Die hundert besten deutschen Gedichte des Jahrhunderts

Where playwrights fell silent and the novelists seemed perplexed, the poets raised their voices. Marcel Reich-Ranicki presents the hundred best German poems of the twentieth century in this volume. The selection ranges from Ricarda Huch, Stefan George and Else Lasker-Schüler to poets born after the Second World War - such as Ulla Hahn and Durs Grünbein. The collection focuses on Rilke and Benn, Trakl and Celan. But the most strongly represented is the poet whom many consider the classic of modern German poetry: Bertolt Brecht. But the collection also includes underestimated, if not forgotten poets of the century. "I have chosen poems that I like, those that I cherish or admire or even love." Marcel Reich-Ranicki.