Johnson, Uwe 1934-1984
Overview
| Works: | 685 works in 2,400 publications in 11 languages and 31,943 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Records and correspondence Biography History Interviews Pictorial works |
| Roles: | Author, Other, Creator, Translator, Adapter, Editor, Dedicatee, Redactor, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Honoree, Collector, Interviewer, Arranger, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Performer, Contributor |
| Classifications: | PT2670.O36, 833.914 |
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Most widely held works about
Uwe Johnson
- Die Joyce-Rezeption in der deutschsprachigen Erzählliteratur nach 1945 by Maren Jäger( )
- Uwe Johnson by Mark Boulby( Book )
- Der Erzähler Uwe Johnson by Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz( Book )
- Jüdische Nachbarschaften in New York : eine Lektüre der Lesbaren Spuren der "Jüdischen Frage Deutscher Art" in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestage by Stefan Gädtke( )
- Beyond the single vision : Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson by Marianne Hirsch( Book )
- Der Briefwechsel by Uwe Johnson( Book )
- Understanding Uwe Johnson by Gary Lee Baker( Book )
- Uwe Johnson by Walter Schmitz( Book )
- Über Uwe Johnson by Reinhard Baumgart( Book )
- Uwe Johnson by Jürgen Grambow( Book )
- The German epic in the Cold War : Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge by Matthew D Miller( )
- Speculations about Jakob and other writings by Uwe Johnson( Book )
- Dialogue with the reader : the narrative stance in Uwe Johnson's fiction by Kurt J Fickert( Book )
- Uwe Johnson by Uwe Johnson( Book )
- Neither left nor right : the politics of individualism in Uwe Johnson's work by Kurt J Fickert( Book )
- Uwe Johnson by Erich Wünderich( Book )
- Uwe Johnson, "Für wenn ich tot bin" by Siegfried Unseld( Book )
- Die Erzählkunst Uwe Johnsons : Jahrestage und andere Prosa by Norbert Mecklenburg( Book )
- Utopie und Mimesis : zum Verhältnis von Ästhetik, Gesellschaftsphilosophie u. Politik in d. Romanen Uwe Johnsons by Bernd Neumann( Book )
- Uwe Johnsons "Jahrestage" : Erzählstruktur und politische Subjektivität by Ulrich Fries( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Uwe Johnson
Speculations about Jakob by
Uwe Johnson(
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238 editions published between 1959 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatcher who's been sought by the Russians to help recruit a girl for Soviet espionage, is killed on his return home from visiting this NATO employee in West Berlin, speculations abound as layer after layer of recollection, overheard conversation, and inner monologue is peeled away
238 editions published between 1959 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatcher who's been sought by the Russians to help recruit a girl for Soviet espionage, is killed on his return home from visiting this NATO employee in West Berlin, speculations abound as layer after layer of recollection, overheard conversation, and inner monologue is peeled away
The third book about Achim by
Uwe Johnson(
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152 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,855 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
152 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,855 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two views by
Uwe Johnson(
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119 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 1,483 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En ulykkelig kærlighedshistorie om to mennesker på hver sin side af Berlin-muren
119 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 1,483 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En ulykkelig kærlighedshistorie om to mennesker på hver sin side af Berlin-muren
Anniversaries : from the life of Gesine Cresspahl by
Uwe Johnson(
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20 editions published between 1974 and 2018 in English and German and held by 950 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan's Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie--a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times: Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news--the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam--was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine's childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel, Anniversaries would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century's ­disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world.Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and Anniversaries, at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time
20 editions published between 1974 and 2018 in English and German and held by 950 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan's Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie--a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times: Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news--the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam--was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine's childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel, Anniversaries would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century's ­disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world.Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and Anniversaries, at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time
Jahrestage. Aus d. Leben von Gesine Cresspahl by
Uwe Johnson(
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65 editions published between 1970 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 813 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The core to this novel is remembrance, and Jahrestage is a requiem for the victims of twentieth-century German history. Told in the form of recollections of Gesine Cresspahl of the history of her family from the Weimar Republic to the Prague Spring. She has fled as a single mother from the DDR to live in New York, while supporting "socialism with a human face" as forwarded by Dubček
65 editions published between 1970 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 813 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The core to this novel is remembrance, and Jahrestage is a requiem for the victims of twentieth-century German history. Told in the form of recollections of Gesine Cresspahl of the history of her family from the Weimar Republic to the Prague Spring. She has fled as a single mother from the DDR to live in New York, while supporting "socialism with a human face" as forwarded by Dubček
Ingrid Babendererde : Reifeprüfung 1953 by
Uwe Johnson(
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44 editions published between 1985 and 2016 in German and Undetermined and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der erste Roman von Uwe Johnson erzählt die Geschichte einer Schülerfreundschaft in Mecklenburg vor dem Hintergrund der DDR-Wirklichkeit
44 editions published between 1985 and 2016 in German and Undetermined and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der erste Roman von Uwe Johnson erzählt die Geschichte einer Schülerfreundschaft in Mecklenburg vor dem Hintergrund der DDR-Wirklichkeit
Karsch, und andere Prosa by
Uwe Johnson(
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53 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 564 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
53 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 564 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Eine Reise nach Klagenfurt by
Uwe Johnson(
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28 editions published between 1974 and 2012 in German and English and held by 381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
28 editions published between 1974 and 2012 in German and English and held by 381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Begleitumstände : Frankfurter Vorlesungen by
Uwe Johnson(
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31 editions published between 1980 and 2003 in German and Undetermined and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
31 editions published between 1980 and 2003 in German and Undetermined and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Stich-Worte by
Max Frisch(
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27 editions published between 1975 and 2016 in German and Undetermined and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
27 editions published between 1975 and 2016 in German and Undetermined and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Skizze eines Verunglückten by
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40 editions published between 1981 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un récit réquisitoire qui met en scène un héros, miroir romanesque de la double trahison, amoureuse et politique, dont l'auteur lui-même fut victime dans la réalité
40 editions published between 1981 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un récit réquisitoire qui met en scène un héros, miroir romanesque de la double trahison, amoureuse et politique, dont l'auteur lui-même fut victime dans la réalité
Der Briefwechsel : Max Frisch, Uwe Johnson, 1964-1983 by
Max Frisch(
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20 editions published between 1999 and 2015 in German and Italian and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1999 and 2015 in German and Italian and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Berliner Sachen : Aufsätze by
Uwe Johnson(
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25 editions published between 1975 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
25 editions published between 1975 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An absence by
Uwe Johnson(
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6 editions published in 1969 in English and German and held by 266 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published in 1969 in English and German and held by 266 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Heute neunzig Jahr : aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Norbert Mecklenburg by
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16 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in German and Undetermined and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Johnson died before completing the work, which centers on Gesine Cresspahl (a character familiar from Jahrestage) and her search for her father
16 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in German and Undetermined and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Johnson died before completing the work, which centers on Gesine Cresspahl (a character familiar from Jahrestage) and her search for her father
A trip to Klagenfurt : in the footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann by
Uwe Johnson(
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4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The great Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann died in Rome but was buried in Klagenfurt, the city of her childhood. Only days later, Uwe Johnson made a pilgrimage to her grave site and to Klagenfurt itself, which Bachmann had always promised to show him. Johnson re-creates her presence by layering the cultural, physical, and historical landscape of the city - from its picturesque lake and totemic dragon to a personal visit from Hitler during Bachmann's childhood - with Bachmann's letters, interviews, and published writings. The result is a biographical montage that explores the vast forces behind a single extraordinary life. A Trip to Klagenfurt illuminates the writers' friendship as well as Johnson's entire generation."--BOOK JACKET
4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The great Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann died in Rome but was buried in Klagenfurt, the city of her childhood. Only days later, Uwe Johnson made a pilgrimage to her grave site and to Klagenfurt itself, which Bachmann had always promised to show him. Johnson re-creates her presence by layering the cultural, physical, and historical landscape of the city - from its picturesque lake and totemic dragon to a personal visit from Hitler during Bachmann's childhood - with Bachmann's letters, interviews, and published writings. The result is a biographical montage that explores the vast forces behind a single extraordinary life. A Trip to Klagenfurt illuminates the writers' friendship as well as Johnson's entire generation."--BOOK JACKET
"Fuer Zwecke der brutalen Verstaendigung" : Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Uwe Johnson : der Briefwechsel by
Hans Magnus Enzensberger(
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7 editions published in 2009 in German and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1959, kurz nach Uwe Johnsons Übersiedelung in den Westen Berlins und der Veröffentlichung seines Debütromans Mutmassungen über Jakob, beginnen der Briefwechsel und die Freundschaft zwischen ihm und Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Über einen Zeitraum von acht Jahren verständigen sie sich über die literarische und politische Lage und diskutieren die Spielräume politischen Engagements. Zugleich aber zeugen die 161 Dokumente von einer Auseinandersetzung über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Freundschaft. Bereits im Oktober 1966 forderte Uwe Johnson, den gemeinsamen Briefwechsel "nicht mehr fuer eine kuenftige Edition und Altersversorgung einzurichten sondern fuer Zwecke der brutalen Verstaendigung". Über scheinbar Alltäglichem kommt es zu prinzipiellen Betrachtungen und zuletzt zu einem Zerwürfnis: Daß Uwe Johnson seine Berliner Wohnungen Enzensbergers erster Frau Dagrun und dessen Bruder Ulrich zur Verfügung stellt, führt in Aporien von Vertrauen, Bürgschaft und Verantwortung. Ein Jahr später erreicht selbst diese
7 editions published in 2009 in German and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1959, kurz nach Uwe Johnsons Übersiedelung in den Westen Berlins und der Veröffentlichung seines Debütromans Mutmassungen über Jakob, beginnen der Briefwechsel und die Freundschaft zwischen ihm und Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Über einen Zeitraum von acht Jahren verständigen sie sich über die literarische und politische Lage und diskutieren die Spielräume politischen Engagements. Zugleich aber zeugen die 161 Dokumente von einer Auseinandersetzung über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Freundschaft. Bereits im Oktober 1966 forderte Uwe Johnson, den gemeinsamen Briefwechsel "nicht mehr fuer eine kuenftige Edition und Altersversorgung einzurichten sondern fuer Zwecke der brutalen Verstaendigung". Über scheinbar Alltäglichem kommt es zu prinzipiellen Betrachtungen und zuletzt zu einem Zerwürfnis: Daß Uwe Johnson seine Berliner Wohnungen Enzensbergers erster Frau Dagrun und dessen Bruder Ulrich zur Verfügung stellt, führt in Aporien von Vertrauen, Bürgschaft und Verantwortung. Ein Jahr später erreicht selbst diese
Verzweigungen : eine Autobiographie by
Margret Boveri(
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20 editions published between 1977 and 1996 in German and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1977 and 1996 in German and held by 189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der 5. Kanal by
Uwe Johnson(
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7 editions published in 1987 in German and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1987 in German and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Uwe Johnson : Befreundungen : Gespräche, Dokumente, Essays by
Uwe Johnson(
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4 editions published in 2002 in German and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 2002 in German and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Fahlke, Eberhard 1944- Other Author of introduction Arranger Author Editor
- Frisch, Max 1911-1991 Author
- Riedel, Nicolai Author Editor
- Schmidt, Arno 1914-1979
- Hildesheimer, Wolfgang 1916-1991 Other Interviewee
- Koeppen, Wolfgang 1906-1996
- Jäger, Maren Author
- Joyce, James 1882-1941
- Neumann, Bernd 1943 June 19- Other Author Editor
- Unseld, Siegfried Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Other Author Editor
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Aesthetics Authors, Austrian Authors, German Authors, Swiss Authors and publishers Bachmann, Ingeborg, Berlin Wall (Germany : 1961-1989) Bernhard, Thomas Boveri, Margret, Butor, Michel Cold War (1945-1989) in literature Culture conflict in literature Enzensberger, Hans Magnus Fernsehen der DDR Fiction First person narrative Friendship Frisch, Max, Fritsch, Gerhard, German fiction German literature German prose literature Germany Germany (East) Germany (West) Germany--Berlin Grass, Anna Grass, Günter, Individualism in literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Jahrestage (Johnson, Uwe) James, Henry, Johnson, Uwe, Journalism Joyce, James, Kluge, Alexander, Man-woman relationships Mimesis in literature Mutmassungen über Jakob (Johnson, Uwe) Narration (Rhetoric) New York (State)--New York Nurses Photographers Political and social views Publishers and publishing Technique Travel in literature Unseld, Siegfried Utopias in literature Weiss, Peter,
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Yonjun, Ube 1934-1984
Yonson, Uṿe 1934-1984
Yonson, Uṿeh 1934-1984
Йонсон, Уве
Уве Йонзон
יונסון, אווה 1934-1984
أوفي يونسون
أوفي يونسون كاتب ألماني
اووه یونزون نویسنده آلمانی
욘존, 우베 1934-1984
존슨, 우베 1934-1984
ウーヴェ・ヨーンゾン
ウーヴェ・ヨーンゾン 1934-1984
ヨーンゾン
ヨーンゾン, ウーヴェ 1934-1984
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