The German lesson

The German lesson
The German lesson  
Author(s) Siegfried Lenz
Original title Deutschstunde
Translator Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Country Germany
Language German
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Hoffmann und Campe
New Directions Publishing (English version)
Publication date 1968
Media type Print
Pages 470 pp (English edition)
ISBN ISBN 9780811209823 (English version)

The German lesson (original title: Deutschstunde) is a novel by the German writer Siegfried Lenz, published in 1968 in Germany. English edition The German lesson was published in 1986 by New Directions Publishing, New York City. Deutschstunde was translated in several languages.

Contents

Plot

Siggi Jepsen (the first-person narrator), an inmate of a juvenile detention center, is forced to write an article themed The joys of duty. Siggi Jepsen describes his youth in Nazi Germany where his father, the "most northerly police officer in Germany" does his duty, even as his task is to debar an old childhood friend, the painter Max Nansen from his profession. Siggi feels compelled with Nansen's paintings, "the green faces, the Mongol eyes, these deformed bodies ... ", so he steals them. After 1945 Jepsen is interned for a short time and later reinstalled into his position.[1]

Characters

  • Siggi Jepsen
  • Jens Ole Jepsen – Siggi's father, a police officer
  • Max Nansen – a painter, pursued by the Nazis, whom Lenz based on the expressionist painter Emil Nolde[1]
  • Gudrun Jepsen – Siggi's mother
  • Klaas – Siggi's brother
  • Hilke – Siggi's sister

Adaptations

In 1971 Peter Beauvais filmed Die Deutschstunde for the German TV-broadcaster ARD section SFB.[2]

Releases details

  • German: Deutschstunde (1968). Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, OCLC 17466388 (First edition)
    • German: Deutschstunde (2006). Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, ISBN 9783455042115 (20th ed., hardcover)
    • German: Deutschstunde (2006). Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, ISBN 9783423134118 (37th ed., pocket book)
  • Chinese: De yu ke. (2008) Taibei Shi: Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, ISBN 9789573260004
  • French: La leçon d'allemand (2001). Paris: R. Laffont, ISBN 9782221094600
  • Korean: Togirŏ sigan (2000). Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi : Minŭmsa, ISBN 9788937460401
  • Danish: Tysktime (1996). København: Gyldendal, ISBN 9788700255067
  • Portuguese: A lição de alemão (1991) Lisboa: Publ. Dom Quixote, ISBN 9789722008419
  • Spanish: Lección de alemán (1990) Madrid: Debate, ISBN 9788474443622
  • Finnish: Saksantunti (1974). Helsinki: Uusi kirjakerho, ISBN 9789516380448
  • Russian: Urok nemeckogo (1970). Moskva: Progress, OCLC 312415290
  • Slovak: Hodina nemčiny (1972). Bratislava: Slovenský Spisovatel', OCLC 72404937
  • Czech: Hodina němčiny (1974). Praha: Odeon, OCLC 42102701

References

  1. ^ a b "Siegfried Lenz (1926), Deutschstunde". Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/prj/was/len/enindex.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-04. 
  2. ^ "Deutschstunde" (in German). Zweitausendeins. http://www.filmevona-z.de/filmsuche.cfm?wert=513163&sucheNach=titel. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 



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