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Welcome to the features of Issue 25: Spring 2009.


The Swiss Book Prize
Alexandra Kedves sizes up the first year of the Swiss Book Prize, awarded to Zurich author Rolf Lappert at the book fair in Basel.

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NBG interviews Rolf Lappert,
winner of the Swiss Book Prize

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NBG talks to Dani Landolf, managing director of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association
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1989 – A Young Reporter in Berlin
Journalist Daniel Johnson remembers his days as a young reporter in Germany in the late 1980s – and the memorable events in which he played his part.

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Commemorating Joseph Roth
‘It’s only the minutiae of life
that are important.’


By Jon Hughes

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London through Music
Continuing our ‘German and Music’ series, and turning the tables for once, Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the London lives and works of three great German composers whose centenaries occur this year and the British luminary they all so greatly admired.
 
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), George Frederic Handel (1685-1759), Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

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A city listens with rapt attention
28 May – 1 June 2008 saw a new festival of literature in Salzburg. Jochen Jung reports

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David Hare on the journey from novel to film of Bernhard Schlink’s ‘The Reader’
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The Vienna Book Fair makes its successful debut
Thomas Keul reports

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