Arno Holz - Beyond Alexanderplatz

Introducing Arno Holz Phantasus

The German poet Arno Holz – still too little known even ...

October 15, 2024

Phantasus book completed

The first substantial English translation of Arno Holz’s poetry is now ...

October 15, 2024

Phantasus Selection 1

The plain uncomplicated language of the 101 poems in the first ...

October 15, 2024

Phantasus selection 2

Arno Holz was deeply interested in the scientific developments of the ...

October 15, 2024

Phantasus Selection 3

Fully one-third of the poems in Phantasus depict imagined fantastical scenes and behaviours, ...

October 15, 2024

Phantasus Selection 4

Loss, love, longing, joy, scorn, sadness – Holz can capture moods ...

October 15, 2024

UPDATES: Yolla, Holz, Gurk, Müller, Amazonas, Anders

As work proceeds with the main task of bringing neglected 20th ...

October 15, 2024

Doeblin’s Eulogy for Arno Holz

In his funeral oration for the poet Arno Holz (1863-1929), Doeblin ...

October 15, 2024

Arno Holz and Phantasus

The first version of Arno Holz’s poem cycle ‘Phantasus’, published in ...

October 15, 2024

Arno Holz Phantasus complete

The poet Arno Holz was born 156 years ago today, on ...

October 15, 2024

Alfred Döblin is known to the English-reading world, if at all, for only one of his many works: the big-city epic Berlin Alexanderplatz. With a new translation of THAT book appearing in 2018, this is a good moment to introduce Alfred Döblin’s OTHER major works – Beyond Alexanderplatz – in English!

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