The protagonist, a young man who used to eat curried sausage at Mrs. Brücker’s stand sets out to find out how she came to invent curried sausage. He then decides to go AWOL because he has heard how he might die on the front line as the British are entering Hamburg. Not specifically anyways. Beautiful, poignant, and powerfully written, this story begs to be heard -- I may read it aloud next time.The story within the story (double narrator device) is set in Hamburg, Germany at the end of WWII. Dezember 2015 As Timm puts it, it's the sort of food that could only be a hit in a country where grey must occasionally be offset by splats of red. It started turning up in hot dog stands in the 50s and became a staple of German fast food.

Juli 2018 Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. In terms of pure story telling, it's done so well that it's easy to forget that one's reading a book; I totally felt as if I was listening to the story being told.

He visits and asks for the story which she doles out over three weeks of visits. Decades later, Uwe Timm approached his relationship with his father and brother in the critically acclaimed novel In my brother's shadow.“That even in the dark times there are bright moments, and that the darker the times are the brighter those moments seem.” Juni 2016 Kann man lesen, muss man aber nicht. It was salvation disguised as food. Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal.Wir konnten Ihre Stimmabgabe leider nicht speichern.

But it is very well written and I love the end. She hides him in her flat and they have a short romance.

He spends the night with Lena. Reminds me very much of my grandmother's description of their lives during and after the war. Die Erzählung (im Feuilleton auch gerne Novelle genannt) “Die Entdeckung der Currywurst” ist ein als Erlebnisbericht getarnter Schundroman, der auch verfilmt wurde, in dem es explizit um Geschlechtsverkehr mit jüngeren Partnern während des zweiten Weltkriegs geht. Es werden einige Facetten lebensnah angesprochen, die für den Krieg und den Nationalsozialismus kennzeichnend waren. The story is much more, set at the end of WWII and going back between the today of the narrator and the end of the war, Frau Brucker lives in one of the few buildings lefvery whimsical novella on the premise that currywurst which appeared in Germany after WWII was not created in Berlin but in Hamburg. Can we forget that Hamburgers look at Berliners with disdain, and that Berliners think Hamburgers are snobs?

Juni 2014 Schullektüre. Dass es erst der Befreiung durch die Alliierten bedurfte, damit die Currywurst bzw. Der Junge muss an die frische Luft: Meine Kindheit und ich A lovely book that is a joy to read.Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. He travels to Hamburg and begins investigating only to discover that Lena is alive and living in a retirement home there. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. It has never really seemed interesting to me (a story of an older woman who takes in a soldier hiding from being sent to the front and tricks him into staying in hiding with her even after the war ends), but after reading Uwe Timm's novel An interesting, if somewhat difficult, read; not sure if that's because of the translation, a cultural issue, the punctuation and spacing conventions used, or the multiplicity of narrators and time frames...the narrator (Timm?) So just a heads-up, you will not discover the curried sausage recipe until the last few pages, but by then it won't even matter!Die Entdeckung der Currywurst is a book that, as a teacher of German, I feel I should have read long ago since it shows up on so many people's syllabi in upper-level content courses. Verkauf und Bereitstellung durch Audible, ein Amazon Unternehmen Hören Sie Ihre Hörbücher bequem über Ihren Kindle Fire, über die Audible-App für Smartphone und Tablet oder am Computer. Lena Brücker is the heroine of Uwe Timm's 1993 novella, The Invention of Curried Sausage or Die Entdeckung der Currywurst in German. Zugleich weisen sie auf die Absicht des Autors, die Erfindung der Currywurst als einen Triumph der Lebenskunst der sogenannten einfachen Leute über die Not zu inszenieren. Juni 2017 Die Entdeckung der Currywurst (2008) Plot. In der Geschichte geht es um einen Mann, der damals in Hamburg auf dem Großneumarkt regelmäßig Currywurst gegessen hat und jetzt herausfinden will, wie diese entstanden ist. The protagonist, a young man who used to eat curried sausage at Mrs. Brücker’s stand sets out to find out how she came to invent curried sausage. Welcome back. Well, that's this book in a nutshell. She agrees to reveal the accident The narrator of the story is convinced the German street food, curried sausage, was invented in Hamburg by a Mrs. Lena Brucker, earlier than the 1950s Berlin where it was supposedly created.

It was fun to see the way she strung out the story to keep the narrator returning.very whimsical novella on the premise that currywurst which appeared in Germany after WWII was not created in Berlin but in Hamburg. He wants you to believe that it was invented in his native Hamburg (naturally), and not only that, by a woman who lived in his apartment building. He tracks her down in a nursing home to get the insidAn interesting, if somewhat difficult, read; not sure if that's because of the translation, a cultural issue, the punctuation and spacing conventions used, or the multiplicity of narrators and time frames...the narrator (Timm?) I like chicken curry be it Indian curry or Thai curry. Man bekommt so gute EInblicke in die Stimmungslage während dieser Periode, wo der jahrelange Krieg apathisch wahrgenommen wird, man allerdings irgenwie versucht normal zu leben und über die Runden zu kommen. The narrator tracks down Lena Brucker and talks to her over several weeks regarding the origin of currywurst, which was supposed to have been created by Lena in Hamburg, prior to the commonly acceptable origin story of Herta Heuwer in Berlin in 1949.A fictional account of the origin of currywurst in post war Germany.