As I still haven't finished the year journal, here is a symbolic version of my
moods - in books. I took this picture before Christmas and it doesn't show
all books, but as my memory is starting to weaken at the age of 25, please
forgive me. The order is random and doesn't mean anything.
Photo:
Carolin Weinkopf
Wolfgang Borchert: "Draußen vor der Tür"
♥♥♥♥♥ (a classic)
Miljenko Jergović: "Das Walnusshaus"
♥♥♥♥♥ (haven't finished it yet)
John Berger & Jean Mohr: "Eine andere Art zu erzählen"
♥♥♥♥♥ (a great
photo-text-book. Worth a look!)
Ryszard Kapuściński: "Der Andere"
♥♥♥♥♥ (a little scientific, but great
and especially true)
Hermann Hesse: "Klein & Wagner"
♥♥♥♥♥ (a Hesse, you know)
Milan Kundera: "Der Vorhang"
♥♥♥♥♥ (I was disappointed, too much
personal vain)
Susan Sontag: "Über Fotografie"
♥♥♥♥♥ (I keep on reading these essays,
though I'm not exactly a fan of artsy theories)
Milan Kundera: "Das Leben ist anderswo"
♥♥♥♥♥ (my all time favourite
Kundera)
Katharina Hagena: "Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen"
♥♥♥♥♥ (Easy
reading for a plane- or trainride in the winter.)
Irene Dische: "Großmama packt aus"
♥♥♥♥♥ (hilarious)
Susan Sontag: "Der Wohltäter"
♥♥♥♥♥ (when reading this at the Spanish
beach I realized I had read it before... I still liked it a lot.)
Marianne Gilbert: "Das gab's nur einmal"
♥♥♥♥♥ (it fits my sceme,
but it's not a masterpiece)
John von Düffel: "Vom Wasser"
♥♥♥♥♥ (nice)
Angelika Schrobsdorff: "Die Reise nach Sofia"
♥♥♥♥♥ (not as great as
her other books)
Giovanni di Lorenzo: "Auf eine Zigarette mit Helmut Schmidt"
♥♥♥♥♥
(I usually don't read books like this, but I bought this at the train station
due to the lack of other interesting books and read it in one flow - great
short-while reading)
Harry Thürk: "Sommer der toten Träume"
♥♥♥♥♥ (not written too well,
but I bought this for one reason: There is a character named Weinkopf
in this book coming from the same town in Silesia as my grandfather!)
Hermann Hesse: "Unterm Rad"
♥♥♥♥♥ (the best Hesse after Steppen-
wolf)
I just took another picture of some I forgot (or got for or after Christmas):
Photo:
Carolin Weinkopf
Kurt Tucholsky: "Rheinsberg"
♥♥♥♥♥ (I flew away with this little story - a
must read for only an hour or so)
Irene Dische: "Der Doktor braucht ein Heim"
♥♥♥♥♥ (50 lovely pages)
Max Goldt: "Vom Zauber des seitlich dran Vorbeigehens"
♥♥♥♥♥ (no
idea why I bought this - I hate pop literature)
Trescher Verlag: "Makedonien"
♥♥♥♥♥ (not a great one but the only
travel guide in German for Macedonia. Reading it I decided that I have
to do my own some day...)
Kurt Tucholsky: "Berlin-Paris"
♥♥♥♥♥ (found this on ebay for a euro, a
great book to carry around and read little lovely stories while waiting for
the oh so reliable Berlin s-bahn...)
Albert Camus: "Der Fremde"
♥♥♥♥♥ (I've read this many times and this is
actually the only book I ever read and kind of understood in French since
highschool...)
Bertholt Brecht: "Der Jasager und der Neinsager"
♥♥♥♥♥ (Very inspiring
and the perfect reading for me I guess...)
Fjodor Dostojewski: "Aus dem Dunkel der Großstadt"
♥♥♥♥♥ (just really
dark and great)
"Deutsche Dörfer neu entdeckt"
♥♥♥♥♥ (Nic gave me this for Christmas
to prepare my photo-report on Germany - love)
Not on these pictures because I borrowed them or don't know where I put
them...:
Angelika Schrobsdorff: "Du bist nicht so wie andere Mütter"
♥♥♥♥♥ (my
all time favourite book in 2009)
Jonathan Safran Foer: "Alles ist erleuchtet"
♥♥♥♥♥ (loved it, whereas I
HATED the movie afterwards)
Thommie Bayer: "Eine kurze Geschichte vom Glück"
♥♥♥♥♥ (fast read,
but forgot about it right away - not a good sign)
Ryszard Kapuściński: "Die Welt im Notizbuch"
♥♥♥♥♥ (speaks from my
soul in many parts, in others not at all)
If any one has read or at least knows some (obviously...) of these books,
you might realize that I'm in love with family stories, especially when they're
Jewish. There's no specific reason, I just love them. If you have any recom-
mendations concerning this topic I would be more than pleased.
