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Gift tips for Christmas: These are the best books of 2021

2021-12-08T17:05:41.793Z


Who has dominated the debates, who perfectly scoffs - and whose work should you read at a snail's pace? The SPIEGEL cultural department recommends the best non-fiction books and novels of the year.


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Judith Hermann:

At home.


S. Fischer;

192 pages;

20 Euros.

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At home: Roman

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It has always been strangely quiet in Judith Hermann's narrative world. Kind of like their stories were set in the center of a storm. The narrator of the novel "At home" ended up in a rough area by the sea, where it actually sometimes storms. She lives alone in a lonely house. She takes a rough farmer as a lover. And she regularly goes into the sea at a rather desolate swimming area. Hermann has mastered the art of the sober since her debut hit "Summer House, Later" in 1998. "What do we need and what can we do without?" . The heroine from »At home«, whose daughter is grown up and far away and whose long-time companion was left behind in Berlin, has a bit of an effectas if an accident had thrown her off course. Nothing bad happened to her, just an apparently lackluster everyday life. When she was young, she was allowed to assist a magician with a famous trick as a maiden to be sawed up, that is the greatest sensation in her memory. In the present, she sometimes visits her brother, a pub owner who is ridiculing himself for clinging to a young lover. The heroine of this wonderfully sad book, which is not entirely free from Weltschmerzkitsch, has long since understood that not even a late love can bring the lost magic of youth back into people's lives.she was allowed to assist a magician with a famous trick as a maiden to be sawed, that is the greatest sensation in her memory. In the present, she sometimes visits her brother, a pub owner who is ridiculing himself for clinging to a young lover. The heroine of this wonderfully sad book, which is not entirely free from Weltschmerzkitsch, has long since understood that not even a late love can bring the lost magic of youth back into people's lives.she was allowed to assist a magician with a famous trick as a maiden to be sawed, that is the greatest sensation in her memory. In the present, she sometimes visits her brother, a pub owner who is ridiculing himself for clinging to a young lover. The heroine of this wonderfully sad book, which is not entirely free from Weltschmerzkitsch, has long since understood that not even a late love can bring the lost magic of youth back into people's lives.The heroine of this wonderfully sad book, which is not entirely free from Weltschmerzkitsch, has long since understood that not even a late love can bring the lost magic of youth back into people's lives.The heroine of this wonderfully sad book, which is not entirely free from Weltschmerzkitsch, has long since understood that not even a late love can bring the lost magic of youth back into people's lives.

Wolfgang Höbel


Dissenting opinions

Sahra Wagenknecht:

The self-righteous.

My counter-program - for common sense and solidarity.

Campus;

345 pages;

24.95 euros.

Anyone looking for the scandal can find it in this book, which has been on the bestseller list for months. It can be found in sentences like this: "Identity politics boils down to directing attention to ever smaller and increasingly bizarre minorities, who each find their identity in some quirk." But you really have to look for it, this scandal. Well-meaning readers will be surprised that their statements have brought left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht to the verge of being excluded from the party. The book is more interesting than the debate about it. For a long time Wagenknecht argues hard, but factually, for her thesis that class is the more important category of discrimination than race and gender; that everyone who is really discriminated against has a bigger problem than language: the conflict of distribution.She skillfully demonstrates the self-assurance of so-called lifestyle linkers.

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Wagenknecht, Sahra

The self-righteous: My counter-program - for community spirit and solidarity

Published by Campus Verlag

Number of pages: 345

Published by Campus Verlag

Number of pages: 345

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Wagenknecht is the proof that intellectuality is a separate category of discrimination. But also for the fact that intellectuality does not necessarily have anything to do with cleverness. It's a way of accessing the world: skeptical, critical, free-thinking, sometimes crazy. And this type is increasingly perceived as presumptuous. Wagenknecht has an opinion on everything and usually a very individual one, be it on identity or climate politics, on immigration or on the globalized economy, on the EU, on digitization. Sometimes she gets lost, just like in the vaccination debate. Sometimes she is right, as in much of this book. Something else is decisive: the opinions that are often called the dissenting ones are the most valuable in a democracy. Who is intellectualinspires and makes society wiser with his sayings, even if they are not always wise themselves. Much would be gained if awareness of this returned to our social debates.

Tobias Becker

Similar and yet completely different

Bernadine Evaristo:

girls, women etc.


Translated from the English by Tanja Handels.


Tropics;

512 pages;

25 euros.

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Girl, woman etc.

Translated by: Tanja Handels

Publisher: Tropen

Number of pages: 512

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Twelve main characters, plus a number of secondary characters, locations from London to Nigeria, a period of several centuries and an experimental punctuation, namely: hardly any points. The novel "Mädchen, Frau etc." does not initially make a very accessible impression. But that is deceptive. The British author Bernadine Evaristo was the first black woman to receive the Booker Prize in 2019. She tells the stories of twelve black women, all of whom have one thing in common, that their families and their lives have experienced racism. How they deal with it, how their lifelines develop, is different for each of them. It is due to Evaristo's linguistic mastery that these figures do not become templates for contemporary identity discourses. In fact, every life is so precisely and individually portrayed,in a rhythmic language that makes the grammar vibrate, so that once you start the novel you don't want to put it down.

Xaver von Cranach

The book for the desert island

Christoph Möllers: Degrees of

freedom.


Suhrkamp;

342 pages;

18 euros.

There are two ways to read and understand "Degrees of Freedom".

One: You read at a snail's pace, pause after every second or third sentence, let the words work and think.

The other: You read as usual, quickly, fluently.

And when you're through, you start over.

And then again.

If you do it differently, you miss too much.

Because this book is so dense, so intense, as clever as hardly any other.

"Degrees of Freedom" is the book for the desert island, if you could only take one book with you.

You can occupy yourself with Möllers' small, large work for a year or more.

The legal scholar thinks about politics from a liberal, more socially liberal perspective.

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Möllers, Christoph

Degrees of freedom: elements of a liberal political mechanism (edition suhrkamp)

Published by Suhrkamp Verlag

Number of pages: 343

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Number of pages: 343

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He does not summarize his thoughts in a linear narrative, but strings together small chapters, often only 20 or 25 lines long: a collection of political aphorisms, a total of 349, Möllers speaks of a "political travel guide".

The quality is not determined by an overarching theory, it is in the individual chapters or sentences, for example these:

"The chance to overdo things is not only the price, but also the reward of freedom."

"But communities are actually dependent on both: robust and over-sensitive egos."

"Majorities are always only organized coalitions of minorities."

One could quote 100 or more sentences from this book.

If only one had the tranquility of a lonely island to ponder this wonderful work.

Dirk Kurbjuweit

Self-thinker

Per Leo:

tears without grief.


Velcro cotta;

272 pages;

20 Euros.

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Tears without grief: According to the culture of remembrance

Published by Klett-Cotta

Number of pages: 272

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It is a characteristic of the new historians' dispute, which has been raging on various platforms for a year and a half, that two different questions keep getting mixed up: the historical question of how the murder of European Jews could come about. And the political question of how the Holocaust was, will, and should be remembered. The author Per Leo is a historian, but in his book "Tears Without Grief" he does not always separate the levels neatly. It is, however, a personal essay in which the confusion is a stylistic feature. Leo has been criticized for this, and it is precisely his quality to submit a record of how perplexed the Nazi crimes can still make you today. How difficult it isTo look at these crimes as a German and to write them down in the history of today's globalized world. That it takes courage to face this in all its contradictions. He is unlikely to have made any friends with it, self-thinking is suspect in all camps. The problem lies more with those who believe that the story will work out in their narrative.

Tobias Rapp

Talkative silence

Eva Menasse:

Dark flower.


Kiwi;

528 pages;

25 euros.

At the center of Eva Menasse's great novel "Dunkelblum" is a double movement.

It is set in a small town in Burgenland, near the border with Hungary, it is the summer of 1989, and on the one hand East Germans are gathering a few kilometers away on the Hungarian side to flee to the west - the Iron Curtain becomes permeable.

On the other hand, young people from Vienna come to the village to repair the Jewish cemetery.

You ask questions about the Nazi past.

There are numerous novels dealing with dealing with Nazi crimes - but seldom has a book captured so precisely how important silence was during the post-war decades.

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Menasse, Eva

Dunkelblum: Roman

Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Number of pages: 528

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Wie es kam, dass eine Friedhofsruhe herrschen konnte, die zwar bedrückend, aber konstitutiv für eine Gesellschaft war, die im Schatten eines der großen Menschheitsverbrechen einfach weitermachte, wie das alles funktionieren konnte. Eva Menasse gelingt es, einen Roman über dieses Schweigen zu schreiben, in dem die ganze Zeit geredet wird, in dem die dunkle Atmosphäre gerade in den Feinheiten der gesprochenen Sprache gespiegelt wird. Für jedes noch so kleine Gefühl findet Menasse die richtigen Worte: das Untertanentum; die Angst, den Gewinn zu verlieren, den man durch Arisierung gemacht hat; die Traurigkeit, die Grausamkeit und die Scham über all das. Ein herausragender Roman über die komplizierte Frage, wie das Leben nach dem Holocaust weitergehen konnte. Tobias Rapp

Das Leben vom Ende her denken

Harald Welzer:

Obituary for myself.


S. Fischer;

288 pages;

22 euros.

He's not feeling well in the spring of 2020. It's not the symptoms of a heart attack, but since he can't think of anything else, he reports to a cardiologist and walks over there in peace.

He cannot imagine that he is in serious danger.

The cardiologist stares in horror at the curves of his EKG and immediately calls the ambulance - Harald Welzer has just had a heart attack.

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Welzer, Harald

Obituary for myself: The culture of quitting

Published by S. FISCHER

Number of pages: 288

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Number of pages: 288

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Es wird noch eine Weile dauern, so schildert es der bekannte Sozialpsychologe in seinem Buch »Nachruf auf mich selbst«, bis er versteht, dass er dem Tod eine Weile näher war als dem Leben. In seinem Buch fragt er sich dann, was daraus folgt, dass wir dazu neigen, die Endlichkeit unseres Lebens zu verdrängen. Er plädiert für eine Kultur des Aufhörens, dafür, eine Sensibilität zu entwickeln, wann alles viel zu viel wird, wann es Zeit wird, etwas zu ändern im eigenen Leben. Der Trick, den er empfiehlt, um bewusster zu leben, ist uralt, er ist auch ein Kerngedanke des Christentums, doch Welzer überträgt ihn verständlich ins Heute: Wer übt, das eigene Leben vom Ende her zu denken, wird achtsamer. Welzer fordert seine Leserinnen und Leser auf, einen Nachruf auf sich selbst zu schreiben, so wie er es auch in seinem Buch tut. Und die Leitfrage soll lauten: Wer will ich gewesen sein? Susanne Beyer

Weit vorgewagt

Zeruya Shalev: Schmerz.
Aus dem Hebräischen von Anne Birkenhauer.
Berlin Verlag; 416 Seiten; 24 Euro.

Anfang November war die Schriftstellerin Zeruya Shalev auf Lesereise in Deutschland, sie stellte ihren Roman »Schicksal« vor. Auf die Frage, ob es sich dabei um eine Reflexion über das Leben in Israel handeln würde, antwortete Shalev: Das weiß ich auch nicht, ich bin nur die Autorin. Erst mal klingt das kokett, aber wer »Schicksal« liest, der wird in den Gedankenstrom der beiden Protagonistinnen Rachel und Atara förmlich hineingesogen, und es erscheint glaubhaft, dass Shalev beim Schreiben dieser Geschichte von der Intensität der Charaktere manchmal selbst hinweggetragen wurde.

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Schmerz: Roman

Verlag: Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch

Übersetzt von: Mirjam Pressler

Seitenzahl: 384

Verlag: Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch

Übersetzt von: Mirjam Pressler

Seitenzahl: 384

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Rachel ist eine über 90-jährige Frau, die in den Vierzigerjahren für die Untergrundorganisation Lechi kämpfte, weil sie glaubte, ihre Utopie eines israelischen Staates lasse sich auf diesem Weg verwirklichen. Atara ist fast 50, Architektin, sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihrer Patchworkfamilie in Haifa. Die beiden Frauen sind verbunden über Ataras Vater, der früher mit Rachel verheiratet war. Nur dass er darüber zeit seines Lebens nie gesprochen hat. Aber es sind nicht nur die familiären Beziehungen, die diese beiden Frauen aneinanderbinden, hinzu kommen die Erfahrungen, als Frau in Israel zu leben, die gemeinsame Situation, Mutter schwieriger Söhne zu sein, und manches mehr. Die emotionale Tiefe, die Shalev-Leser aus ihren früheren Romanen kennen, findet sich auch hier; doch blickt die Autorin in diesem Buch weit über das Private hinaus, auf die politische Situation Israels. Und sie wagt sich auf literarischem Terrain noch weiter vor als bisher, das Unbewusste erhält bei ihr immer mehr Raum. Claudia Voigt

Lässig wie ein Jeanshemd

Frank Schätzing: Was, wenn wir einfach die Welt retten? Handeln in der Klimakrise.
Kiepenheuer&Witsch; 320 Seiten; 20 Euro.

Der Kölner Frank Schätzing ist der deutsche Schriftsteller, der schon mal als Unterwäschemodel posiert hat, ein ehemaliger Werber, der die Selbstbewusstseinspose aus seiner alten in seine neue Branche hinübergerettet hat. »Vielleicht sollten wir weniger Trübsal blasen«, schreibt er in seinem neuesten Buch. »Einfach lachend den Arsch hochkriegen, dem anderen auf die Schulter schlagen und sagen: Let's do it and have fun. Probleme zu lösen kann nämlich auch Spaß machen.«

Ist das der Sound, der die Welt rettet? Es ist jedenfalls ein Sound, mit dem Schätzing auf der Bestsellerliste reüssiert – und wohl auch jeden FDP-Parteitag im Sturm erobern könnte.

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What if we just save the world ?: Acting on the climate crisis

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Number of pages: 336

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Schätzing became famous with the science thriller »The Swarm«.

The book has been translated into 27 languages, the total circulation: 4.5 million.

Schätzing's novels "Limit", "Breaking News" and "The Tyranny of the Butterfly" were also bestsellers.

His latest work is a non-fiction book: “What if we just save the world?

Acting in the climate crisis «.

The title alone is as casual as the denim shirt that Schätzing likes to wear in author photos.

A newspaper critic admitted that after reading it, he would become a Greenpeace member without further ado.

Schätzing never loses his optimism, relies less on renunciation and asceticism, unlike some old-school greens, more on technical science fiction solutions.

He is a doer and motivator, the type of man that men like Christian Lindner like.

"We need a revolution," writes Schätzing, and means "a revolution of confidence", of positive thinking: "Get out of discouragement, ignorance, injustice".

Anyone who rubs their eyes in amazement months after the federal election and is looking for a possible intersection between the Greens and the FDP: In this book they will find it.

Tobias Becker

Nobles before the revolution

Johanna Adorján:

Ciao.


Kiepenheuer & Witsch;

272 pages;

20 Euros.

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Adorjan, Johanna

Ciao: Roman

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Es dürfte länger her sein, dass ein Bäcker einen Roman über das Backen geschrieben hat oder ein Stuckateur eine Geschichte über die Arbeit mit Gips. Das stete Kreisen um das eigene Handwerk ist ein Kennzeichen des Journalismus, eines ziemlich bipolaren Gewerbes, das sich selbst mal hasst und mal liebt, aber doch immer wichtiger findet als Polizei, Feuerwehr und Bundespräsident zusammen. Wenn eine Journalistin einen Journalismusroman schreibt, ist dies also Ausdruck von Normalität – und das in Zeiten des Umbruchs, in denen im Journalismus nicht weniger als eine Welt untergeht. Vorbei sind die herrlichen Tage, in denen Feuilletonredakteure lebten, als wären sie Adelige vor der Revolution. Johanna Adorján erzählt von diesem Epochenbruch mit leichtfüßiger Grausamkeit und spöttischer Anteilnahme. Und so unterscheidet sich dieser schwungvolle Roman am Ende doch in einem von der Branche, um die es geht: Man kann ihn nur lieben.

Sebastian Hammelehle

On the side of the lovers

Florian Illies:

Love in Times of Hate


S. Fischer;

432 pages;

24 euros.

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Lotte Lenya, the singer, was married to Kurt Weill, the composer of the "Threepenny Opera".

Lenya loved Weill, but at some point she divorced him and roamed the hotels and casinos of Europe with a tenor.

She soon cheated on this man with a woman with whom she was on stage in Paris.

After all, she cheated on the lover and the lover with the painter Max Ernst.

But then she boarded a ship from Europe to America with her ex-husband Weill, they went into exile together and, indeed, headed for the port of a new marriage.

This is just one of many love stories that the bestselling author Florian Illies tells in his book "Love in Times of Hate".

Most of the stories take place in the bohemian bohemian of artists and in the years between 1929 and 1939, when the Roaring Twenties came to an end, the Nazis took over and finally the Second World War began.

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Illies, Florian

Love in times of hate: Chronicle of a feeling 1929–1939

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Number of pages: 432

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The pattern of the love story between Lenya and Weill, how they came together and fell apart again and came back together, also provides the dramaturgical pattern of this book: the heroines - be it Erich Kästner, be it Marlene Dietrich, be it Mascha Kaleko - appear, disappear again, make way for new protagonists and reappear.

Die Geschichten, geschöpft aus Tagebüchern, Zeitungsartikeln und Briefen, sind in drängendem Präsenz geschildert, als passierte alles im Hier und Jetzt und vor aller Augen. Es mag zwar Einwände dagegen geben, Geschichte so filmisch zu erzählen, wie Illies es tut – tatsächlich war er ja nicht dabei und kann nicht exakt wissen, was die Helden fühlten, hörten, rochen –, doch in diesem Fall erfüllt diese Technik auch andere Zwecke als den, einen ungeheuren Sog entstehen zu lassen: Der Autor stellt dadurch eine solche Nähe zu seinen Figuren her, dass er den Leserinnen und Lesern die Wertung über deren Leben überlassen kann. Illies selbst hält sich mit Wertungen zurück. Und wegen dieser Nähe kann das Urteil über die Liebenden von damals gar nicht anders ausfallen als freundlich, verzeihend, verständnisvoll – denn die Heutigen sind dem ewig menschlichen Wahnsinn der Liebe ja genauso ausgeliefert wie die Damaligen.

This closeness, in turn, also conveys a political message: Reading on the side of lovers means despising their opponents, the Nazis.

And after reading it, it means to be sensitized against the despisers of the human today.

Susanne Beyer

black or white

Mithu Sanyal:

Identitti.


Carl Hanser;

432 pages;

22 euros.

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Sanyal, Mithu M.

Identitti: Roman

Published by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Number of pages: 432

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Number of pages: 432

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Bei so ziemlich jedem Preis, der für Debütromane vergeben wird, stand dieses Buch 2021 in der engeren Auswahl. Klar: Weil es sich einem Thema widmet, dessen Virulenz tausendundein Feuilletontext und zehnmal so viele Twitterthreads belegen – der Debatte um Identitätspolitik. Dass der Roman »Identitti« die Preise, für die er nominiert war, nicht gewonnen hat, liegt vielleicht auch daran, dass seine Autorin gar nicht wie eine Debütantin wirkt: Mit Sachbüchern über die Vulva und zum Thema Vergewaltigung hat Mithu Sanyal schon viel Medienerfahrung gesammelt. Die kommt ihrem Roman zugute: Virtuos inszeniert sie darin die medialen Mechanismen, die ablaufen, nachdem aufgeflogen ist, dass die gefeierte Uni-Professorin Saraswati gar keine Person of Color, sondern eigentlich weiß ist, Sarah-Vera Thielemann heißt und aus Karlsruhe stammt. Sanyal zitiert nicht nur Theorietexte über Race und Reaktionen auf den realen Fall der US-Aktivistin Rachel Dolezal, sondern auch authentische Messages ihres Social-Media-Umfelds zum fiktiven Romanszenario. Weil die Geschichte um Verrat und Vorurteile konsequent aus Sicht der Studentin Nivedita geschildert wird, Tochter eines indischen Vaters und einer polnischen Mutter, hat sie eine über feuilletonistische Gedankenspiele hinausgehende Dringlichkeit. »Identitti« schafft durch Anleihen am Campusroman oder bei britisch-migrantischer Comedy das Kunststück, dass auch Kenner identitätspolitischer Debatten viel zu lachen haben, ohne dass dadurch die Ernsthaftigkeit der Anliegen geschmälert würde.

Felix Bayer

Source: spiegel

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