On November 9 it will be 25 years to the day that the Berlin Wall came down. Published in English for the first time to coincide with that anniversary is The Tower, a 2008 novel by Uwe Tellkamp, who ...

"I have to justify even being German, to dare to refer to Goethe. Suddenly, you are like a pariah." This is how Uwe Tellkamp speaks at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His is the cultural case of recent years ...

Titles by Marcel Beyer, Peter Handke, Ingo Schulze and Uwe Tellkamp have made it onto the longlist for this year's Deutscher Buchpreis, Germany's equivalent of the Man Booker Prize. The longlist of 20 ...

On November 9 it is 25 years to the day that the Berlin Wall came down. Published in English for the first time to coincide with that anniversary is The Tower, a 2008 novel by Uwe Tellkamp, who grew ...

Saad Haroon, the second funniest man in the world, Author Uwe Tellkamp, Rapper Nimesh Patel, Humans Of New York project, Actor Haluk Bilginer and the global appeal of Dr Who. Show more Saad Haroon has ...

Uwe Tellkamp is an author who was brought up in East Germany. He has used his family's experiences of the country's repressive communist regime as the basis of his prize winning novel called The Tower ...

How do you react when you are forced to see your mother being beaten by a policeman? When Christian witnesses this attack in 1989 he feels like he wants to die. Uwe Tellkamp's 1,000-page novel details ...

German national broadcaster Das Erste will air an adaptation of Uwe Tellkamp’s novel Der Turm (The Tower) as part of its 2012 schedule. The Tower, which won Tellkamp the German Book Prize following ...