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We spoke with Berlin-based translator Lucy Jones about translating Brigitte Reimann's DDR novel Siblings in English for the first time.

A perverse and forbidden relationship is examined but not deeply explored in this visually challenging and provocative German import

14/02/2022 - BERLINALE 2022: An incestuous liaison between an estranged mother and her son duo lets Isabelle Stever reflect on body obsession and breaking taboos as a means of utilising one’s own physicality

12/02/2022 - BERLINALE 2022: The German director takes a considerable risk as she tells this story of the unusual love between a mother and son

14/02/2022 - BERLINALE 2022: An incestuous liaison between an estranged mother and her son duo lets Isabelle Stever reflect on body obsession and breaking taboos as a means of utilising one’s own physicality

12/02/2022 - BERLINALE 2022: The German director takes a considerable risk as she tells this story of the unusual love between a mother and son

12/02/2022 - BERLINALE 2022: The German director takes a considerable risk as she tells this story of the unusual love between a mother and son

When You Roast Your Friends in a Book, and One’s Your Landlord Credit...Alessandra Bruni By Irina Dumitrescu HIGHER GROUND Translated by Lucy Jones Resi is a writer and mother of four in Berlin who has just received her eviction notice. Her friends live together nearby in a building they designed themselves, a cross between commune and architectural showpiece. Resi wrote a book mocking them and their pet project, and now they cannot forgive her. Unfortunately, one of them holds her lease. ...

Family Rules Anke Stellings award-winning novel Higher Ground , translated from German by Lucy Jones, is out tomorrow from Scribe. An examination of class, friendship, and parenthood in contemporary Berlin, the book follows the escalating conflict between Resi, a writer, and her comparatively wealthy circle of friends. In the excerpt below, Resi discovers that her most recent book has alienated her friends—with severe consequences for herself and her family. A letter came for me. It’s ad...

Fiction: Higher Ground by Anke Stelling and three more titles We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Cameron Woodhead Save Normal text size German author Anke Stelling makes her English language debut with Higher Ground – a swingeing screed against the privilege and hypocrisy of those who sell their souls to get ahead. Resi is a writer in her 40s. Pursuing an artistic life with her painter husband, she lives in a rented apartment in Ber...