Grahame Davies

Tom Cheesman

Sylvie Hoffmann

Some of the best poems and stories from three previous anthologies published by Hafan Books, plus texts about refugees in Wales over the centuries.

Festival of the wolf

German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the “Heidegger Affair” to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others. GDR songwriters’ cat-and-mouse games with the Stasi; feminist debates on pornography, around works by Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek; controversies over anti-Semitism, around Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser / The Reader and Martin Walser’s lampooning of the Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Peter Handke’s pro-Serbian travelogue; the disputed editing of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Nachlaß; vexed relations between dramatists and directors; (ab)uses of privacy law to ‘censor’ contemporary fiction: these are among the cases of ‘text crimes’ discussed. Not all involve codified law, but all test relations between state power, civil society, media industries and artistic license.

Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s

German Text Crimes

A broad view of the impact of Turkish German writers' "literature of settlement" on the German literary scene and on German society.

Cosmopolite Fictions

Novels of Turkish German Settlement

This book introduces anglophone readers to the ballad picture show, a cultural institution which anticipated both the cinema and the tabloid press.

Tom Cheesman

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