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Hans Fallada

July 2017

  • brendan gleeson and emma thompson seated at a waterside cafe in alone in berlin

    Alone in Berlin review – misfiring anti-Nazi drama

    Vincent Perez’s film about subversion in wartime Berlin fails to be lifted by Brendan Gleeson’s stoic protagonist

June 2017

  • Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson

    Strange tale of the anti-Nazi bestseller, the Stasi spies and the missing Gestapo files

    As the film of Alone in Berlin opens, German historians say facts were kept out of Hans Fallada’s original novel

May 2017

  • Grand Hotel at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Hattie Bayton as Tootsie in front of a backdrop based on a work by George Grosz

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Weimar and Nazi Berlin

    From Hans Fallada to Vladimir Nabokov, a novelist recommends fiction from a city in its darkest years

October 2016

  • Hans Fallada

    Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada review – brutal study of postwar Berlin

  • Bomb Damage In Berlin<br>A young woman carries a bucket aas she walks along a street of bomb-damaged buildings, Berlin, Germany, 1945. (Photo by William Vandivert/Time &amp; Life Pictures/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada review – a compelling portrait of postwar Germany

July 2016

  • HANS FALLADA (1893-1947).

    Hans Fallada novel, Nightmare in Berlin, gets first English translation

    Story of married couple contending with a devastated postwar Berlin follows runaway success of Alone in Berlin

February 2016

  • Message movie ... Emma Thompson at the press conference for Alone in Berlin at the Berlin film festival

    Emma Thompson: UK would be 'mad not to' stay in EU

    Alone in Berlin actor says she ‘feels European’ and that she would definitely vote to remain in Europe in the referendum
  • Alone in Berlin film still Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson

    Alone in Berlin review - postcard revolution in the heart of Nazi Germany

    Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson are the married couple who spread wartime subversion in this decently-intended adaptation of Hans Fallada’s novel
  • The Commune by Thomas Vinterberg will be shown at the 66th Berlin film festival

    Ten to watch at the Berlin film festival 2016

    From Danish communes to druggy cops, Bosnian strikers to bolshy New Zealand shepherds, the 66th Berlin film festival – which starts this week – promises to serve up riveting drama from celebrated directors and performers. Here are some of the films we are most looking forward to

April 2015

  • cocktail party

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

October 2014

  • Michael Hofmann

    Reading group
    Michael Hofmann Q&A – as it happened

    Michael Hofmann is an essayist, poet and translator of over 70 books. Answering your questions on countless topics: poetry, writing, the politics of translating, Kafka... read what he had to share

July 2014

  • Joseph Goebbels at an exhibition of 'degenerate art' in Berlin, 1938.

    Hans Fallada's Iron Gustav: a tale of German life delayed by 60 years

    Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle tells of the devastation the first world war on family life, but it had to survive the influence of Nazi and British censors to get here

May 2014

  • Another lost film

    Letters: The novel was an international bestseller and was filmed in Hollywood by Frank Borzage a year later, in a sentimentalised version rejected by Fallada

February 2014

  • West Berlin, 1961

    Top 10s
    Rory MacLean's top 10 Berliners in literature

    Rory MacLean: From Sally Bowles in Goodbye to Berlin to Alec Leamas in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Berlin's literary inhabitants bring the city alive

April 2013

  • Hans Fallada

    Reading group
    Live webchat: Dennis Johnson on Hans Fallada

    The publisher who brought Fallada back to prominence with English readers will be chatting with us on Monday 8 April. Please post your questions now

March 2013

  • Alone in Berlin

    Reading group
    Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort?

    It's unsophisticated in style, but Hans Fallada's story of ordinary people's struggle against the Nazi regime gives us a sense of emotional truth

  • Hans Fallada

    Reading group
    Reading group: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a moral maze we can't resist

    Sam Jordison: This gripping dark thriller invites us to confront Fallada's moral dilemmas – in life as in the book – as if they were our own
  • Hans Fallada

    Reading group
    March's reading group: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

    Our Berlin book will be Hans Fallada's powerful tale depicting one man's struggles with the Nazi regime

March 2012

  • Fruit farmersHIRES

    A Small Circus by Hans Fallada – review

    Hans Fallada's 1931 chaotic comedy of a provincial German town unwittingly reveals a country ripe for Nazism, says Ben Hutchinson

February 2012

  • Language dictionaries

    Books blog
    Are we finally getting the hang of foreign fiction?

    Sam Jordison: The success of Hans Fallada in translation leads me to wonder whether English readers are at last beginning to appreciate writing from the wider world
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