1st Publication - Berliner Sachen - Contemporary Review
In December 2025, the historical-critical edition of Uwe Johnson's Berliner Sachen will be published in the Rostock Edition. In Johnson-Journal 1, Paul Onasch reviewed this volume for us. The first publication of this, Johnson's only collection of essays, now dates back 50 years, and via the following link you can read a contemporary review of the first edition in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Harald Hartung's review Liegt Berlin nicht in der Uhrzeit? (Isn't Berlin in the Time Zone?) from April 1975 not only offers readers today a little time travel into the literary scene of the 1970s in divided Germany, but also allows a comparison between reading expectations and experiences then and now.