An intoxicating book that reads like a ramble through the dark side of Berlin shortly before the Nazis came to power. Erich Kästner had to watch his novel about life in the big city go up in flames.

When most people think of German authors, Goethe, Kafka and Mann are the first to come to mind - but Dresden-born Erich Kästner has also made a huge impact on the German literary scene. You may be ...

A literary anniversary almost entirely unnoticed in the English-speaking world this year was that of Erich Kästner (1899-1974), one of the most delightful and incisive of German humorists and social ...

Nearly 80 years ago, Nazi supporters burned German author Erich Kästner's work as smut. Unlike other condemned writers, he showed up to watch, and refused to leave the country during WWII. But he paid ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter On 10 May 1933, Nazi activists burned piles of "decadent" books on the Opernplatz in Berlin. Many people know about that night of ...

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting the Nazi regime. In May 1945, he described an Austrian village where the ...

Erich Kästner's book "Fabian: Going to the Dogs" has been turned into a movie and can be seen at the current German Film Festival. Leo Kretzenbacher from the University of Melbourne gives us an ...

The last known German veteran of the First World War reportedly died weeks ago in Hanover but — unlike the fanfare accorded to such veterans in other countries — Erich Kastner's death passed almost ...

Erich Kaestner, a German believed to have been the country's last World War I veteran, died Jan. 1 in a nursing home in Cologne at the age of 107, his son said Friday. When France's second-last ...