URSULA DUBA WAS 19 when her parents finally allowed her to leave Germany and visit her aunt in Belgium. The aunt arranged a blind date for her, and it was heaven on Earth. "We were dancing to ...

South Korean poet Kim Hye-soon has won Germany's prestigious International Literature Award for her poetry collection, ...

Like a concept album set loose on the screen, Ralf Schmerberg's "Poem -- I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me" is alternately astonishing, half-mad, right-brain and literal-minded. Film ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone known for repopularizing lieder, the musical settings of mostly German poems from the 18th and 19th centuries, died on Friday at his home in Bavaria ...

For Nazi censors in the 1930s, “Die Lorelei” presented a special problem. One of the best-known German poems, it tells of a maiden who sits on a mountaintop overlooking the Rhine, combing her ...

Subsisters: Selected Poems Uljana Wolf, trans. from the German by Sophie Seita. Belladonna, $18 trade paper (186p) ISBN 978-0-9885399-7-6 ...

TEHRAN Nov. 4 (Mehr News Agency) -- “German Love Songs,” an anthology of 100 German love poems from the Middle Ages to the present translated into Persian, will be published by the Iranian publisher ...

MUNICH (JTA) — A German politician dropped out of his local party race over poems he wrote that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Ulf Dunkel, 49, of the Green Party, published two poems ...