#Wolfgang Koeppen
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Es war einmal eine Zeit, da hatten Götter in der Stadt gewohnt.
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Die Zeitungen meldeten noch am Abend Judejahns Tod, der durch die Umstände eine Weltnachricht geworden war, die aber niemand erschütterte.
Koeppen, Wolfgang, Der Tod in Rom, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
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„Ich werde früh genug tot sein, und sei sicher, ich halte nicht viel von der Bewegung des Lebens, aber mich graust vor dem Nichtsein des Todes. Warum sollte ich mich umbringen? Ja, wenn ich, wie du, den Selbstmord für eine Sünde hielte, dann gäbe es ein Nachher! Die wirkliche Versuchung, dieser Welt zu entfliehen, ist der Glaube an ein Jenseits. Wenn ich nicht an den Himmel und nicht an die Hölle glaube, dann muß ich versuchen, hier etwas Glück, hier etwas Freude zu finden, hier muß ich Schönheit und Lust suchen. Es gibt keinen anderen Ort für mich, keine andere Zeit. Hier und heute ist meine einzige Möglichkeit. Und die Versuchung, mich umzubringen, ist dann nur eine Falle, die man mir hingestellt hat. Aber wer hat sie mir hingestellt? Wenn die Falle da ist, ist auch der Fallensteller nah. Da beginnt der Zweifel. Der Zweifel des Ungläubigen an seinem Unglauben ist mindestens so schrecklich wie der Zweifel des Gläubigen. Und wir zweifeln alle. Sage nicht, daß du nicht zweifelst. Du lügst. Im Käfig der unseren Sinnen erreichbaren drei Dimensionen kann es nur Zweifler geben. Wer fühlt nicht, daß eine Wand da ist, ich nenne dieses Etwas oder dieses Nichts eine Wand, es ist ein unzulänglicher Ausdruck für etwas, das uns von einer uns nicht zugänglichen Region trennt, die ganz nahe sein mag, neben uns, vielleicht gar in uns, und würden wir eine Pforte zu diesem Bereich finden, einen Spalt in der Wand, sähen wir uns und unser Leben anders. Vielleicht wäre es schrecklich. Vielleicht könnten wir es nicht ertragen. Es ist die Sage, daß man zu Stein wird, wenn man die Wahrheit sieht. Ich möchte das entschleierte Bild sehen, selbst wenn ich zur Säule erstarre. Aber vielleicht wäre auch dies noch nicht die Wahrheit, und hinter dem Bild, das mich erstarren ließ, kämen andere Bilder, andere Schleier, noch unbegreiflichere, noch unzugänglichere, vielleicht noch furchtbarere, und ich wäre ein Stein geworden und hätte doch nichts gesehen. Etwas ist für uns unsichtbar neben der Welt und dem Leben. Aber was ist es?“
Koeppen, Wolfgang, Der Tod in Rom, Frankfurt am Main 1975, S. 154f.
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Am 30. Juni 2017 stimmte der Deutsche Bundestag über den Gesetzesentwurf zur "Ehe für alle" ab. Von 623 Abgeordneten (7 der eigentlich 630 Bundestagsmitglieder nahmen an der Abstimmung nicht teil) stimmten 393 für und 226 gegen die Verabschiedung des Gesetzes, welches gleichgeschlechtlichen Paaren die Eheschließung ermöglichen sollte. 4 Abgeordnete (allesamt der CDU/CSU-Fraktion angehörig) enthielten sich.
Bis auf die Stimme der fraktionslosen Abgeordneten Erika Steinbach (ursprünglich CDU, seit 2022 Mitglied der AfD) kamen alle Nein-Stimmen aus den Rängen der CDU/CSU-Fraktion, was bei 225 von 309 Abgeordneten bedeutet, dass knapp 73% der Fraktionsmitglieder gegen die "Ehe für alle" stimmten. (Ja-Stimmen gab es von ca. 24%, die Abwesenden und Enthaltungen machten zusammen ca. 3% der CDU/CSU-Stimmen aus.)
Von den 226 Abgeordneten, die damals gegen den Gesetzesentwurf zur "Ehe für alle" stimmten, amtieren zur Zeit 87 als Mitglieder des Bundestags.
Alle von ihnen sind Mitglieder der CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Im Einzelnen handelt es sich bei diesen Abgeordneten um:
Artur Auernhammer (Bayern)
Dorothee Bär (Bayern)
Thomas Bareiß (Baden-Württemberg)
Dr. André Berghegger (Niedersachsen)
Steffen Bilger (Baden-Württemberg)
Michael Brand (Hessen)
Dr. Reinhard Brandl (Bayern)
Prof. Dr. Helge Braun (Hessen)
Heike Brehmer (Sachsen-Anhalt)
Ralph Brinkhaus (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Alexander Dobrindt (Bayern)
Michael Donth (Baden-Württemberg)
Hansjörg Durz (Bayern)
Hermann Färber (Baden-Württemberg)
Uwe Feiler (Brandenburg)
Enak Ferlemann (Niedersachsen)
Thorsten Frei (Baden-Württemberg)
Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich (Bayern)
Michael Frieser (Bayern)
Ingo Gädechens (Schleswig-Holstein)
Hermann Gröhe (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Michael Grosse-Brömer (Niedersachsen)
Markus Grübel (Baden-Württemberg)
Manfred Grund (Thüringen)
Oliver Grundmann (Niedersachsen)
Olav Gutting (Baden-Württemberg)
Christian Haase (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Florian Hahn (Bayern)
Jürgen Hardt (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Dr. Stefan Heck (Hessen)
Ansgar Heveling (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Christian Hirte (Thüringen)
Alexander Hoffmann (Bayern)
Hubert Hüppe (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Erich Irlstorfer (Bayern)
Thomas Jarzombek (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Anja Karliczek (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Ronja Kemmer (Baden-Württemberg)
Dr. Georg Kippels (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Volkmar Klein (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Axel Knoerig (Niedersachsen)
Jens Koeppen (Brandenburg)
Markus Koob (Hessen)
Gunther Krichbaum (Baden-Württemberg)
Dr. Günter Krings (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Ulrich Lange (Bayern)
Paul Lehrieder (Bayern)
Dr. Andreas Lenz (Bayern)
Andrea Lindholz (Bayern)
Dr. Carsten Linnemann (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Patricia Lips (Hessen)
Daniela Ludwig (Bayern)
Yvonne Magwas (Sachsen)
Stephan Mayer (Bayern)
Dr. Michael Meister (Hessen)
Dietrich Monstadt (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Stefan Müller (Bayern)
Wilfried Oellers (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Florian Oßner (Bayern)
Henning Otte (Niedersachsen)
Thomas Rachel (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Kerstin Radomski (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Alexander Radwan (Bayern)
Alois Rainer (Bayern)
Dr. Peter Ramsauer (Bayern)
Josef Rief (Baden-Württemberg)
Dr. Norbert Röttgen (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Erwin Rüddel (Rheinland-Pfalz)
Albert Rupprecht (Bayern)
Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble (Baden-Württemberg)
Andreas Scheuer (Bayern)
Jana Schimke (Brandenburg)
Patrick Schnieder (Rheinland-Pfalz)
Detlef Seif (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Thomas Silberhorn (Bayern)
Albert Stegemann (Niedersachsen)
Christian Freiherr von Stetten (Baden-Württemberg)
Stephan Stracke (Bayern)
Max Straubinger (Bayern)
Astrid Timmermann-Fechter (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Dr. Volker Ullrich (Bayern)
Marco Wanderwitz (Sachsen)
Nina Warken (Baden-Württemberg)
Dr. Anja Weisgerber (Bayern)
Annette Widmann-Mauz (Baden-Württemberg)
Klaus-Peter Willsch (Hessen)
Emmi Zeulner (Bayern)
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MBTI fiction writers
Unfortunately, though for obvious reasons, I’m constrained by my own reading habits, so if you have any suggestions for underrepresented types here, please let me know and thanks for the ones that I’ve already received!
INTJ
Margaret Atwood
Joyce Carol Oates
Tom Rachman
ENTJ
Markus Zusak
Hank Green
Gillian Flynn
Bernardine Evaristo
Lois Lowry
Ruth Ozeki
INTP
Kai Meyer (interview is in German)
Neil Gaiman
J. R. R. Tolkien
ENTP
David Mitchell
Philip Pullman
John Green
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Jonathan Safran Foer
Lauren Oliver
Brandon Sanderson
Patrick Rothfuss
Michael Ende (interview is in German)
Mariana Leky (interview is in German)
Frank Herbert
Aldous Huxley
Matt Haig
Ta-Nehisi Coates
INFJ
Rohinton Mistry
Audrey Magee
Jenny Erpenbeck (interview is in German)
ENFJ
Eleanor Catton
Alissa York
INFP
Wolfgang Koeppen (interview is in German)
Helen Oyeyemi
ENFP
Gavriel Savit
Maggie Stiefvater
Jan Philipp Zymny (interview is in German)
Stephen Chbosky
Daniel Handler
Rick Riordan
Christopher Paolini
George R. R. Martin
V. E. Schwab
Jenny-Mai Nuyen (interview is in German)
ISTJ
Astrid Lindgren
Ken Follet
Elizabeth Nunez
ESTJ
Kerstin Gier (interview is in German)
Cornelia Funke
John Boyne
Maja Lunde
Sebastian Fitzek (interview is in German)
ISFJ
Anna Burns
Lucinda Riley
Jack Livings
ESFJ
Tomi Adeyemi
Victoria Aveyard
Suzanne Collins
Raquel J. Palacio
Jojo Moyes
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rebecca Gablé (interview is in German)
Kirsten Boie (interview is in German)
ISTP
Jhumpa Lahiri
John Irving
Erich Kästner (interview is in German)
James Dashner
Fredrik Backman
ESTP
Leigh Bardugo
Sabaa Tahir
Paulo Coelho
Stephen King
Jonas Jonasson
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Erich Maria Remarque (interview is in German)
ISFP
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Tash Aw
Andreas Izquierdo (interview is in German)
Antoine Laurain
ESFP
Adam Silvera
Nicholas Sparks
Cecelia Ahern
#i've tried to include as many different genres as i could name any authors of to get a broader picture#and if you've got any more suggestions or want a writer typed just let me know! i honestly enjoy watching these interviews#mbti#typing post
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aber er mochte keine sprengkörper. alle politik war schmutzig, sie glich den gangsterkämpfen, und ihre mittel waren dreckig und zerreißend; selbst wer das gute wollte, wurde leicht zu einem anderen mephistopheles, der stets das böse schafft; denn was war gut und eas war böse auf diesem feld, das sich weit in die zukunft ausdehnte, weit in ein dunkles reich?
durch das fenster drang wieder feuchtwarm erddunst und pflanzengeruch eines botanischen gartens, und bleiche blitze durchzuckten das treibhaus.
wolfgang koeppen; das treibhaus
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Alredered Remembers German novelist Wolfgang Koeppen, on his birthday.
“The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval.”
― Wolfgang Koeppen, Death in Rome
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"Word of mouth. Old VHS tapes passed around, watched on VCR’s when parents were not home. That is how Liquid Sky survived the period between its release and the rise of the web."
"The Tomb of Edgar Poe
Such as into Himself at last eternity changes him,
the Poet with a naked sword provokes
his century appalled to not have known
death triumphed in that strange voice!
They, like an upstart hydra hearing the angel once
purify the meaning of tribal words
proclaimed out loud the prophecy drunk
without honour in the tide of some black mixture.
From soil and hostile cloud, what strife!
if our idea fails to sculpt a bas-relief
to ornament the dazzling tomb of Poe,
calm block fallen down here from an unseen disaster,
let this granite at least set for all time a limit
to the black flights of Blasphemy scattered in the future."
--Stéphane Mallarmé (unascribed tr at poetrysociety.org.uk)
SR archives at Urbanomics.
"The unbeliever's doubt in his unbelief is at least as terrible as the doubt of the unbeliever."
[The composer to the deacon in Wolfgang Koeppen's excruciating novel, Death in Rome, translated by Michael Hofmann.] --@aliner
Flight to Mars. (Everything you need to understand my art is here.)
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„Tauben im Gras“Übereifriger Antirassismus-Furor wütet gegen Aufarbeitungsliteratur
Die JF schreibt: »Weil eine Lehrerin mit dem Roman „Tauben im Gras“ wegen der darin verwendeten rassistischen Ausdrücke ein Problem hat, soll das Buch aus dem Unterricht verschwinden. Dabei fällt unter den Tisch, daß es dem Autor Wolfgang Koeppen um Aufarbeitung auch von Rassismus geht. Eine Verteidigung des Romans von Helmut Seifen.
Dieser Beitrag „Tauben im Gras“Übereifriger Antirassismus-Furor wütet gegen Aufarbeitungsliteratur wurde veröffentlich auf JUNGE FREIHEIT. http://dlvr.it/SlyzVS «
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Mütter - Mütter
Autor: Rene Rilz (Hrsg.)
Illustration: Johannes Gerber
Titel: Mütter - Mütter -- Briefe - Erzählungen - Gedichte
Einband: Hardcover
Verlag: Steinheim Verlag
Erschienen: 1983
Sprache: Deutsch
ISBN: 3889520022
ISBN-13: 9783889520029
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Anna Schieber
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- Anselm Feuerbach
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Bettina von Arnim
- Caroline Schlegel-Schelling
- Christiane Vulpius
- Clemens Brentano
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
- Eduard Mörike
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Erich Kästner
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
- Ernst Wiechert
- Eva Rechlin
- Franz Werfel
- Friedrich Güll
- Friedrich Hebbel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Schiller
- Gabriele von Bülow
- Gabriele Wohmann
- Gerrit Engelke
- Gottfried Keller
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Heinrich Heine
- Jakob Kneip
- Johann Peter Hebel
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johanna Schopenhauer
- Joseph Wittig
- Justinus Kerner
- Karl Bröger
- Karl Friedrich von Klöden
- Karl Immermann
- Klabund
- Kurt Schwitters
- Lisa Tetzner
- Lisa-Marie Blum
- Ludwig Uhland
- Maria Theresia
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- Martin Luther
- Matthias Claudius
- Max Herrmann-Neiße
- Nikolaus Lenau
- Novalis
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Robert Schumann
- Rudolf Virchow
- Theodor Fontane
- Theodor Körner
- Theodor Mommsen
- Theodor Storm
- Ulrich Bräker
- Wilhelm Busch
- Wilhelm Raabe
- Wilhelm Tischbein
- Wilhelm von Kügelgen
- Wilhelm Waiblinger
- Wolfgang Koeppen
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Could you recommend some of your favourite German & Austrian literature?
I absolutely could, and will! Caveat that very little of this is recent, because I read comparatively little contemporary literature, and because I live in the US most of the time, where I don’t have a lot of access to recently-published German-language lit. I’m going to presume, I hope not offensively, that including ur-classics on here is fine. I have less Austrian stuff on here than German, because I’ve never lived in Austria and browsed its libraries. If anyone wants to rec me Austrian stuff, do! Also, I am leaving out poetry (even my beloved Rilke!) and medieval stuff for the purposes of this list. Parameters being established…
Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther. I love Werther. Flawless pacing, exquisite language, emotional realism… it packs a wallop, from first to last. If you’re reading in English translation, I recommend the Stanley Corngold. (Goethe’s Faust is a WORLD and I love it, and also it’s one of those texts that shapes subsequent literatures in innumerable ways, but also every English translation I’ve dipped in feels curiously bloodless.)
SCHILLER, you must read Schiller. I recommend Kabale und Liebe and/or Wilhelm Tell for starters, or if you would like the most gay one, Don Karlos. The Wallenstein trilogy is also good, but… less engaging, imho. Schiller’s essays are also good!
Heinrich von Kleist, Die Marquise von O… and/or Michael Kohlhaas. Caveat: I’m not emotionally attached to these works the way I am most of the others on here. But scenes and lines from them haunt me years after first reading them, so that must mean something.
Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest. Sex, gender, and anxiety about both (of course!) in the late 19th century. It’s hypnotic, claustrophobic, atmospheric, and incisive. It also has critiques of the imperial military state, because of course it does.
Arthur Schnitzler, Der Reigen. I have a soft spot for late 19th-century anxieties about sex and gender! This is another text dealing with that! (Also, it had an obscenity trial; fun times.) But if you’re looking for a German/Austrian contrast, you could perhaps hardly do better than Effi Briest – Baltic sea town, Berlin shops, angst and the north wind – and Der Reigen, set in the salons and back streets and theatres and public parks of Vienna.
20th century under the cut!
Thomas Mann is not my favorite; I am very sorry.
Robert Walser, Geschichten / Berlin Stories. These are charming vignettes about Berlin in the early 20th century, full of vibrancy and life and the joys of street food.
Walter Benjamin, Berliner Kindheit um 1900. This is a memoir, but if you want a look at electrified, modern Berlin and the joys and anxieties of childhood from a philosopher of language (!!) this is beautiful.
Stefan Zweig… I am overwhelmed by Zweig. His language and his ideas are dense and immersive. Try “Brennendes Geheimnis” to see how you feel about him.
Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan. This is a hilarious, dark psychological study of a stupid and greedy minor businessman who finds his identity through extolling an authoritarian leader, whose militaristic masculinity he tries to ape with pathetic results. It was originally published in 1918. It remains frighteningly apt today.
If you like surrealism, try Alfred Döblin, or Hermann Hesse’s Der Steppenwolf; otherwise, move onto…
Joseph Roth, Radetzkymarsch. I get a wild light in my eyes when recommending this novel. It is elegiac and savage; it is about history and memory and family and place. It is breathtaking in its scope and in its intimacy. It’s about the fall of an empire. It’s about identity. It’s about how little we know of those closest to us. It is mysteriously perfect!
Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder. I don’t understand the eye-rolling Mutter Courage gets. It might be because it is assigned in German lit classes (I think I read it 3?? times in my undergraduate days). But it is a savage and humane look at how war disrupts lives, and how it often reinforces the depressingly durable oppressions of class, gender, and disability.
Hans Fallada, Jeder stirbt für sich allein / Alone in Berlin. This book breaks my heart. I love this book. Its chief protagonists are a working-class middle-aged couple (!!) and the book opens on an unthinkable loss: their son has been killed at the front. They voted for the Führer – he brought back jobs! he promised to restore glory! Now, though, the telegram reduces that promised glory to a bargain that suddenly seems suspect. They start distributing subversive cards, querying the promises of triumph… they’re so brave and loving, and they stumble clumsily towards a kind of mundane, imperfect heroism.
Wolfgang Koeppen, Tauben im Gras. This is part of the so-called Trilogie des Scheiterns, so you know it’s not going to be cheerful. Taking place in postwar Munich (ok, an unnamed city, but Munich), it’s a slender volume that packs a punch, with a sweet interracial romance and the drone of planes and the realities of rationing.
Günter Grass I include mostly out of a sense of duty. My personal favorite is, weirdly, Das Treffen in Telgte, because I like novels that are about layered histories and the mess of flawed humans trying to implement important ideas. (Der Blechtrommel is, of course, THE Grass novel to read. Why do I not care more about it? I’m not sure. Convince me to give it another try, someone!)
Christa Wolf, Der geteilte Himmel. Hey, it’s finally a woman author! This beautifully imagistic novel is a quietly devastating look at the inhumanity of political and economic systems, and at the frailty of love. “Unbewußt gestattete sie sich einen letzten Fluchtversuch: Nicht mehr aus verzweifelter Liebe, sondern aus Verzweiflung darüber, daß Liebe vergänglich ist wie alles und jedes.” That line breaks me.
Patrick Süskind. If you want a look at dark German humor, try Süßkind. Das Parfum is brilliant but potentially Too Much (multiple women are murdered. For this reason I haven’t seen the film, but I thought the book was great.) Der Kontrabaß is a laugh-out-loud funny skewering of Kleinbürgerlichkeit. With music jokes!
Andrea Maria Schenkel, Tannöd. The truth comes out: when I read contemporary novels, they are often mysteries. This one is a compelling look at cultural isolation and its wide-reaching aftereffects.
Elfriede Jelinek, Rein Gold. If I say, “Are you interested in a feminist, anti-capitalist essay for the stage about Wagner’s Ring Cycle and its many receptions, you are either going to say, “Um, obviously,” or “…No? Who are you?” This is a very specific recommendation, I realize, but it is very much about Germany from the late 19th century to the early 21st.
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Wie Tauben im Gras betrachteten gewisse Zivilisationsgeister die Menschen, indem sie sich bemühten, das Sinnlose und scheinbar Zufällige der menschlichen Existenz bloßzustellen, den Menschen frei von Gott zu schildern [...].
Wolfgang Koeppen (Tauben im Gras)
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I love reading fanfics and novels. I really do.
What I do not love? : That I tend to copy writing styles (as in: what tense am I writing in? Present tense? Präteritum? Many descriptive attributes vs. few, a more lyrical approach vs. straight to the point? Think Effie Briest [Theodor Fontane] vs. Tod in Rom [Wolfgang Koeppen] vs. Angels and Demons [Dan Brown]? Okay these are extreme examples and I‘m not sure how many people even know these books outside of suffering through them in German classes (to be fair, I liked both Effie Briest and Tod in Rom mainly due to the writing style lmao while everybody else hated them with a vengeance), but just a few sentences in each of those books perfectly illustrate what I mean) of what I read. So at the moment (because hello Bering and Wells my old friend, I‘ve come to suffer with you again) my writing is a mess and kinda stagnates, because this disparity between what my mind is doing in processing what I read and what I‘m writing is driving me insane.
At this point I‘ll never get the random assortment of scenes that I already have (featuring varying writing styles…) into a cohesive story.
Why was this so much easier years ago? (Or maybe I just didn‘t care back then… though that‘s probably not it actually, considering the nearly 50k words of unfinished and fragmented Bering and Wells fanfic ideas/snippets I still have lying around.)
How do other people not get permanently sidetracked?
It also doesn‘t help that while I had intended to write quite a bit over my three weeks of winter/Christmas vacation… I have spent most of the time knitting, reading and doodling; and only wrote like 200 words.
(And then there is my 50k+ NaNo novel from 2019 that is only telling like half of the planned story at this point anyway and needs not only obvious revisions but also finishing… 2019 my writing was kinda okay though - but I wasn‘t reading any fanfics at that time so nothing was making me constantly shift gears.)
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Maybe fiction writers are in situations where they are expected to think more and perform less compared to actors and entertainers so they come across as if they are engaging their introverted functions?
Interesting thought, and you are right that they absolutely perform less, but that's what makes typing them so much easier. I'm actually really enjoying myself watching all these interviews with writers because none of them are out there playing the entertainer like your typical celebrity does (also, the interviews are a lot more interesting than your usual Hollywood gossip). The writers behave like normal people you meet every day and luckily, I could find some really long interviews with a lot of them where they get to talk in depth about their writing process, which directly tells you about how their mind works. But the extroverted writers (and there are a lot) don't necessarily appear more introverted, just less like entertainers. Some of the introverts, however, take their sweet time answering questions. I watched an hour long interview (from the 70s if I remember correctly) with Wolfgang Koeppen (an INFP) earlier this week and sometimes, he'd just straight up not answer a question for like half a minute (and he was allowed to do that on television at that time! Can you imagine that happening today? Unbelievable. I love these old interviews). Also (not related to your question, but while I'm on topic and since that interview is in German, so most of you probably won't see it), it's amazing to watch such old interviews with accomplished writers and have the interviewer ask a question such as "what do you consider your greatest achievement?" and him saying "surviving the Third Reich without making myself dirty." And then they go on and talk about what happiness really is and he is debating it with himself, poking fun at Goethe for saying that he was possibly happy for two minutes in his life, only to come around saying a few minutes later that he himself has literally never been happy ever. And not even for comedy! This was not a performance. Where else do you get these kinds of interviews? Have I mentioned that I love these interviews?
#i currently have authors of every type on the list but only one each for entj isfj and isfp#so if you can think of anyone please please let me know#i'm currently going so far that i'm watching interviews with writers whose existence i'm aware of but would never voluntarily read#never having read his books i watched an hour long interview with nicholas sparks the other day and he was not at all how i thought he'd be#but that's how i'm currently filling in the gaps in the list and it's still very interesting!#also by thinking back on authors from my childhood so that's fun#ask
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Mantel und Beil warf er in den Fluss, der Witwer Possehl, er beugte sich übers Geländer der Brücke, Mantel und Beil sanken in den Flussgrund, sie waren beseitigt, das Wasser glättete sich, Wasser von den Bergen Schneeschmelze Gletscherschutt blanke wohlschmeckende Forellen.
Wolfgang Koeppen; Das Treibhaus
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Favorite Authors
Magda Szabo
Natalia Ginzburg
Hilary Mantel
Zadie Smith
Qiu Miaojin
Roberto Bolaño
Italo Calvino
Yoko Ogawa
China Miéville
John Williams
Walter Tevis
Wolfgang Koeppen
Dorothy Parker
Anaïs Nin
John Dos Passos
Tana French
Patti Smith
Vladimir Nabokov
Raymond Queneau
Arundhati Roy
Emile Zola
Anne Brontë
Graham Greene
David Mitchell
Jane Austen
Favorite Poets
Frank O’Hara
Attila Josef
Andras Gerevich
Bertold Brecht
Victor Serge
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Rainer Maria Rilke
Constantine P. Cavafy
Catullus
Statius
Favorite Playwrights
Euripides
Anne Carson
Luis Alfaro
Favorite Essayists
Vivian Gornick
Arundhati Roy
Mike Davis
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Paul Avrich
Marcus Aurelius
James Baldwin
Favorite Directors
Fellini
Antonioni
Kurosawa
Ozu
Herzog
Tarkovsky
Wong Kai-War
Favorite Movies
Kaili Blues
Chungking Express
Three Colors Blue
My Best Fiend
Orlando
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Calvary
The Guard
In Bruges
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Nostalghia
La Notte
Nights of Cabiria
Last Year in Marienbad
Band of Outsiders
Contempt
Goodbye First Love
Army of Shadows
I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Third Man
The Thin Man
Tekkonkinkreet
The Secret of Kells
Favorite Books
Manazuru
Malacqua
M Train
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Difficult Loves
Invisible Cities
Wolf Hall Trilogy
2666
Manhattan Transfer
USA Trilogy
The Likeness
Signs Preceding the End of the World
The City & the City
Zazie in the Metro
Death in Rome
An Unhappy Affair
Mouchette
Katalin Street
The Door
Abigail
Butcher’s Crossing
Woolgathering
The Quiet American
The Queen’s Gambit
The Heart of the Matter
Margary Kempe
Ghostwritten
Isa’s Ballad
Emma
Sense & Sensibility
White Teeth
Kino’s Journey
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Favorite Music
Goodnight, Texas
Explosions in the Sky
Mogwai
Mitski
Hammock
This Will Destroy You
Milburn
The Libertines
Johnny Flynn
Laura Marling
Lunasa
Talisk
The Killers
KT Tunstall
Rhiannon Giddena
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
The Tallis Scholars
Patti Smith
The Clash
Mitski
Florence and the Machine
Charles Mingus
Kaia Keter
Glenn Jones
William Tyler
Edgar Meyer
Bela Fleck
Tsirani Tsar
Maneli Jamal
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Hozier
Sangpuy
Suga Shikao
Palestrina
Morten Laurissen
Joaquin Byrd
Leonard Cohen
Favorite TV Shows
Wolf Hall
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Black Books
The Expanse
Babylon 5
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Terror
Derry Girls
Kino’s Journey
Kids on the Slope
Favorite Comics/Manga
xxxHolic
Naruto
Sandman
Solanin
Fullmetal Alchemist
Nana
Yotsuba
Persepolis
Tekkonkinkreet
Ouran High School Host Club
Favorite Video Games
Disco Elysium
Kentucky Route Zero
Pokemon Emerald
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age 2
The Sims 2
Harvest Moon
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