Deutsche Literaturgeschichte in einer Stunde

A poet takes on literary history, and nothing is safe. Klabund delivers a whip-smart, deeply personal tour through German literature that refuses to bore. He attacks the "factory producers of classic literature" who peddle Schiller and Goethe like furniture for newlyweds, while championing writers the canon has forgotten. From the Nibelungen and Walter von der Vogelweide through the Baroque struggles of Grimmelshausen and Gryphius, past the Weimar giants, into the tangled forests of Romanticism with Arnim and Brentano, and out the other side into the haunted modernism of Trakl and Morgenstern, Klabund argues passionately for his favorites. This is not neutral scholarship. It is a writer making the case for what matters, with wit, provocation, and an opinion about everything. One hour with Klabund will teach you more about why literature endures than semesters of dusty handbooks.