Background
Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel In my brother"s shadow.
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An amusing and cautionary tale of one summer solstice night in Berlin. If this, Uwe Timm's enchanting novel, were a cautionary tale, the tag line would go something like this: Should you plan to be in Berlin on Midsummer Night, the time of the summer solstice – Watch Out! The narrator of Timm's story is a writer who simply can't get started on his next book. So he accepts a commission to write an article about potatoes. He has some interest in the subject because of an uncle who could, remarkably, from taste alone, differentiate one species of potato from another. Since one of the authorities on the subject worked in East Berlin, our hero takes off to do some research. Rushing around the newly united city, he becomes involved in a series of madcap adventures, strange entanglements, and odd, sometimes threatening encounters. Uwe Timm spins a fascinating tale here, one filled with surprise, magic, comedy, and hope.
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Uwe Timm (Headhunter, The Invention of Curried Sausage) has been described in The New Yorker as an extraordinary storyteller. In this early novel, he focuses his narrative talents on the historical conflict between German colonists and African tribes under the leadership of the legendary Morenga in the first decade of the 20th century. A daring and brilliant military tactician, Morenga was fluent in several languages and by all reports a man of compassion, intelligence, and integrity, as he led his people towards freedom. Recounted through the eyes of Gottschalk, an engaging fictional military veterinarian, the narrative blends quotations from historical sources with actual accounts of everyday life and military excursions. The parallels between past events and later German history, with its notions of the Untermensch (subhuman beings) and racial inferiortiy, are subtly brought to mind, while significant philosophical, political, and human issues are at play. Morenga is an intriguing novel of scope and significance, and it has been well served by Breon Mitchell's prize-winning translation.
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(The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, reveali...)
The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm has heard claims that currywurst first appeared in Berlin in the 1950s, but he seems to recall having eaten it much earlier, as a boy in his native Hamburg, at a stand owned and operated by Lena Brücker. He decides to check it out. Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Brücker met, seduced and held captive a German deserter in Hamburg, in April, 1945, just before the war's end-that is the tastiest part. Timm draws gorgeous details from Lena's fine-grained recollections, and the pleasure these provide her and the reader supply the tale's real charm.
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( An ingenious, revealing, and charming tale about the in...)
An ingenious, revealing, and charming tale about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food by a woman who met, seduced, and held captive a deserter in April, 1945, just before the war's end. The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm has heard claims that currywurst first appeared in Berlin in the 1950s, but he seems to recall having eaten it much earlier, as a boy in his native Hamburg, at a stand owned and operated by Lena Brücker. He decides to check it out. Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Brücker met, seduced and held captive a German deserter in Hamburg, in April, 1945, just before the war's end-that is the tastiest part. Timm draws gorgeous details from Lena's fine-grained recollections, and the pleasure these provide her and the reader supply the tale's real charm.
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novelist screenwriter writer autobiographer
Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel In my brother"s shadow.
Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. During his studies, Timm was engaged in leftist activities of the 1960s. Three times Timm has been called as a writer-in-residence to several universities in English-speaking countries: in 1981 to the University of Warwick, in 1994 to Swansea and in 1997 to the Washington University in Saint Louis.
He has also been a lecturer at universities in Paderborn, Darmstadt, Lüneburg and Frankfurt.
Today he is one of the most successful contemporary authors in Germany. His books Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (The Discovery of Curried Sausage) and Am Beispiels meines Bruders (In my brother"s shadow, or literally: "By my Brother"s Example") can both be found on the syllabi of German schools.
His readers usually appreciate Timm"s writing style, which he himself calls "die Ästhetik des Alltags" ("the aesthetics of everyday life"). Timm imitates everyday storytelling by using everyday vocabulary and simple sentences and generally tries to imitate the way stories are orally told.
Foreign example, a minor character like Frau Brücker from Johannisnacht is taken up as a main character in his book Die Entdeckung der Currywurst.
Timm"s works also tend to have autobiographical features and often deal with the German past or are set in the German past
( An ingenious, revealing, and charming tale about the in...)
(The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, reveali...)
(Uwe Timm (Headhunter, The Invention of Curried Sausage) h...)
( An amusing and cautionary tale of one summer solstice n...)
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He became a member of the Socialist German Student Union and was associated with Benno Ohnesorg.
Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund. Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Akademie der Künste Berlin]
From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the German Communist Party.