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The German joker Tyll Ulenspiegel. Anne McElvoy with best-selling novelist Daniel Kehlmann plus Prof Karen Leeder who has been looking at changing versions of the Dresden bombing.

Daniel Kehlmann's new book is called Tyll, translated by Ross Benjamin. A Netflix TV series has been commissioned. His book Measuring The World about mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt became the world's second best-selling novel in 2006.
Professor Karen Leeder teaches at the University of Oxford. She has translated Porzellan: Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt by Durs Gr眉nbein, coming out as Durs Gr眉nbein, Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City and has been reading a new history of Dresden by Sinclair Mackay called Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness.
You can hear her contributing to a discussion on Radio 3's The Verb about German poetry after the Fall of the Berlin Wall /programmes/m000b7x0

You can find Anne McElvoy talking to Susan Neimann about tolerance, censorship and free speech and lessons from German history
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to novelists Florian Huber and Sophie Hardach about New angles on post war German history /programmes/m0006sjx
to Neil McGregor about Germany /programmes/b079mcgf

Dr Tom Smith lectures in German at the University of St Andrews. Dr Dina Rezk lectures on Middle East History at the University of Reading. They are both New Generation Thinkers on the scheme run by the 大象传媒 in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to share their research on radio. You can find more examples of their work on the Free Thinking programme website.

Producer: Paula McGinley