by Siegfried Lenz · Hoffmann und Campe · tapa dura · ISBN 9783455042276
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«Einstein überquert die Elbe bei Hamburg» is Siegfried Lenz's collection of short stories, published by Hoffmann und Campe in hardcover (310 pages, in German).
The title story starts from a photograph of a ferry on the Elbe: among the passengers are a pregnant woman, a man fleeing a uniformed figure, and an old man with a pipe who could be Einstein. From that image, Lenz builds stories that play with the boundary between reality and fiction, portraying German life, war and the postwar period with his characteristic realism and humor.
The volume brings together thirteen short stories and was originally published in 1975; the work's subtitle is «Erzählungen».
For readers of German short fiction and those interested in twentieth-century German literature that combines realism and historical background.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
