Quote ="The All New Chester Wire"Do you rate the film of The Tim Drum?
I've read a fair bit of Boll - not for twenty years or so though. Thinking about it, it's probably dated now given Germany's re-unification.'"
I think it's a good film, but haven't seen it for years. The same director also made a film of Katharine Blum which is very good. Maybe we need an 'O/T-European Cinema'- but would there be any interest?!
I think you might be right about Boll, he was very much of his era. Billiard um halb zehn (Billiards at Half Nine- you might already know that Germans use 'half to' rather than 'half past',hence the strange number) is REALLY dated. But I think Katharina Blum still holds up. There's also some good short stories, in a collection called 'Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa..."- I forget what its English title is, but it's something like "A Wanderer came to Spa..."
If you like German literature, some good stuff in recent years includes Ingo Schulze's 'Simple Stories' and apparently Thomas Brussig's stuff is quite good, but I haven't read any.
Avoid Christa Wolf and Elfriede Jelinek unless you like Stalinist Feminism- I'm still scarred by that!
