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Die Entdeckung der Currywurst ist eine Novelle mit Rahmenerzählung von Uwe Timm aus dem Jahr Die Entdeckung der Currywurst ist eine Novelle mit Rahmenerzählung von Uwe Timm aus dem Jahr Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Inhalt; 2 Kritiken. Die Entdeckung der Currywurst ist ein Spielfilm von nach der gleichnamigen Novelle von Uwe Timm unter der Regie von Ulla Wagner mit Barbara Sukowa. Die Entdeckung der Currywurst | Timm, Uwe | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Die Entdeckung der Currywurst«ist eine veröffentlichte Novelle von Uwe Timm. Hauptfigur ist die frühere Imbissbuden-Betreiberin Lena. Buy Die Entdeckung der Currywurst. Großdruck: Novelle by Timm, Uwe (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free. Buy Die Entdeckung der Currywurst: Deutsche Lektüre für das 3. und 4. Lernjahr by Timm, Uwe (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday.
Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Brücker met, seduced and held captive a German deserter in Hamburg, in April, , just before the war's end - that is the tastiest part.
Timm draws gorgeous details from Lena's fine-grained recollections, and the pleasure these provide her and the reader supply the tale's real charm.
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I haven't read the translation but I do feel the need to make absolutely clear that Currywurst is not curried sausage. The Wurst is never curried, it may be served in a curried tomato sauce, or in tomato sauce with a dusting of curry powder on top but the Wurst is uncurried, a plain, traditional Wurst chopped into slices.
I know that translation is the art of failure, but the translator failed too far in this case. For added annoyance towards the end of the novel the author describes the inventi I haven't read the translation but I do feel the need to make absolutely clear that Currywurst is not curried sausage.
For added annoyance towards the end of the novel the author describes the invention of that cheering snack - from which it is absolutely clear that one isn't talking about curried sausage meat.
The thin spring sunshine and that thought brought this novel back to mind since it begins in the dying days of the thousand year Reich with a young service man impressed for rapid training with a panzerfaust.
Various military personnel on leave in Hamburg are instructed to dig holes, sit in them with these anti-tank weapons and instructed to wait until an enemy tank is directly overhead before discharging their ordinance.
Our main character asks the Sergeant instructor how then they get out of the hole. The question goes down about as well as one about Russia at a White House press conference.
The silence proves sufficiently eloquent to remind the character of the joy to be found in life beyond a strict adherence to duty.
At which point the novel is ready to kick off, to eventually terminate in a tour de force cock and bull story of black market trading which leads to the invention of the Currywurst, which emerges as the true hero of Postwar Germany, symbolic of how despite unpromising beginnings, and incompatible ingredients, the end result can be be quite surprising.
And tasty. Fun and fantastic evocation of the rubbleworld of post war Germany. A delectable short novel. View all 15 comments. Uwe Timm, narrating as Uwe Timm, recalls that his first remembered time eating the German dish of curried sausage actually precedes the time of its acknowledged invention in s Berlin.
In this novella, we see him track down the woman who wo manned the food stand of his childhood, now blind and in a retirement home, and she tells him that she is, in fact, the inventor of curried sausage through a looooong meandering story set during WWII, where she falls in love with a deserter while her husband is at war, that ends with the allies defeating the Nazis and liberating the camps, and Germany struggling to right itself in the midst of their collective shame at what they have done to the Jewish people, and the poverty from their collapsed economy.
My mom brought this book back for me as a present while traveling in Europe and shhh, nobody tell her that I didn't like it, because it's one of her favorite books.
I was wondering why I found this in a drawer, covered in dust, and then as I read, I realized that I actually did vaguely remember giving this a try when she first gave it to me years ago and then getting bored and putting it in the drawer.
Sadly, I couldn't get into it this second time, either, although I actually finished this time. I don't know if it's the translation of the work, but the wandering narrative really didn't work for me.
Parts were interesting-- like the food stand woman, Mrs. Brucker, finding empowerment in the absence of her good-looking but domineering husband, and flouting the conventions of the ties-- and you know me, I'm a sucker for food descriptions.
But even though this book is just over pages, it felt like it was 2x longer because of the pacing. And man, is the invention of curried sausage dragged out.
You don't find out how it was invented until literally the last couple pages, and even though Mrs. Brucker kind of tells you several times that it was an accident, it really was an accident and it just feels so contrived and silly that it kind of feels like a cop-out.
I know, I know-- a lot of great inventions were accidents, but still. I was disappointed. The story I was told didn't really feel like it was worth reading about to its conclusion, which makes me sad, because it's my understanding that this is a pretty important literary work in Germany.
View 2 comments. Aug 09, K. Absolutely rated it liked it Recommended to K. Shelves: german , war , core. Curried sausage, anyone? I like chicken curry be it Indian curry or Thai curry.
I especially like it when it is served with nan that Indian unleavened bread and eaten by hands. A gastronomical delight: with the red and green pepper, the aroma of coconut and the thick yellowish sauce But German curry?
Curried sausage, invented in German? That's news to me. Out of necessity, the poor woman mixed whatever ingredients were available and came up with curried sausage.
Sort of necessity creates invention but if the invention is something like this, I would say yes to war haha: But don't get me wrong.
This book is not a recipe book or just a story of the invention. It is about a nation's emotional suffering from the backlash of playing that dreadful part in World War II.
It is about adultery and Nazism. It is about the ubiquitous Currywurst as a symbol of post-war German cultural integration back to the world.
In short, the delightful curry is just used as a metaphor for German's integration to the world that it, in my opinion, betrayed like Lena falling in love to a soldier that deserted the war, Bremer.
The book is entertaining and easy to read and can be a good movie material just like Like Water for Chocolate I think. A quick book read. View all 8 comments.
Feb 12, Friederike Knabe rated it really liked it Shelves: german-lit. A kind of sausage any German has enjoyed in their youth and beyond.
For decades, Lena owned one of the food stalls in downtown Hamburg, and her specialty was "curried sausage". One of the many customers was young Uwe Timm himself.
Even as an adult he returned to her stall whenever he was in Hamburg: hers were the best and most flavourful. Did Lena in fact discover the "curried sausage" that became a standard snack at outdoor stalls all across Germany ever since?
When on one occasion he could not find her he tracked her down to the nursing home. He wanted to know if she was indeed the person who "invented" or discovered the curried sausage for the German market as he always had believed.
And so, in many conversations, interrupted by coffee and cake, and by her counting her knitting pattern, they engage in a dialog about those days and her life in Hamburg when he was a small child.
Timm's fictionalized portrait of Lena Brücker is touching and affecting. He takes his own childhood recollections and what he had learned from and about the real Lena as the basis for this story.
At one level his novella is a very domestic story, an almost daily account of Lena's thoughts and emotions, her efforts to keep herself out of trouble in those last days of the war.
At another level Lena's account interpreted by Timm provides a insightful portrayal of the community life around Lena: people torn by the conflicting political beliefs and messages - surrender or fight to the last.
Suspicious of each other, fearful of neighbours and crude officials, and, yes for some, it meant fear for their lives.
Others managed through complicity and small acts of defiance to unsettle the local authorities.
For Lena, these memories are vivid, but nothing comes close to her domestic situation after she encounters a young soldier, not older than her own son, who she offered shelter during a storm Bremer, the soldier, turns into the other major figure in the story.
He is confronted with two options: obey orders and risk almost certain death or hide and face being discovered as a deserter with the inevitable consequences.
How did Lena "invent" the curry sauce for her sausages? Well, you have to read the book to find out Lena's need to tell her personal story is paramount and so she takes the narrator and the reader on a meandering road through her experiences and emotions during those difficult times, thus delaying the answer to the secret of the curry sausage as long as she can.
I was less convinced by Bremer's character and his behaviour. His story didn't have the same level of cohesion and authenticity as Lena's.
Much more could, of course, have been said about life in Hamburg in April , the deeper impact of the War or the wider political context.
But then, Uwe Timm did write a novella and not a novel. With it, he has opened for us a small window into the reality experienced by a small group of people at a particular moment in time.
While the overall tone is serious and reflective, we also discover lighter moments in the story telling.
For example when Lena goes through many hoops to barter for what she needs for her sausage business These scenes and others illustrate the typical kind of humour: a humour that makes you laugh despite it all the obstacles and more.
I read the book in German and cannot comment on the translation. I was wondering, however, how some of the colloquialisms of words and phrases translate.
In German it gives the story a lively and direct feel, especially in the sections of dialog. View 1 comment.
May 24, Scot rated it it was amazing. Although fairly unknown and relatively obscure in the United States, this novella by Uwe Timm was a best-seller in Germany in the mid s, and it is a remarkable piece of literature.
The translator, Leila Vennewitz, deserves a word of praise too--even in translation this story unfolds in a lyrical, captivating manner. A fellow living in Munich sometimes debates with friends where his favorite German specialty snack, curried sausage, originated, and he maintains it began with a woman who lived i Although fairly unknown and relatively obscure in the United States, this novella by Uwe Timm was a best-seller in Germany in the mid s, and it is a remarkable piece of literature.
A fellow living in Munich sometimes debates with friends where his favorite German specialty snack, curried sausage, originated, and he maintains it began with a woman who lived in his aunt's building in his boyhood home city of Hamburg.
He tracks down that woman, Mrs. Bruecker, in a convalescent home in Hamburg, to discover the story of just how curried sausage came to be, and through the elderly now blind woman's recollections, and the snippets of information he gleams from others who knew her in the s, we learn not only the recipe and origin of the dish, but what it was like for Germans in the closing months of the war in that part of Germany, and how one woman in particular dealt with informers, rationing, the black market, a handsome young deserter, and a philandering husband.
Part of the magic of the story is the way old Bruecker tells the tale in her own good time, often while simultaneously knitting a cheerful sweater, and occasionally stopping to savor a nice piece of German cake.
It is a story of endurance and survival, of coping with defeat and loss and making the most of what you've got when the going gets tough.
It is also a story that confronts evil, passion, betrayal, and unexpected kindnesses, so I give it five stars for being both a fascinating look at Germany from within in the time around and on a larger level, a piece of literature evoking and artistically presenting universal themes and truths.
Nov 21, Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly rated it really liked it. Curried sausage was accidentally invented when love had at last brought the pain it had promised.
It was salvation disguised as food. Who knows where she would have ended up, dead maybe, had she not stumbled, eyes blinded by tears, spilling the curry powder?
Against the backdrop of an ending war they found each other. Their love was illicit, but true nonetheless. Years after, eyes blinded by old age, she remembers everything.
A man in search of the inventor of curried sausage finds her in a nurs Curried sausage was accidentally invented when love had at last brought the pain it had promised.
A man in search of the inventor of curried sausage finds her in a nursing home, eyes blind now because of old age.
It is the origin of a food he seeks, but it was a love of long ago which bubbles forth from the spring of memory that remains as young as she was when she had kept a German soldier inside her apartment, long after the war had ended, trying to give themselves a little more, when everything seemed to be at its end.
Excellent description of not only a very touching romance between an older woman and a young soldier but what the last days of the war and the first few months of peace were like for normal people.
Lena by chance meets a young soldier destined for the last "push" of the war, which inevitably would cost him his life as it did so many others.
She hides him in her flat and they have a short romance. Neither is quite honest, he forgets to mention his wife and child and she - that the war is over wit Excellent description of not only a very touching romance between an older woman and a young soldier but what the last days of the war and the first few months of peace were like for normal people.
Neither is quite honest, he forgets to mention his wife and child and she - that the war is over within days of his arrival at her flat.
It's her last bit of youth, her last love interest and she does intend to tell him soon, but wants to keep him for a little longer.
Lena is a quintessential working women of her time coping first with the war and then with the aftermath. Very good description of life in Hamburg of that time.
Reminds me very much of my grandmother's description of their lives during and after the war. What it meant for ordinary people. And the Currywurst?
No idea if the Lena Brueckner of this story has really invented it, there are many rumours of where it came from and who invented it. I am not sure anybody knows, timing seems to be right.
However if done right, it is delicious. It is the first thing my British children want to eat when they visit Germany. It's comfort food.
It's not healthy, but it hits the spot. And yes, you can make it yourself if you get hold of a good recipe, but it is so much better if you buy "Currywurst mit Pommes" from a simple "Wurstbude", which you find all over Germany, especially on train stations, fun fairs, etc.
I would recommend the book and the Currywurst to anyone. May 12, Thing Two rated it it was amazing Shelves: best-of , favorite-fiction , books-you-must-read-before-you , country-germany , history-wwii.
This novella snuck up on me. Uwe Timm writes a story about an old woman recalling a wartime relationship and how it lead to the invention of the German take-out dish curried sausage.
This story sucked me in until I got to the point I couldn't put it down -- not even for a currywurst! Beautiful, poignant, and powerfully written, this story begs to be heard -- I may read it aloud next time.
Firstly, the invention of curried sausage is not at all what The Invention of Curried Sausage is about. Well OK, it is about that, sort of. He does so by tracking down the owner of a food stall from his childhood, Lena Brückner, now old, blind and living in a nursing home.
She will not answer his curry question directly, and instead tells Timm of her time in Hamburg a Firstly, the invention of curried sausage is not at all what The Invention of Curried Sausage is about.
She will not answer his curry question directly, and instead tells Timm of her time in Hamburg as WWII draws to a close, in particular of her affair with Bremer, a young deserter from the German military.
She takes Bremer in just as Hamburg is falling to the British Army, ostensibly to hide and shelter him, but mostly in reaction to her own selfish issues of abandonment and loneliness.
There are deep undercurrents in this novella: about disassociation, infidelity and lies; about loss and the little things that people do to survive; about fears and suspicion.
It is all quite subtle and carefully woven. I gradually lost interest, in the characters, in their stories, in their lives and eventually, in the invention of curried sausage.
A 3 star for me. Jul 07, Julia rated it really liked it. An odd, charming little German novella. Can't say what made me pick it up, but it was a tasty morsel.
Aug 08, Kristel rated it really liked it Shelves: books , wwii , challenge , historical-fiction , german-literature , germany. The protagonist, a young man who used to eat curried sausage at Mrs.
Brücker begins a long story which really is the story of her life at the end of WWII. A young naval officer, Bremer, is assigned to go to the front line to stop British tanks instead of returning to his map room in Oslo.
He spends the night with Lena. He then decides to go AWOL because he has heard how he might die on the front line as the British are entering Hamburg.
He believes he cannot leave her apartment and Mrs. Brücker does not tell him that the war is over.
She keeps him 27 days. By telling her long story she has in essence taken captive another young man who has had to stay away more days than he anticipated to hear how Lena invented the sausage.
She is a strong woman who managed to survive the war, maintain her own opinions and she was able to use her capitalist ingenuity to become a woman who was able to take care of herself, her children and her grandchild.
There is much to admire about Lena. This reminds me of my German heritage. Another theme might be the power of food. Bremer gains weight in captivity while the Germans are losing weight and the Jewish people are skeletons.
In the end we see Lena an old lady relishing her sweets. The curry is supposed to have antidepressant effects. Bremer loses his taste.
Uwe Timm is a successful German writer. He has won the Jakob-Wassermann prize. The author was an author in residence in to the Washington University in St.
Currywurst is one of those weird results of the post-war era: the most teutonic of foods, the sausage, fried up in Indian curry or rather a European version of it.
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.
Lena's agreement to tell the journalist the story of how she came to invent curried sausage serves as the major plot throughout the novel. Originally published in German in as Die Entdeckung der Currywurst , the book was translated into English by Leila Vennewitz in The narrator believes that a woman whose food stand he went to as a child was the inventor of the German snack food curried sausage.
He seeks out the woman, Lena Brücker, who is now an elderly woman living in a nursing home in Hamburg. The narrator asks Lena to tell him the story of how she invented curried sausage.
She agrees and she begins to tell her story. She introduces Petty Officer Bremer and describes that they met when he bumped into her outside of the cinema in Hamburg.
He was due to be deployed to the front lines the next day. After an airstrike occurred, the two of them went to a public air raid shelter.
After a night of drinking and talking, Lena convinces Bremer to stay and become a deserter instead of likely being killed on the front lines.
In the beginning of the chapter Bremer is faced with a dilemma: he is too afraid to go to fight on the front lines but he is also afraid of being killed if it is found out he deserted the army.
He decides to stay with Lena, a woman whom he just met and was now completely dependent on. Lena then goes to work at a canteen in Hamburg.
She describes to the narrator that an employee there, Holzinger, had been questioned by the Gestapo after allegedly making Nazi broadcasters sick while working in the kitchen at a Reich radio station.
It would turn out that his entire unit had been killed. When Lena is home there is a knock at the door.
She hides Bremer and opens the door for the block air warden, Lammers. Lammers suspected that he heard voices and that Lena was harboring a fugitive in her home.
He eventually leaves, though unconvinced that there is nobody there. After Lammers left, they discussed that Bremer must be quieter when she is at work.
The majority of this chapter follows Bremer becoming accustomed to his new way of life in hiding. When Lena asks if Bremer is married he lies to her and says that he is not.
The creaking of the mattress causes the downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Eckleben, to bang loudly against the ceiling. This creaking furthers the suspicions of the tenants of the building that there is someone besides Lena in the apartment.
The chapter begins with Lena learning that Hitler is dead and that for all intents and purposes, the war is over in Germany.
She is then faced with the dilemma of whether or not to tell Bremer the news because if she tells him that the war is over, then he will leave to return to his family and she would be alone again.
When she gets home she tells him that Hitler is dead but does not mention the war being over. He begins asking questions about the future of the war and by answering them, Lena begins to grow a lie that the war is not over.
A few days later when Lena is returning from work she notices a large crowd outside of her building. She assumes that Bremer is being arrested but upon getting closer she notices a body hanging in the building.
The air raid warden Lammers had committed suicide rather than face the disgrace of losing the power the Nazi regime had given him. Lena worked at a food-rationing office in Hamburg.
She is married to a man named Willi and has children. Lena provides a haven for Werner Bremer in her apartment, keeping him there until after the war concludes.
Despite being married, she falls in love with Bremer. She misleads Bremer about the events of the war to keep him in the apartment for a longer period.
She is also forced to deflect suspicious questions from Lammers and Mrs. Eckleben to keep Werner safe from capture. However, her plan fails as she gets in a fight with Bremer and eventually discloses the conclusion of the war, resulting in his departure.
In the novel, it is Lena Brucker that invents Currywurst in post war Hamburg. Lena stumbles upon the recipe by mistake, bartering for different items and mixing various ingredients until she obtains the perfect recipe.
Some years later, an older Lena Brucker tells the story of the Curried Sausage to the narrator of the novel.
Hermann Bremer : A young German naval staff officer that deserts the military rather than serve on the front lines. Bremer stands out because of the Equestrian badge that is pinned on his uniform.
He encounters Lena at the cinema in Hamburg and sleeps with her. Bremer chooses to stay with Lena in her apartment rather than fight on the front lines.
Like Lena, it is revealed that Bremer has a family, a fact he initially chooses not to reveal to Lena.
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Die Entdeckung der Currywurst 1 Die Entdeckung der Currywurst. Donnerstag, Mai , bis Uhr. Als der Krieg in den letzten Zügen liegt, ist Lena Brücker Ende Die Kinder. Lena Brück, über 80, lebt im Altersheim. Von ihr heißt es, sie habe die Currywurst erfunden. Der Erzähler dieser Novelle besucht sie, um Näheres zu erfahren. Er entwickelt die Idee, dass die Curry-Wurst hier in Hamburg und genau von dieser Frau erfunden worden sei und macht sich auf eine Entdeckungsreise in die. Die Novelle Die Entdeckung der Currywurst, erschienen, ist ebenfalls in diesen Zusammenhang einzuordnen. Die Geschichte von Lena Brücker, die in. Hermann Bremer Wolfgang Böck My mom Molinee Green this 23.05 back for me as a present while traveling in Europe and shhh, nobody tell her that I didn't like it, because it's one of her favorite books. Optimaal gebruik maken van Scholieren. Los Angeles Times : 3. Wil jij ook met je studie bijdragen aan een betere wereld? Well, you have to read the book to find out The curry is supposed to have antidepressant Trailer Schnick Schnack Schnuck.Optimaal gebruik maken van Scholieren. Maak direct een profiel aan. Het is gratis en je krijgt: Maak direct een profiel aan!
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Uwe Timm. Literatuur zonder grenzen. Eerste uitgave. Geschikt voor. Oorspronkelijke taal. Sie behauptet, die Deutschen würden jetzt mit den Briten und Amerikanern gegen die Russen kämpfen.
In der Folgezeit errichtet sie ein Lügengebäude aus angeblichen Kriegsgeschehnissen und neuen Frontverläufen. Das kaputte Radio in der Wohnung kommt ihr dabei gelegen.
Erst spät begreift Lena, dass sie ihren Geliebten um sein Leben betrügt. Mai im Radio, nachdem am Vortag die Stadt kampflos von den Briten eingenommen wurde.
Die Briten kontrollieren von nun an alle Bereiche des öffentlichen Lebens. Die englische Militärpolizei muss sich dabei anfangs von deutscher Polizei einweisen lassen, um die Stadt kennenzulernen.
So sieht Bremer eines Tages vom Fenster seines Verstecks aus einen Militärjeep mit deutschen und englischen Polizisten.
Dies lässt bei ihm keinen Zweifel mehr an Lenas Geschichte: Briten und Deutsche kämpfen jetzt gemeinsam gegen die Russen.
In den Zeitungen erscheinen Fotos aus den befreiten Konzentrationslagern. Lena ist erschüttert. Abends erzählt sie Hermann, sie habe gehört, in Lagern seien Millionen Juden vergast worden.
Seine Antwort, das sei eine Lüge, bringt sie aus der Fassung. Verzweifelt schreit sie ihm die Wahrheit über den verlorenen Krieg und die Verbrechen der Deutschen ins Gesicht.
Als sie zurückkehrt, ist Hermann verschwunden. Lenas Mann kehrt aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft heim. Er ist noch immer derselbe unzuverlässige Frauenheld wie vor dem Krieg.
Lena setzt ihn vor die Tür. Die Lebensmittel dafür beschafft sie durch abenteuerliche Geschäfte auf dem Schwarzmarkt. Bei einem Transport gehen Ketchupflaschen zu Bruch.
Ihr Inhalt vermischt sich zufällig mit Currypulver. Lena findet die Mischung köstlich. Eines Tages steht Hermann an Lenas Stand.
Beide erkennen sich sofort, zeigen es aber nicht. Hermann isst eine Currywurst und erhält in diesem Moment seinen Geschmackssinn zurück.
Zum Abschied werfen die beiden sich einen Blick zu. Sie kann die Stätten ihres Lebens zwar kaum noch sehen, aber hören, fühlen und riechen.
My mom brought this book back for me as a present while traveling in Europe and shhh, nobody tell her that I didn't like it, because it's one of her favorite books.
I was wondering why I found this in a drawer, covered in dust, and then as I read, I realized that I actually did vaguely remember giving this a try when she first gave it to me years ago and then getting bored and putting it in the drawer.
Sadly, I couldn't get into it this second time, either, although I actually finished this time. I don't know if it's the translation of the work, but the wandering narrative really didn't work for me.
Parts were interesting-- like the food stand woman, Mrs. Brucker, finding empowerment in the absence of her good-looking but domineering husband, and flouting the conventions of the ties-- and you know me, I'm a sucker for food descriptions.
But even though this book is just over pages, it felt like it was 2x longer because of the pacing. And man, is the invention of curried sausage dragged out.
You don't find out how it was invented until literally the last couple pages, and even though Mrs. Brucker kind of tells you several times that it was an accident, it really was an accident and it just feels so contrived and silly that it kind of feels like a cop-out.
I know, I know-- a lot of great inventions were accidents, but still. I was disappointed. The story I was told didn't really feel like it was worth reading about to its conclusion, which makes me sad, because it's my understanding that this is a pretty important literary work in Germany.
View 2 comments. Aug 09, K. Absolutely rated it liked it Recommended to K. Shelves: german , war , core. Curried sausage, anyone?
I like chicken curry be it Indian curry or Thai curry. I especially like it when it is served with nan that Indian unleavened bread and eaten by hands.
A gastronomical delight: with the red and green pepper, the aroma of coconut and the thick yellowish sauce But German curry?
Curried sausage, invented in German? That's news to me. Out of necessity, the poor woman mixed whatever ingredients were available and came up with curried sausage.
Sort of necessity creates invention but if the invention is something like this, I would say yes to war haha: But don't get me wrong.
This book is not a recipe book or just a story of the invention. It is about a nation's emotional suffering from the backlash of playing that dreadful part in World War II.
It is about adultery and Nazism. It is about the ubiquitous Currywurst as a symbol of post-war German cultural integration back to the world.
In short, the delightful curry is just used as a metaphor for German's integration to the world that it, in my opinion, betrayed like Lena falling in love to a soldier that deserted the war, Bremer.
The book is entertaining and easy to read and can be a good movie material just like Like Water for Chocolate I think. A quick book read. View all 8 comments.
Feb 12, Friederike Knabe rated it really liked it Shelves: german-lit. A kind of sausage any German has enjoyed in their youth and beyond.
For decades, Lena owned one of the food stalls in downtown Hamburg, and her specialty was "curried sausage". One of the many customers was young Uwe Timm himself.
Even as an adult he returned to her stall whenever he was in Hamburg: hers were the best and most flavourful. Did Lena in fact discover the "curried sausage" that became a standard snack at outdoor stalls all across Germany ever since?
When on one occasion he could not find her he tracked her down to the nursing home. He wanted to know if she was indeed the person who "invented" or discovered the curried sausage for the German market as he always had believed.
And so, in many conversations, interrupted by coffee and cake, and by her counting her knitting pattern, they engage in a dialog about those days and her life in Hamburg when he was a small child.
Timm's fictionalized portrait of Lena Brücker is touching and affecting. He takes his own childhood recollections and what he had learned from and about the real Lena as the basis for this story.
At one level his novella is a very domestic story, an almost daily account of Lena's thoughts and emotions, her efforts to keep herself out of trouble in those last days of the war.
At another level Lena's account interpreted by Timm provides a insightful portrayal of the community life around Lena: people torn by the conflicting political beliefs and messages - surrender or fight to the last.
Suspicious of each other, fearful of neighbours and crude officials, and, yes for some, it meant fear for their lives.
Others managed through complicity and small acts of defiance to unsettle the local authorities. For Lena, these memories are vivid, but nothing comes close to her domestic situation after she encounters a young soldier, not older than her own son, who she offered shelter during a storm Bremer, the soldier, turns into the other major figure in the story.
He is confronted with two options: obey orders and risk almost certain death or hide and face being discovered as a deserter with the inevitable consequences.
How did Lena "invent" the curry sauce for her sausages? Well, you have to read the book to find out Lena's need to tell her personal story is paramount and so she takes the narrator and the reader on a meandering road through her experiences and emotions during those difficult times, thus delaying the answer to the secret of the curry sausage as long as she can.
I was less convinced by Bremer's character and his behaviour. His story didn't have the same level of cohesion and authenticity as Lena's.
Much more could, of course, have been said about life in Hamburg in April , the deeper impact of the War or the wider political context.
But then, Uwe Timm did write a novella and not a novel. With it, he has opened for us a small window into the reality experienced by a small group of people at a particular moment in time.
While the overall tone is serious and reflective, we also discover lighter moments in the story telling. For example when Lena goes through many hoops to barter for what she needs for her sausage business These scenes and others illustrate the typical kind of humour: a humour that makes you laugh despite it all the obstacles and more.
I read the book in German and cannot comment on the translation. I was wondering, however, how some of the colloquialisms of words and phrases translate.
In German it gives the story a lively and direct feel, especially in the sections of dialog. View 1 comment. May 24, Scot rated it it was amazing. Although fairly unknown and relatively obscure in the United States, this novella by Uwe Timm was a best-seller in Germany in the mid s, and it is a remarkable piece of literature.
The translator, Leila Vennewitz, deserves a word of praise too--even in translation this story unfolds in a lyrical, captivating manner.
A fellow living in Munich sometimes debates with friends where his favorite German specialty snack, curried sausage, originated, and he maintains it began with a woman who lived i Although fairly unknown and relatively obscure in the United States, this novella by Uwe Timm was a best-seller in Germany in the mid s, and it is a remarkable piece of literature.
A fellow living in Munich sometimes debates with friends where his favorite German specialty snack, curried sausage, originated, and he maintains it began with a woman who lived in his aunt's building in his boyhood home city of Hamburg.
He tracks down that woman, Mrs. Bruecker, in a convalescent home in Hamburg, to discover the story of just how curried sausage came to be, and through the elderly now blind woman's recollections, and the snippets of information he gleams from others who knew her in the s, we learn not only the recipe and origin of the dish, but what it was like for Germans in the closing months of the war in that part of Germany, and how one woman in particular dealt with informers, rationing, the black market, a handsome young deserter, and a philandering husband.
Part of the magic of the story is the way old Bruecker tells the tale in her own good time, often while simultaneously knitting a cheerful sweater, and occasionally stopping to savor a nice piece of German cake.
It is a story of endurance and survival, of coping with defeat and loss and making the most of what you've got when the going gets tough.
It is also a story that confronts evil, passion, betrayal, and unexpected kindnesses, so I give it five stars for being both a fascinating look at Germany from within in the time around and on a larger level, a piece of literature evoking and artistically presenting universal themes and truths.
Nov 21, Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly rated it really liked it. Curried sausage was accidentally invented when love had at last brought the pain it had promised.
It was salvation disguised as food. Who knows where she would have ended up, dead maybe, had she not stumbled, eyes blinded by tears, spilling the curry powder?
Against the backdrop of an ending war they found each other. Their love was illicit, but true nonetheless. Years after, eyes blinded by old age, she remembers everything.
A man in search of the inventor of curried sausage finds her in a nurs Curried sausage was accidentally invented when love had at last brought the pain it had promised.
A man in search of the inventor of curried sausage finds her in a nursing home, eyes blind now because of old age. It is the origin of a food he seeks, but it was a love of long ago which bubbles forth from the spring of memory that remains as young as she was when she had kept a German soldier inside her apartment, long after the war had ended, trying to give themselves a little more, when everything seemed to be at its end.
Excellent description of not only a very touching romance between an older woman and a young soldier but what the last days of the war and the first few months of peace were like for normal people.
Lena by chance meets a young soldier destined for the last "push" of the war, which inevitably would cost him his life as it did so many others.
She hides him in her flat and they have a short romance. Neither is quite honest, he forgets to mention his wife and child and she - that the war is over wit Excellent description of not only a very touching romance between an older woman and a young soldier but what the last days of the war and the first few months of peace were like for normal people.
Neither is quite honest, he forgets to mention his wife and child and she - that the war is over within days of his arrival at her flat. It's her last bit of youth, her last love interest and she does intend to tell him soon, but wants to keep him for a little longer.
Lena is a quintessential working women of her time coping first with the war and then with the aftermath. Very good description of life in Hamburg of that time.
Reminds me very much of my grandmother's description of their lives during and after the war. What it meant for ordinary people. And the Currywurst?
No idea if the Lena Brueckner of this story has really invented it, there are many rumours of where it came from and who invented it.
I am not sure anybody knows, timing seems to be right. However if done right, it is delicious. It is the first thing my British children want to eat when they visit Germany.
It's comfort food. It's not healthy, but it hits the spot. And yes, you can make it yourself if you get hold of a good recipe, but it is so much better if you buy "Currywurst mit Pommes" from a simple "Wurstbude", which you find all over Germany, especially on train stations, fun fairs, etc.
I would recommend the book and the Currywurst to anyone. May 12, Thing Two rated it it was amazing Shelves: best-of , favorite-fiction , books-you-must-read-before-you , country-germany , history-wwii.
This novella snuck up on me. Uwe Timm writes a story about an old woman recalling a wartime relationship and how it lead to the invention of the German take-out dish curried sausage.
This story sucked me in until I got to the point I couldn't put it down -- not even for a currywurst! Beautiful, poignant, and powerfully written, this story begs to be heard -- I may read it aloud next time.
Firstly, the invention of curried sausage is not at all what The Invention of Curried Sausage is about.
Well OK, it is about that, sort of. He does so by tracking down the owner of a food stall from his childhood, Lena Brückner, now old, blind and living in a nursing home.
She will not answer his curry question directly, and instead tells Timm of her time in Hamburg a Firstly, the invention of curried sausage is not at all what The Invention of Curried Sausage is about.
She will not answer his curry question directly, and instead tells Timm of her time in Hamburg as WWII draws to a close, in particular of her affair with Bremer, a young deserter from the German military.
She takes Bremer in just as Hamburg is falling to the British Army, ostensibly to hide and shelter him, but mostly in reaction to her own selfish issues of abandonment and loneliness.
There are deep undercurrents in this novella: about disassociation, infidelity and lies; about loss and the little things that people do to survive; about fears and suspicion.
It is all quite subtle and carefully woven. I gradually lost interest, in the characters, in their stories, in their lives and eventually, in the invention of curried sausage.
A 3 star for me. Jul 07, Julia rated it really liked it. An odd, charming little German novella. Can't say what made me pick it up, but it was a tasty morsel.
Aug 08, Kristel rated it really liked it Shelves: books , wwii , challenge , historical-fiction , german-literature , germany.
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