of Romeo and Juliet. Braun, Felix — A fervent literary disciple of Hofmannsthal, Felix Braun was a minor writer associated with the Viennese cultural scene at the turn of the century his autobiography Das Licht der Welt. Geschichte eines Versuches, als Dichter zu leben gives a sympathetic and informative account of meetings with Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Wildgans, Ginzkey, Mell, Stefan Zweig, Werfel and others.
He travelled widely, living in Italy and also in exile in England. His verse dramas betray much sensitivity but little dramatic talent: Braun was also an accomplished anthologist: The collections Wir und nicht sie , Gedichte , extended and Gegen die symmetrische Welt are marked by mastery of numerous short forms and a critical dialogue with earlier German poets. The dialectic of past and present, of Utopian hope and reality is treated in manifold variations, culminating in the last volume in fragmentary forms which appear to reflect a fear of stagnation.
More recently he has widened this latter theme to embrace revolutionary change elsewhere and at different periods and developed more radical approaches to it: His continuing debt to his literary predecessors is evident in his other plays: Bodenloser Satz presents the decline of the GDR through an account of environmental pollution. Texte in zeitlicher Folge appeared in eight volumes between and Brecht, Bertolt — Brecht was one of a group of young dramatists who emerged during the early years of the Weimar Republic and whose works frequently awarded the Kleist prize created theatrical scandals by their fearless outspokenness and reluctance to conform to accepted standards.
Through collaboration with Feuchtwanger and others Brecht, with cunning and undeniable talent, kept abreast of the modern techniques of a man like Piscator. It was after the enormous success of this work, a work that the audience seemed bent on enjoying at all costs, that Brecht tended to the extremes of dogmatism which he felt were necessary to convey his social message: What makes Mann ist Mann , the Dreigroschenoper and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny — 9 such good entertainment is the plenitude of ebullient characters, rooted in a fantastic Victorian, Anglo-American or Anglo-Indian world never found in reality but culled from the legends of the roaring twenties, or the heyday of the British Raj; Brecht never ceased to admire the world of boxers, lumberjacks, colonial soldiers and gangsters, which he may, in part, have derived from the expressionist cult of vital, atavistic forces.
Brecht needed also the stimulus of collaboration, which stemmed from a sincere desire to discuss and learn rather than from paucity of invention, as the critic Alfred Kerr claimed, who sought constantly to detect plagiarism. Brecht wrote closely with Klabund, who would later give Brecht the idea for Der kaukasische Kreidekreis. After the burning of the Reichstag Brecht fled to Vienna; he attended the meeting at Sanary-sur-mer of exiled writers, and thence moved to Denmark, to the province of Svendborg, where he watched events in Germany most closely. Brecht continued to work relentlessly: A-Z 43 The view that Brecht, deprived of a theatre, turned his attention to formulating a Marxist aesthetic of drama, a theoretically determined system, is erroneous: His theoretical writings reflect the way in which he meditated upon his own work: The tone is light, frequently wryly humorous, often curious, but always allowing for movement and renewal; a rare intelligence is at work which questions, worries, retreats, adapts and restates.
Theatre, literature and politics, society and even landscape are discussed: The Messingkauf dialogues, a four-handed conversation piece, relate more directly to theatrical problems, and stress above all the need for lightness of touch, Spiel, and a kind of elegance in acting which contains sobriety within it. The rapier thrust is preferred to the sabre blow, the elliptical precision of Chinese art to Germanic ponderousness and an athletic form of acting to the pretentiously histrionic.
This was to be the play with which the Berliner Ensemble opened in ; it has remained in the repertoire ever since and has been staged by the leading theatres throughout the world. Every scene, and there are twelve of them, is supposed to stand as a self-contained unit indeed, in theory they should be virtually interchangeable , but a cumulative effect is undeniable, and there are moments that are conventionally dramatic, which enthral, rather than alienate, the audience.
Brecht did not approve of the reactions of the audience after the first performance: He had been forced, he A companion to twentieth-century german literature 44 claimed, to overstate the differences between the conventional theatre and his own in order that certain abuses be rectified: As early as Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny he had, in fact, stressed that an overschematic differentiation between dramatic and epic was unsuitable: In he had written a conventional play—admittedly not one of his best—on Aristotelian lines, Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar, which provided opportunity for splendid acting on the part of the heroine.
Brecht turned on the critics and admonished them to look at his plays as plays, without preconceived ideas or theories. Brecht utterly rejected the Christian idea of original sin: His initial concern was to show Galileo as a man determined to live, whose cunning recantation enables the truth to be heard despite the strictures of the Church.
The issues are intellectual, but the play provides magnificent theatre, especially in the scene of the dressing of the Pope, the transformation of man to institution as each layer of clothing is added. The Soviet purges sickened him, as did the American situation: There is undoubtedly a sense of isolation, but not of paralysis: The theme of goodness occupied him once again, but the basic theme concerns the rightness of giving the child or the disputed land to those best able to tend or cultivate it. The play is most successful in the portrayal of the judge Azdak, a figure compounded of the vitality and amoral zest of Baal, of Puntila and, to a lesser extent, of Galileo himself.
Brecht returned to Europe at the end of The setting up of his own Theater am Schiffbauerdamm brought little comfort: It is perhaps significant that Brecht wrote nothing of original merit for the theatre after his return to East Berlin; he adapted, produced and modified, turning his attention, amongst other things, to Waiting for Godot and Pineapple Poll. He withdrew again into poetry and wrote, in the Buckower Elegien, some of his finest. With economy, grace and sobriety he evoked a world of trees and water, silence and serenity, far from the turmoil of Berlin.
Before his premature death in he had suggested that his epitaph might contain the lines: The following editions of his work should be noted: A companion to twentieth-century german literature 46 Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter —75 Brinkmann, whose early death in a road accident on a visit to London put an end to a career which may or may not have been in the doldrums, began in association with the Cologne realists Wellershoff, Herburger, Elsner, etc. Never political, he combined crude vitalism, linguistic virtuosity and an obsession with the surface detail of everyday life; only the last of these features, however, was taken up and developed by others e.
While his poetry already seems dated and undisciplined, his final major prose work Rom. Blicke may prove to be a seminal work in its combination of verbal and photographic commentary, besides maintaining the strong German tradition of literature portraying the metropolis. Britting, Georg — Poet, playwright and writer of narrative prose, Britting started to write after the First World War he was badly wounded in He collaborated on many expressionist journals Die rote Erde, Der Sturmreiter, Der silberne Spiegel and edited his own, Die Sichel, with Josef Achmann, who contributed the graphic designs.
Britting greatly admired Georg Heym; he also wrote grotesque versions of biblical themes Hiob, Kain, Jor auf der Flucht, etc. During the Second World War Britting turned increasingly to nature poetry, leaving behind the excesses of expressionism and the parodistic elements of Hamlet.
Short stories also appeared: Lob des Weines, a collection of twenty poems, appeared in Britting turned to traditional themes and structures, although his imagery remained fresh and striking. Broch insisted upon an intellectualization of the novel, on working out, by sheer intellectual effort, the troubles of the world. Theoretical essays alternated with works of imagination: Both Broch and Musil embarked upon vast novels that would encompass the problems of the age, combining rationalism and mysticism.
The Schlafwander trilogy —2 , encyclopedic and polyhistorical novels, have as their concern the disintegration of values and the decay of European civilization in the period — The first, Pasenow oder die Romantik, has been compared with Fontane, but the secure ground of the nineteenth century has been left far behind: The second, Esch oder die Anarchie, portrays the insubstantiality of the existence of the small book-keeper Esch, who is able neither to escape from Europe nor to come to terms with it; the third, Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit, portrays violence and anarchic forces which destroy the narcissistic world of the heroine.
The realization of the helplessness of the word when faced by the unspeakable will be a concern of many writers in the twentieth century, especially in German-speaking countries. The fourth novel, Die Schuldlosen , treats twentieth-century themes and uses certain dates , and as points of reference: The novel is uncomfortably suspended between political allegory and romantic myth.
The character of Mutter Gisson with her Demeterlike qualities fails to convince, the symbolism being forced and obtrusive, but the description of mass psychology is masterful. The speculative study on A companion to twentieth-century german literature 48 Massenpsychologie stands comparison with the essay Masse und Macht by Elias Canetti as one of the most perceptive analyses of the relationship between the individual self and the corporate whole. Broch, of Jewish parentage, was arrested when the Nazis invaded Austria, but was released on the intervention of writers like James Joyce.
He settled in America and wrote his last novels there. The Gesammelte Schriften ten vols appeared between and reprinted ; the Kommentierte Werkausgabe 13—17 vols appeared from to His early story Tod den Toten! As a Jew, Brod became a Zionist in , and he became especially interested in the more conservative faith of his co-religionists from the eastern provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Brod emigrated to Tel Aviv in and died there in In that year his autobiography Streitbares Leben appeared, which contains enlightening references to Kafka and also to Franz Werfel, of whose conversion to Christianity see Das Lied von Bernadette Brod did not approve. He produced three volumes of war poetry, Aus meiner Kriegszeit.
Gedichte , Kamerad, als wir marschierten. Kriegsgedichte and Soldaten der Erde. A war novel, Bunker Geschichte einer Kameradschaft , was widely read it was translated into English as Pillbox Gesamtausgabe der Gedichte in Eine Auswahl der Gedichte appeared in Bronnen, Arnolt originally Bronner, — Dramatist and novelist, Bronnen was one of the most extreme of the young talented writers who made the opening years of the Weimar Republic a fascinating and often disturbing experience.
His play Vatermord written in , performed in Berlin in was the first of many scandals that surrounded his name; the portrayal of brutal violence and uninhibited sexuality outraged the audience. Die Geburt der Jugend is a chaotic description of anarchic youth; the older generation is annihilated by sexually demented adolescents. In his comedy Die Exzesse the erotic desires of the woman, Hildegarde, find satisfaction in contemplation of intercourse with a goat.
Katalaunische Schlacht looks back to the war as a time of frenzied and erotic ecstasy. Rheinische Rebellen is an overtly nationalist play; Ostpolzug , a monodrama, fuses ancient and modern in its portrayal of Alexander the Great. Bronnen worked for the film industry in the s, also the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft.
His relations with the Nazis were, however, strained. His autobiography Arnolt Bronnen gibt zu Protokoll appeared in ; Tage mit Brecht posthumously in Bruckner, Ferdinand pseudonym of Theodor Tagger, — Primarily a dramatist, Bruckner achieved fame in with his play Krankheit der Jugend, a crass and naturalistic portrayal of adolescent sexuality, much indebted to Freud. Bruckner used techniques made famous by Erwin Piscator; his greatest success was Elisabeth von England , where the stage is again split between the two realms, Catholic Madrid and Protestant London, with both antagonists praying to the same god for victory.
Bruckner also turned his attention, with less success, to classical themes Timon and Pyrrhus und Andromache perf. A very successful play was Die Rassen , one which exploits the generation conflict and also the tension between Jew and Aryan. Bruckner emigrated to America in and returned to Europe in , spending the last years of his life in Berlin. Dramatische Werke and Schauspiele nach historischen Studien were both published in An edition of Dramen appeared in Brust was helped by Kurt Wolff; he lived in isolation in Memel and moved to Cranz after the Lithuanian occupation.
Brust shares with many expressionists a predilection for crass and often shocking climaxes. Brust turned towards a portrayal of pseudoreligious experiences in a series of other plays Cordatus. He died in obscurity, isolation and poverty at the age of forty-three; the Nazis initially tolerated his writing, believing him to be an acceptable poet of East Prussian life, although later his work was condemned as degenerate. The Dramen — ed. Horst Denkler appeared in Since then he has written stories Ein schwarzer, abgrundtiefer See , extended and Babylon and novels which concentrate on human foibles and idiosyncrasies in domestic and professional contexts, although social and political pressures, implicitly criticized, are present in various forms.
Essays Kritiken Glossen Unpolitische Betrachtungen zu Literatur und Politik demonstrate individual interests Haiti, Alejo Carpentier and more general concerns of his generation ecology, post-history, apocalypse , the latter present also in Bericht aus dem Innern der Unruhe. Gorlebener Tagebuch , on demonstrations against nuclear power. Central to the rest of his work is his relationship to the American continent and in particular Haiti, which he visited for the first time in and where he has ancestral links.
In the reportages Aus der neuen Welt. An informative document on Burckhardt is the Festschrift which appeared on his seventieth birthday, Dauer im Wechsel Burger, Hermann —89 Burger studied in Zurich, wrote dissertations on Paul Celan and contemporary Swiss literature and taught for a while at the Federal Technical University in Zurich. His chief works, Schilten. Burger shares with the Austrian Thomas Bernhard and with other contemporary Swiss writers e. Meyer the theme of death as the ultimate threat to personal identity, which he treats with an even greater degree of linguistic virtuosity and reflective intensity.
He committed suicide in Brunsloben and Menzenmang volume I and volume II, chapters 1—7 of the planned tetralogy Brenner on the scion of a cigar manufacturing dynasty in search of his childhood appeared in and Der unsichtbare Held, a Nibelungen drama, appeared in the same year. A companion to twentieth-century german literature 54 Burte published poems in Alemannic dialect Madlee ; a further anthology appeared in Die Seele des Maien. Burte received much acclaim for his work, the Kleist prize for Wildfeber and other distinctions during the Third Reich.
The sinologist Peter Kien, obsessed by his own private library, and retreating ever further into a state of solipsism, is ultimately destroyed by fire, ancient symbol of transformation. The other characters, Pfaff, Theresa Krumbholz and Fischerle, are also utterly self-centred and convinced of their own importance. The idea for the novel came to Canetti in when he witnessed the burning of the Palace of Justice by a mob in Vienna.
Canetti moved to Paris in and to London in the following year. In he published Masse und Macht, a sociological, anthropological study of crowds and power: A collection of aphorisms made between and , Aufzeichnungen, appeared in Das Geheimnis der Uhr. Aufzeichnungen — appeared in In Canetti was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. A companion to twentieth-century german literature 56 Carossa, Hans — Son of a doctor, Hans Carossa studied medicine in Munich and Leipzig, then settled as a medical practitioner in Bavaria.
Verwandlungen einer Jugend is a less successful sequel. The novel Geheimnisse des reifen Lebens uses the diary form to explore human relationships. After the war Carossa attempted to explain his situation at that time in Ungleiche Welten Further autobiographical details of his life appeared in Aufzeichnungen aus Italien ; a scattering of short stories appeared in the s.
His poetry is unassuming and traditional: In his work Carossa eschews modernist experimentation; he appealed to the educated middle-class German reader with his cultivation of humanistic values derived from Goethe. Unlike his parents Celan escaped deportation when his home was occupied by the Nazis, but awareness of the Holocaust is at the centre of his work, his approach to the problems of language and communication in general long a preoccupation of writers from the linguistic melting-pot of Central Europe and the Balkans being linked to the impossibility of conveying the extreme physical and existential exposure of the persecuted.
These, together with translations of twentyone sonnets by Shakespeare and poems by Char, Supervielle, Michaux, Yessenin, Mandelstam, Block and others, were assembled in the provisional Gesammelte Werke in five volumes. Despite the increasing number of exegeses see the Celan-Jahrbuch: He was a man of mystical tendency whose experience of the Holocaust placed obstacles in the way to religious enlightenment; the distortion and reversal of normal syntactical relationships which are a marked feature of his work are related to this central paradox.
However, he remained attached to Jewish culture, as is evident especially in late poems set in Jerusalem. Gesammelte Werke five volumes appeared in His defence of members of the Baader-Meinhof group during the seventies influenced along with Kafka the fragmentary novel Die Herren des Morgengrauens He has also produced works which owe their origin to experiences in Italy Malavita. Mafia zwischen A companion to twentieth-century german literature 58 gestern und morgen and Briganten , a play on Mayakovsky Weltmeisterschaft im Klassenkampf and radio plays.
Csokor, Franz Theodor — Csokor is known primarily as an Austrian expressionist dramatist.
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He worked in theatres in St Petersburg before settling in his native Vienna: After the First World War Csokor turned to historical and social problems: After Csokor fled into eastern Europe; he was finally arrested in Yugoslavia, and interned. A selection of his works, Du bist gemeint, with a foreword by Erhard Buschbeck, appeared in The Zeuge einer Zeit. Ein paar Schaufeln Erde. Czechowski, Heinz — Czechowski witnessed the destruction of Dresden, which became the subject of several poems and autobiographical sketches. His melancholy free verse belongs to a tradition of nature poetry which originates in the eighteenth century and is imbued with an awareness of how his predecessors have responded to the same mainly Saxon landscapes and the effects on them of industrial development.
In all these one can detect a movement from a positive depiction of everyday life in the GDR and a straightforward autobiographical approach to the expression of a more complex subjectivity, sceptical of conventional views of progress. Nachtspur consists of poems and prose from to His vast epic Das Nordlicht, which took him twelve years to write, was published in The works that follow Das Nordlicht, particularly the collection of sketches Mit silberner Sichel , contain much talented writing: Dichtungen und Schriften appeared in , and Gedichte in In the following year his best-known work appeared, Ultra Violett.
He travelled extensively; a collection of Novellen again, greatly influenced by Jugendstil topoi appeared in Die acht Gesichter am Biwasee. Japanische Liebesgeschichten it was reprinted in and was extremely popular. In the same year his second novel, Raubmenschen, was published: Dauthendey responded sensitively to the Orient and popularized the culture of the Far East: Erlebnisse aus Java and Letzte Reise appeared posthumously.
His Gesammelte Werke six vols appeared in Degenhardt, Franz Josef — Degenhardt became known in the s as author, composer and performer to his own guitar accompaniment of protest songs, of which there have been numerous recordings and publications, incl. As a novelist he is associated with the realists published by the Autoren-Edition incl. Fuchs, Timm , who aim to raise political consciousness in a wide readership by showing how political forces impinge on the lives of ordinary people.
Dehmel, Richard — A student of the natural sciences, philosophy and economy, Dehmel took up writing in the Berlin of the s and reflected in his poetry the main preoccupations of the following two decades: Nietzscheanism, naturalism, impressionism, Jugendstil and a latent expressionism. His poetry is marked by a powerful sensuality, compassion and a keen intellect. Dehmel stresses in many poems the joy to be found in sexual love, together with hope for true emancipation in the future. Dehmel also wrote plays: His work is at its best in the portrayal of sensuous love and in its sincere, humanitarian beliefs.
Although exempt from enlistment due to injuries received at school after a fall from a horizontal bar , Dehmel joined the army in he was over 50 at the time: Dehmel was in close contact with the major writers of his day; he contributed to the leading literary journals. Gesammelte Werke ten vols appeared from to a three-volume selection in A posthumous autobiography, Mein Leben, was published in In appeared Dichtungen, Briefe, Dokumente.
His awareness of the forces at work in contemporary society and of how their interaction affects individual lives underlies all his novels. In Adenauerplatz a security guard employed to watch over a shopping and business complex in an anonymous German city is forced to confront the contradictions of his position as a refugee from Chile after the fall of Allende when he is drawn into collusion with a plot by friends to burgle an international wheeler-dealer with a stake in the political status quo in South America; having become aware of the ramifications of Third World exploitation he decides to abandon his job and return to Chile.
Mogadischu Fensterplatz is a fictional treatment from the perspective of an ordinary passenger of the hijack carried out by members of the Baader-Meinhof group in Somalia in and reflects a deepening concern with Third World topics evident also in the work of Born and Timm. Die Birnen von Ribbeck , a story consisting of a single sentence seventy pages long, describes the impact of the opening of the Wall on a farm in provincial GDR made famous by a ballad of Fontane.
This work, a collection of highly charged utterances, preaches an extreme form of militant Catholicism: The publication of Part One met with little interest, the exception being Karl Wolfskehl, who looked back on it with great pleasure during his New Zealand exile. Das Werk six volumes was published in Dinter, Artur — A student of the natural sciences, Dinter became a teacher, then turned to the theatre; he became increasingly anti-Semitic and reached notoriety with a trilogy of novels published between and The first of these was much acclaimed and widely read; in crudely sensational terms it describes the poisoning of the blood of a German woman, Johanna, through once having had intercourse with a Jew.
The child born to Johanna and her husband Hermann, both blond and Germanic, is dark and of Jewish appearance. Hermann kills the Jew and returns to find that his wife has killed the child and has committed suicide. A collection of Novellen appeared in , bearing the title of the first story, Die Ermordung einer Butterblume, an account of mental disturbance and, in fact, little more than a catalogue of neuroses. Wallenstein two vols , which appeared in , deals with the historical figures of the Thirty Years War but also hints at wider issues—the role of the individual during a time of massive upheaval.
Man and nature are locked in a gigantic struggle: Comparisons have been made with Manhattan Transfer and Ulysses Hans Henny Jahnn and others referred in their reviews to the Irish novelist: Biberkopf sinks from one stage of degradation to another: Babylonische Wandrung curses the sin of pride and portrays with grotesque humour the passage of the hero through the Babylon of Western civilization in a journey of selfexploration and expiation.
The work appears formless a fusion of mythology, history, modern events, statistical facts and popular songs , but an inexhaustible richness cannot be denied. In he became a convert to Roman Catholicism and after the war he returned to Paris, working in the cultural department of the French military government his son Wolfgang had been killed in the war, fighting as a French soldier. Questions are asked concerning the possibility of responsible action and the ultimate meaning of human existence.
Doderer, Heimito von — Born near Vienna, Doderer enlisted in the Austrian army as a young man and became a Russian prisoner of war in Doderer studied history at Vienna University, received his doctorate in and dedicated himself to creating an epic description of the city he knew so well. He had published a book of poems, Gassen und Landschaften, in , also a short novel, Die Bresche, in , but Doderer felt that he needed the breadth of the full-scale novel to do his subject Vienna justice.
Other novels, Ein Mord, den jeder begeht , Der Umweg and Die erleuchteten Fenster , are best regarded as sophisticated detective stories and thrillers, meant for a wide readership. The hero is one Melzer, former imperial officer, now senior official in the new republic. The years —11 and —5 are compared and contrasted. The book is felt to lack social awareness, despite the rich clutter A-Z 67 of its scenario. Doderer is concerned with a process which he calls Menschwerdung: A certain pretentiousness cannot be denied here, also much implausibility the worker Leonhard Kakabsa, for example, who experiences Latin as an almost mystical illumination.
After this epic re-creation of Vienna Doderer turned to shorter narrative forms: This novel is meant to be part of a cycle bearing the title Roman Nr. Der Grenzwald, a fragmentary part of this cycle, appeared posthumously in She made her final return to Germany in , since when she has lived in Heidelberg. She has also produced autobiographical writings, Von der Natur nicht vorgesehen , Aber die Hoffnung. Roman in Segmenten , revised version Her editorial work includes the anthology Nachkrieg und Unfrieden and Doppelinterpretationen , in which brief essays by readers and authors on poems by the latter are juxtaposed.
The A companion to twentieth-century german literature 68 poetological reflections present in the introductions and epilogues to these volumes are continued in the Frankfurt lectures Das Gedicht als Augenblick der Freiheit He also provided libretti for popular operettas: Dorst, Tankred — Dorst served in the army at the end of the Second World War, was a POW until , then studied German literature, art and drama in Munich, where he has continued to live.
His plays since the early s are the result of a close working partnership with his wife Ursula Ehler. He then collaborated with the director Peter Zadek on the television film Rotmord , based on this play, and on the revue Kleiner Mann— was nun? The film scenario Sand , radio play , which explores the motives for a political murder in , was followed by A-Z 69 Eiszeit , on an old man who can be identified as the unrepentant Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun; with his stubborn will to live he is contrasted with his would-be assassin who commits suicide.
The late s were occupied with the Merz cycle, an extensive chronicle in various media of a middle-class family between the late s and the present consisting of Auf dem Chimborazo , play, radio play and television film , Dorothea Merz , novel and television film , Klaras Mutter , story and television film , Die Villa , play , Mosch , film , Fragment einer Reise nach Stettin , radio play , Die Reise nach Stettin , scenario and Heinrich oder die Schmerzen der Phantasie , play and radio play , which together form a vivid panorama of German history.
Karlos first performed is a version of the material made famous by Schiller in Don Carlos. Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben presents a woman between two constrasting men, Herr Paul , first performed a conflict between progress and stasis with surreal effects, as a young entrepreneur attempts to dislodge an old couple Paul and his sister from his new business premises. Wie Dilldapp nach dem Riesen ging is another play. A Werkausgabe has been in progress since He returned to Vienna in and again took up legal practice.
His prose works include the autobiographical Z. Drach can thus be associated with Lind, Hilsenrath and Tabori as an advocate of black humour in order to expose persecution in general and that of the Jews in particular. Late works are Ja und Nein: Oktoberlicht portrays a day in the life of a middle-aged woman who visits her scattered family after a stay in hospital; in Wer verteidigt Katrin Lambert? Eingeschlossen , in which Jesus and Prometheus confront one another as a social worker and an atomic physicist who have become the inmates of a mental hospital, represents a significant departure from the naturalism of her previous work.
For A-Z 71 many years he, together with Frisch, represented contemporary drama in German to the rest of the world. Early influences consisted of the theology absorbed at home—he was, especially in his early years, exercised by theological problems in what he recognized as a post-religious age and therefore approaches existentialism—and the plays of Thornton Wilder and Brecht. In the course of his career his work was marked by consistency of theme and a formal development towards ever greater emphasis on the grotesque, prompted by his early realization that the anonymity of the forces which control human fate nowadays cannot be reconciled with the traditional conception of tragedy: In the context of the breakdown of ideological confrontation in the late s, the play appears unwittingly prophetic.
His other writings include two volumes of Theaterschriften und Reden , , Der Mitmacher. A Werkausgabe in thirty volumes appeared in , Gesammelte Werke eight volumes in and Das dramatische Werk seventeen volumes in A Werkausgabe in seven volumes appeared in E Edschmid, Kasimir pseudonym of Eduard Schmid, — Edschmid studied Romance languages in Munich, Geneva, Paris and Strasbourg; he rapidly associated himself with the young writers of expressionism and became a tireless propagator and theoretician of that movement.
In a famous lecture 13 December he described the expressionists thus: Er sieht nicht, er schaut. Er schildert nicht, er erlebt. Er gibt nicht wieder, er gestaltet. Er nimmt nicht, er sucht. Nun gibt es nicht mehr die Kette der Tatsachen: Nun gibt es die Vision davon. In later life he wrote on expressionism again Lebendiger Expressionismus ; his diary Tagebuch —60 also contains reminiscences.
Ehrenstein, Albert — Born in Vienna, son of Hungarian Jewish parents, Ehrenstein was discovered by Karl Kraus, who published his poems and grotesque prose sketches in Die kackel. Ehrenstein is known, however, primarily as a lyric poet; Der Mensch schreit is a collection of expressionist verse, pacifist, dynamic and urgent in tone: Ehrenstein went to Switzerland during the First World War; he led a restless life afterwards, travelling through Europe and Asia in an attempt to find and cherish the finest manifestations of human civilization.
In the s other collections of poetry appeared: Ehrenstein fled to New York, where he died in a hospital for the poor in Gedichte und Prosa ed. Eich also achieved prominence in the s as the principal contributor, along with Ilse Aichinger, whom he married in , Ingeborg Bachmann and Wolfgang Weyrauch, to the renaissance of radio drama, composing some fifteen plays within the decade. In his treatise Negerplastik appeared, containing illustrations of African masks and statues. Einstein pleaded for a new three-dimensionality, finding in African carvings a sense of spatial structure similar to that created by cubism.
Jahrhunderts sought to combine the assessment of primitivism with social awareness. Einstein identified with the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War and fought with them; he returned to France, but was interned when the German armies invaded. Unable to return to Spain because of his previous involvement he committed suicide at Gave de Pau. A companion to twentieth-century german literature 76 Eisenreich, Herbert —86 Eisenreich lived in Vienna and Upper Austria, except for a period of war service, four years as a writer for the newspaper Die Zeit and the radio in the Federal Republic and a stay in France.
These and his novels show him to have been the last representative of a tradition of Austrian social fiction which reached its zenith in the work of Joseph Roth and Heimito von Doderer. Die abgelegte Zeit is the surviving fragment of a novel which originally had the title Sieger und Besiegte and presents from the standpoint of the efforts of a number of characters to adapt to the situation after the Second World War in the spirit advocated by a resigned and conciliatory Austrian general in the theory of retreat he devises in the last weeks of the war.
Elsner, Gisela —92 Elsner achieved fame and notoriety at a stroke with the award of the Formentor Prize for her first novel Die Riesenzwerge The gruesome, grotesque effects conveyed here by mainly concentrating on the meal rituals of the petty bourgeois family can be related to the distanced distortions evident in the work of Grass, Jakov Lind and the early Peter Weiss rather than to the Cologne realists Wellershoff, Herburger, Born with whom she was initially associated.
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They are less manifest in her later novels, but she remained primarily a satirist of contemporary social and domestic mores in the Federal Republic, viewed from the committed standpoint of a member of the West German Communist Party. In Der Nachwuchs the narrator is a repulsive child treated as a pet by its parents and forced to make a late discovery of the world beyond the confines of the stuffy family house; narrator, family and neighbours appear, as in Die Riesenzwerge, in the same jaundiced light.
In the following novels the satire becomes more psychologically penetrating and socially specific: Das Windei covers forty years in the lives of a couple determined to maintain an affluence they have been brought up to take for granted by means of a shady construction business which ends in bankruptcy. Ende, Michael —95 Ende is the most prominent recent author of stories which aim to appeal to children and adults. His international success is based on Momo and Die unendliche Geschichte , both of which have been filmed.
In the second the framework narrative set in the real world and the core narrative set in the realm of fantasy are indicated and separated by red and green scripts until after the passing of a critical point which reverses the debilitation of fantasy which had threatened the central child figure.
Engelke, Gerrit — From a working-class background, Engelke, apprenticed to a house-painter, turned early to poetry and in approached Dehmel for encouragement: With Kneip Engelke became quickly befriended; after enlistment in the outbreak of the war found him writing his novel Don Juan in Denmark Engelke grew closer to Lersch.
An enthusiastic proclamation of a higher humanity pulsates throughout much of his work. A selection of his poems appeared in a volume entitled Schulter an Schulter Engelke was killed near Cambrai on 13 October ; he is buried close to the spot where Wilfrid Owen was to die two weeks later. Rhythmus des neuen Europa appeared in reprinted Engelmann, Bernd — After service at the front Engelmann was confined to Dachau and other camps until He offered an alternative view of German history in the Deutsches Antigeschichtsbuch Wir Untertanen , covering the period from the Middle Ages to , Einig gegen Recht und Freiheit on the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich and Trotz alledem on German radicals during the last two hundred years.
He has lived as a free-lance writer or as a lecturer in Norway which inspired some bleak nature poems , Rome and the USA. Enzensberger is a polemicist schooled in the dialectic of Hegel, Marx and Adorno, to the last of whom he owes insights developed in the essays collected in Einzelheiten two volumes and , which rigorously analyse the West German media. His journalism has been collected in the volumes Politik und Verbrechen , Politische Kolportagen , Deutschland, Deutschland unter anderem , Palaver , Politische Brosamen , the seven travel reports Ach Europa!
The collections of poems Zukunftsmusik and Kiosk continue the process of growing scepticism and distance from earlier certainties, spiced with metaphysical wit. Diderots Schatten assembles all the writings on the French sage who has long been admired by Enzensberger. Enzensberger has been a key figure in the intellectual life of the Federal Republic from its foundation and his influence far transcends the reputation he has gained from his contribution to any single genre, even poetry. Occasionally derided as a chameleon figure he has demonstrated by his polemical talent, his wit, his cosmopolitanism, his versatility in several media and his ability to take a broad view of social and political developments and to assess their implications in a pragmatic spirit unusual in the German left, that, as in the days of Heinrich Heine, there is a place for positive subversion.
A visit to Italy turned his attention to questions of artistry rather than politics: As Dramaturg in Weimar —14 Ernst wrote a series of historical plays including Demetrios , Canossa , Brunhild and Ninon de Lenclos After the patriotic tone in his writing became more pronounced, and his conservative stance more extreme; the basic human problems, Ernst believed, were revealed more clearly in rural, even feudal, society than amongst the urban proletariat. His literary reputation is founded on his prose rather than his dramas: The hero of the first, one Hans Werther, rejects social and political pre-occupations and finds fulfilment in marriage and agriculture.
Most well-known are the collections of Novellen: His essays including Der Weg zur Form advocate restraint and order in writing and a hierarchical ideal in society. The attempt to rescue the verse-epic Das Kaiserbuch —8 , and Der Heiland was largely unsuccessful. His Gesammelte Werke now largely unread appeared between and in twenty-one volumes. The second novel, Alraune. Die Geschichte eines lebenden Wesens , was immensely popular a girl is born from the seed of an ejaculating victim of the hangman implanted in a certain Alma Raune in a nearby hospital: Ewers considered himself the herald of a fantastic Satanist movement that looked back to Poe and de Sade: Der Fundvogel is a sensational account of an enforced sex change.
Ewers was appointed to the Dichter-Akademie, but the Nazis, finding his earlier writings incompatible with visions of Nordic health, prohibited further writing and pronounced Ewers degenerate. His work is primarily of interest in the link that it provides between decadence, Satanism and National Socialism. Gesammelte Werke eight vols appeared in Seltsame Geschichten were published in Fallada became instantly famous with Kleiner Mann, was nun?
The protagonist Pinneberg attempts to defend his private happiness between the middle classes on the one hand and the proletariat on the other, dreading redundancy and the threat of impoverishment: Fallada, an alcoholic, wrote at a frantic pace to provide himself with funds; during the Third Reich he turned to idyllic romances and folksy legends. Damals bei uns daheim and Heute bei uns zu Hause are little more than autobiographies.
The Russians elected Fallada as mayor of Feldberg in Mecklenburg two years before his death. Fallada is a powerful story-teller who succeeds best when describing the narrow, sentimental world of the petite bourgeoisie: Fels, Ludwig — Of working-class origin, Fels has more successfully than any other contemporary social realist, with the possible exception of Kroetz, encapsulated in his poetry and prose the sadness, frustration, anger and disorientation of the under-class in the urban environment. Fels relies on experience and an unidealistic identification with his characters.
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Bleeding Heart is a novel on the ego-trip of a desperately jealous man set in Tangier. Sturmwanderung and Die Hochzeit von Sarajewo are plays, the latter set in the Bosnian civil war. Feuchtwanger, Lion — Dramatic critic, playwright and novelist, Feuchtwanger made his reputation in the s with a series of historical novels. He helped Bertolt Brecht with Trommeln in der Nacht originally called Spartakus and collaborated with him on Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England; Brecht in turn helped him to revise his Warren Hastings, Gouverneur von Indien written , published and, some twenty years later, wrote with him Die Gesichte der Simone Machard.
A Jew himself, Feuchtwanger described as early as in Die Geschwister Oppenheim the sufferings and tribulations of his fellow Jews in Germany. He fled to France and also visited the Soviet Union; he became co-editor with Brecht and Willi Bredel of the anti-fascist literary review Das Wort, published in Moscow. His plays, mostly Old Testament and historical dramas, have not proved successful, apart from those written in collaboration with Brecht. Together with others, Feuchtwanger founded the Aurora publishing house in New York at the end of the war to bring out works in German for the reviving German market.
In he was awarded the Nationalpreis der DDR. His Gesammelte Werke appeared from —48; the Gesammelte Werke twenty vols from on, with a sixteen-volume edition appearing in Fichte, Hubert —86 The illegitimate son of a Jewish father, Fichte spent part of his childhood in a Catholic orphanage, an experience which formed the basis of his first novel Das Waisenhaus He then trained as an actor, but also worked on the land in North Germany and Provence before becoming a professional writer in Hamburg.
Here he remained until his death, except for extensive journeys in South America and the Caribbean in connection A-Z 85 with his later anthropological works. Nossack, Der Untergang and references to the ritual practices of AfroAmerican religions. These form the subject of the following works: Xango accompanied by a photographic volume with the same title , dealing with Bahia, Haiti and Trinidad, and Petersilie , on Santo Domingo, Venezuela, Miami and Grenada, which develop the preoccupation with abnormal sexual practices and psychopathology reflected in his earlier work. What was completed of the planned nineteen parts of the cycle of novels Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit appeared between and Der kleine Hauptbahnhof oder Lob des Strichs, 3.
Glossen set in Berlin this volume is not to be published until , 4. Glossen set in Rome, Greece, Egypt, Morocco , 6. Der Platz der Gehenkten set in Morocco , 7. Roman der Ethnologie set in Brazil , unnumbered volumes: Forschungsbericht set in Belize , Psyche. In addition there are volumes of Paralipomena: These are assembled in a sixteen-volume cassette. Flake turned to traditional writing after the war and sought to promote understanding between France and Germany: In the s Flake embarked upon a Badische Chronik; he also wrote essays on French literary figures, his best being on the Marquis de Sade , whose preface attempts to explain that it is necessary to describe the perverse in order fully to appreciate the norm.
An autobiography appeared in Es wird Abend. The Werke five vols appeared from to In she met Bertolt Brecht, who had the most far-reaching influence upon her work. More sober is Pioniere in Ingolstadt , a hard-boiled portrayal of the effect on the young girls of the town of the arrival of a troop of soldiers. Avantgarde is a thinly-veiled portrayal of Brecht. Her play on Charles I, Karl Stuart, was first published in The Gesammelte Werke three vols appeared in , a four-volume edition in Flex had also A-Z 87 published two volumes of poems before the war and a historical tragedy in verse, Klaus Bismarck , dealing with an ancestor of the Prussian statesman Flex had been a private tutor to the Bismarck family.
This was reprinted in Riga as late as May Gesammelte Werke two vols appeared in He was famous for short stories concerning the lives of North German fishermen his father having been one: Schullengrieper und Tungenknieper , Fahrersleute and Nordsee He reached a wide readership with his novel Seefahrt ist not! Much of his writing is in Plattdeutsch, particularly the Hamborger Janmooten His plays, Cilli Cohrs and Doggerbank posthumously, , are less successful.
Fock also published a collection of Plattdeutsche Kriegsgedichte —15 , many of them humorous: Das schnellste Schiff der Flotte.