Reportable Portraits is not merely a performance about something or in any specific form. More than any topic it follows a rhizomatic net of resonances and traces, its agglomerations and loose endings. It's a piece that addresses the gaze into the inside; a piece that trusts in the performers. Towards an inefficiency that has no need to alienate anything. The link lies in the conceptual and its interest in the small things. It places an open space before any result, it drives the individua...

This is the first episode of the popular Baumgartner & Momsen mystery series for German learners.In an abandoned house at the outskirts of a small town, an unidentified body has been found. Can you help Kommissar Harald Baumgartner and his colleague Katharina Momsen solve this case and improve your vocabulary along the way?----Dies ist die erste Episode der beliebten Baumgartner & Momsen Krimi-Serie für Deutschlerner und DaF-Lerner.In einem verlassenen Haus ...

Practice the art of conversation in German!Want to strike up a conversation with a native German speaker but are nervous that you're not ready? Practice Makes Perfect: German Conversation helps you overcome that obstacle, and—before you know it--you'll be speaking comfortably in your new language.Inside you will find realistic conversational situations, from meeting people to talking about sports to discussing current events to just having fun. With these engagin...

The companion to our Languages Fast and Easy ~ German ebook, this Phrasebook provides you with a collection of the most common phrases as well as specialist phrases for when you are at the hotel/ restaurant, travelling and out and about.

Learn German fast: schnell und einfach Deutsch lernen.As you may already know, German is not an easy-to-learn language. The best way to try to master German is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version above every German Redewendung. This will help you catch its full meaning in no time.Learn 250 Ge...

An easy-to-use phrasebook, vocabulary and dictionary reference for anyone interested in learning German or just getting down the basics in a wide array of situations: Problems, Numbers, Emergencies, Time, Days, Months, Color, Getting Around, Eating, Drinking, Shopping, Accommodation, and even more. Perfect for beginners. Ideal for travelers.

This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early experiment in docufiction, Büchner’s textual montage draws on ...

Das Urteil by Franz Kafka.

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From out of the wind, which was blowing with great force, Rilke seemed to...

This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' POETRY LONDON: 'substantial, powerful and necessary work' TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: 'masterful transformations of difficult German syntax into a natural and contemporary English'...

Andrei Bely was one of the most prolific poets, novelists, and theoreticians among the Russian Symbolists. Engaged throughout his life with the essence of language, his thoughts and findings emerge repeatedly in his essays and novels. None of his writings on the subject, however, are as remarkable and multi-faceted as this Poem about Sound. Glossolalia is a complex examination of philology, philosophy, esoterica, and poetry, all in search of the relationship between sound and sense. It reverb...

Classic Schiller drama about the Thirty Years' War, in the original German. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely ...