Inspiration, motivation and encouragement – the benefits of writing poems and stories in language learning
Jutta Austin (Adult Community Learning, Colchester) Most of my students learning German are adults and face the usual barriers to their efforts: having lost the biological language learning facility of early childhood and not being surrounded by the language, they...
News and Notes
Colleen Marshman, News and Notes Editor I very much welcome items for inclusion in News and Notes. Please contact me via email: [email protected]. My sincere thanks go to Emily Conley (formerly of Ilford County High School, Barkingside) for her contribution...Three stories from Bernhard Schlink’s Sommerlügen
Geoff Brammall, Stockport     No 44 Autumn 2011 Sommerlügen (2010) is the latest publication by Bernhard Schlink, perhaps best known to the English reading public for his novel Der Vorleser (1995), which was turned into a highly successful film (2009) with Kate...Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn. Warum dieses Buch doch ein Roman ist
Richard Littlejohns (Leicester) Hans Magnus Enzensberger published Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn in 2008, since when it has appeared in paperback and reached the bestseller lists. Now in his eighties, Enzensberger has had a chequered and often controversial career...