Volume 4, Number 1 (January 1997)

Forward! -- Editorial, Ingo R. Stoehr

View from America --
      German-English Translations: A Personal Perspective,  Christoph Lohmann

 View from Germany --                                                              
     Appointments with a Renegade's Fate: The Individual Departure from Socialist Utopia, Uwe Kolbe
     translated by Stephen Kampmeier

FOCUS: New Books of Fall 1996

     »Ideen fliegen einem zu und Autoren auch«
     Ein Gespräch mit Daniel Keel, Ingo R. Stoehr
     "Ideas Come Easily and So Do Authors"
     A Conversation with Daniel Keel, translated by Louise and Ingo Stoehr

      Im Kongo, Urs Widmer
      In the Congo, translated by Breon Mitchell

      Kalt ist der Abendhauch, Ingrid Noll
      The Evening Breeze is Cold, translated by Grit Liebscher

      Ein Sonntag im Mai, Ludwig Harig
      One Sunday in may, translated by Louise E. Stoehr

      Zeichnungen und Gouachen, Emil Schumacher
      Drawings and Gouache Paintings

      Die Exekution des Pudels, Gion Mathias Cavelty
      The Execution of the Poodle, translated by Peter Hess

      Korrespondenz, Ernst Jandl
      Correspondence, translated by Michael Hamburger

      Ein Psychologe, Burkhard Spinnen
      A Psychologist, translated by Paul Widergren

      Aphorismen zur Liebe, Felix Philipp Ingold
      Aphorisms on Love, translated by Sabine Schmidt

      Roter Baum, Uwe Timm
      Red Tree, translated by Peter Tegel

      Unterm Schutt, Inge Müller
      Under the Rubble, translated by Matthew Griffin

      Die Geschichte, Martin Mosebach
      The Story, translated by Scott G. Williams

      Froschgesang, Jürg Acklin
      The Song of the Frogs, translated by Ingrid Lansford