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 miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.

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 ...

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.

Have you always wanted to learn how to speak German but simply didn’t have the time?Well if so, then, look no further. You can hold in your hands one of the most advanced and revolutionary method that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language. In creating this time-saving program, master linguist Yatir Nitzany spent years examining the twenty-seven most common languages in the world and distilling from them the three hundred and fifty words that ar...

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 ...

Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English–German scholar's edition.Presents scholar's edition of important material from 1933, Wittgenstein's first efforts to set out his new thoughts after the publication of the Tractatus Logico PhilosophicusIncludes indications to help the reader identify Wittgenstein's numerous correction...

19 Regeln zum GluecklichseinAlle Menschen haben eines gemeinsam:Sie tun alles, um gluecklich zu sein, aber nur 1% folgen den Gluecksregeln.19 Regeln zum gluecklich sein zeigen Ihnen worauf es wirklich ankommt, wenn Sie dauerhaft gluecklich sein wollen.

"Not a poet, but the embodiment of poetry."Maria TsvetaevaRainer Maria Rilke's work spans the divide between the decadence of early 20th-century Europe and the modernist revolution that followed the First World War – always struggling to develop, to seek and reach beyond itself.This selection brings together poems from throughout Rilke's career, placing poems of similar themes close to one another, making bed-fellows of poems rarely seen together, and catching Rilke's...

Author Wilhelm Busch (18321908) was a prominent German caricaturist, painter, sculptor and poet. His satirical picture stories with rhymed texts earned him the honorary epithet of Grandfather of Comics. One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz (1865), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller. Max and Moritz, as well as many of Buschs other picture stories, are regarded as one of the primary precursors to the modern comic str...

Basic German For Beginners. Basic German for Travel in Germany, Everyday words and useful phrases, words for Greetings, Shopping, eating out, Directions and lots more. English to German.