The Silences of Hammerstein (The German List) - Hardcover
"The Silences of Hammerstein", the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and his wife and children. A member of an old military family, a brilliant staff officer, and the last commander of the German army before Hitler seized power, Hammerstein, who died in 1943 before Hitler's defeat, was nevertheless an idiosyncratic character. Too old to be a resister, he retained an independence of mind that was shared by his children: three of his daughters joined the Communist Party, and two of his sons risked their lives in the July 1944 plot against Hitler and were subsequently on the run until the end of the war. Hammerstein never criticized his children for their activities, and he maintained contacts with the Communists himself and foresaw the disastrous end of Hitler's dictatorship. In "The Silences of Hammerstein", Hans Magnus Enzensberger offers a brilliant and unorthodox account of the military milieu whose acquiescence to Nazism consolidated Hitler's power - and of the heroic few who refused to share in the spoils.
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"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger''s The Silences of Hammerstein a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down." -- Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian"
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger's The Silences of Hammerstein a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down." -- Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian"
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger''s "The Silences of Hammerstein" a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down."--Eric Hobsbawm, "Guardian" --Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian "
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger's "The Silences of Hammerstein" a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down."--Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian "
"Hans Magnus Enzensberger is one of Germany's leading public intellectuals. He belongs to the same generation as Gunter Grass and Jurgen Habermas, although he has been less bien pensant, less predictable, than either. His early poetry, lyric verse with a strong political content, won him the Georg Buchner Prize and he is now widely regarded as Germany's foremost living poet. Enzensberger is the most important postwar writer you have never read."--David Blackbourn "London Review of Books "
"It is an astonishing story of betrayal and human decency, about the possibilities of resistance of the most various kinds. . . . A book without heroes but with heroic moments and small gestures of resistance. By an author who doesn't know the truth but in his determined search for the truth has written an unbelievably thrilling book."--Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagsz "on the German Edition "
"[Enzensberger is] one of the holy trinity of German postwar literature (alongside Grass and Walser)."--Philip Oltermann "Guardian "
""The Silences of Hammerstein" is a book only a poet could have written. Form is just as important as content here. Enzensberger moves forward and backward in time, describes events out of context, and returns again and again to the gaps in the historical record. What emerges is a brilliant and horrifying representation of chaos." "New Republic ""The Book" blog--Aaron Their "New Republic "The Book" blog ""
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger's The Silences of Hammerstein a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down."--Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian "
"So you thought there was nothing revealing left to say about the collapse of the Weimar Republic? Think again. One of Germany's most revered poets and literary polymaths has produced a book, part history, part novel, that sheds new light on an extraordinary time through the eyes of an extraordinary family. . . . But Hammerstein - and especially his older daughters, Marie-Therese, Marie-Louise and Helga - are haunting figures. They tell us what it was like to endure the Berlin of the 1930s. And, in their amazements, they help us understand."--Peter Preston "Observer "
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"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger's The Silences of Hammerstein a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down." -- Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian"
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger''s "The Silences of Hammerstein" a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down."--Eric Hobsbawm, "Guardian" --Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian "
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger's "The Silences of Hammerstein" a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down."--Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian "
"Hans Magnus Enzensberger is one of Germany's leading public intellectuals. He belongs to the same generation as Gunter Grass and Jurgen Habermas, although he has been less bien pensant, less predictable, than either. His early poetry, lyric verse with a strong political content, won him the Georg Buchner Prize and he is now widely regarded as Germany's foremost living poet. Enzensberger is the most important postwar writer you have never read."--David Blackbourn "London Review of Books "
"It is an astonishing story of betrayal and human decency, about the possibilities of resistance of the most various kinds. . . . A book without heroes but with heroic moments and small gestures of resistance. By an author who doesn't know the truth but in his determined search for the truth has written an unbelievably thrilling book."--Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagsz "on the German Edition "
"[Enzensberger is] one of the holy trinity of German postwar literature (alongside Grass and Walser)."--Philip Oltermann "Guardian "
""The Silences of Hammerstein" is a book only a poet could have written. Form is just as important as content here. Enzensberger moves forward and backward in time, describes events out of context, and returns again and again to the gaps in the historical record. What emerges is a brilliant and horrifying representation of chaos." "New Republic ""The Book" blog--Aaron Their "New Republic "The Book" blog ""
"I found Hans Magnus Enzensberger's The Silences of Hammerstein a virtuoso combination of research, reportage and imagination, as good an introduction as any to the Weimar Republic, impossible to put down."--Eric Hobsbawm "The Guardian "
"So you thought there was nothing revealing left to say about the collapse of the Weimar Republic? Think again. One of Germany's most revered poets and literary polymaths has produced a book, part history, part novel, that sheds new light on an extraordinary time through the eyes of an extraordinary family. . . . But Hammerstein - and especially his older daughters, Marie-Therese, Marie-Louise and Helga - are haunting figures. They tell us what it was like to endure the Berlin of the 1930s. And, in their amazements, they help us understand."--Peter Preston "Observer "
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, often considered Germany's most important living poet, is also the editor of the book series Die Andere Bibliothek and the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik. His books include Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems and Civil Wars: From L. A. to Bosnia. Martin Chalmers has translated works by Hubert Fichte, Ernst Weiss, Herta Mueller, Alexander Kluge, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, and Erich Hackl.
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- PublisherSeagull Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1906497222
- ISBN 13 9781906497224
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages402
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