Ulf Zimmermann

Biographic Data

ID1008686
NAMEUlf Zimmermann
GIVEN NAMESUlf
FAMILY NAMEZimmermann
SIGNATUREZIMMERMANN U
AFFILIATIONSKennesaw State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR46
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Robert MenasseThe Capital by Jamie Bulloch

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2020

    been observed by at least one reviewer of the Portuguese original as well.) Or perhaps this is another angst the book foists upon its readers: watching these characters experience such isolation when in fact they are only faced into separate corners of the same mental space, more a family than they realize. With an aching lyricism and a set of family relations worthy of Faulkner’s darkest, Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water is a book that beg…

  • The Influential Mind

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEPublic Integrity2019References: 1

    With The Influential Mind (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627792653), Tali Sharot aims “to reveal the systematic mistakes we make when we attempt to change minds, as well as to illuminate those

  • The Dead by Christian Kracht

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2019

    pronoun, “you.” “You” thus becomes one of the characters taking action throughout the novel. In this manner, the novel’s structure makes readers complicit in its story and also a part of contemporary Zimbabwe. This practice renders its people familiar enough to become “mourned.” Elisa Cogbill-Seiders University of Nevada, Las Vegas Christian Kracht The Dead Trans. Daniel Bowles. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018. 195 pages. Our hero, the …

  • Wolfgang HilbigThe Females

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2019

    Books in Review The most fascinating element of Kareva’s poetry to me is that it seems haunted by a sense of religion and spirituality with the dark and intense tone of Europe’s Middle Ages. The angels in her poetry come always bearing swords, and an intense power can be felt even in the ether between pages. As Kareva grapples with dark and light, heaven and earth, life and death, speaking and silence, the reader cannot help but feel engrossed by…

  • Heike GeisslerSeasonal Associate

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2019

    Nota Bene James Sturm Off Season Drawn & Quarterly Graphic novelist extraordinaire James Sturm returns with this quiet but turbulent story of a marriage in decay, played out against the backdrop of the 2016 US presidential election and its aftermath. As attentive to its sense of place as to its emotionally guarded characters, Off Season promises an hour of thoughtful reading accompanied by understated but sturdy visual storytelling. Takarabe Tori…

  • You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2018

    Agneta Pleijel Sister and Brother: A Family Story Trans. Harald Hille. Washington, DC. Gallaudet University Press. 2018. 221 pages. Sister and Brother chronicles the lives of Albert and Helena Berg, siblings from an affluent family of musicians in nineteenthcentury Sweden. Albert’s deafness is a blow to his father’s musical aspirations for his son, though Helena develops into a talented vocalist. Over time, Albert grows to become a notable painte…

  • Bricks and Mortar by Katy Derbyshire

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2017

    of ideas depicting everyday life in the Basque Country. In 2011 a constellation of relationships takes shape among a cluster of persons residing in the Martutene district of Donostia (San Sebastián): the haut bourgeois Martin, a Flaubertian novelist who tinkers with his prose “like a cat playing with a dead mouse”; Julia, the mother of an ETA martyr’s teen namesake, Zigor, who left her government job to become Martin’s translator and muse; Abaitu…

  • The Lamentations of Zeno

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2016

    comparisons between the two women are drawn out beautifully. The second half of the book returns to the tensions between Hindus and Muslims. Asha’s granddaughter wants to marry a Pakistani yet her daughter, Priya, refuses to accept the match. The last half, like the first, returns to the binaries in its characters and to similar stories of national tension. Though not a new story, for someone looking to explore Partition literature, Where the Riv…

  • The Sleep of the Righteous

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2016

    At first, Hilbig’s novel can seem impenetrable . The story follows no conventional sense of chronology and relies entirely on the mental meanderings of a bombastic and unreliable narrator in the middle of a profound existential crisis aggravated by a nonstop bender. Pretensions bleed into self-doubts and back again, encounters may simply be fever-dreams, and no character is consistent or capable of categorization when viewed through the heavily f…

  • Imperium

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2015

    as the ending of the fox and raven fable, in which an ant with a violin teams up with an opera-singing human shark and they play havoc together. The author is both an award-winning painter and poet. The vivid details, poetic touches, and allusions in these stories attest to that: Kandinsky, Ensor, Munch, Hoffmann , Goethe, Grimm, Pushkin, Doctor Zhivago, and others. He is currently under nomination for the 2015 Gysbert Japicx Prize for fiction. H…

  • Just Call Me Superhero by Alina Bronsky

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2015

    Fiction Alina Bronsky. Just Call Me Superhero. Tim Mohr, tr. New York. Europa. 2014. isbn 9781609452292 Alina Bronsky’s deftly translated novel is a coming-of-age story as well as one of coming to terms with oneself and the world. Our “superhero” is seventeen-yearold Marek, who had been a handsome boy and the much-admired star of his high-school theater group—until he gets mauled by a Rottweiler. After a number of surgeries and a long stay in the…

  • The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2014

    Jean Echenoz I’m Gone Mark Polizzotti, tr. The New Press Winner of France’s esteemed Prix Goncourt, Jean Echenoz’s I’m Gone follows a struggling art gallery owner who deserts his marriage and career in hopes of making a fortune selling valuable “Paleolithic art.” Bursting with comical prose and insistent on subverting clichéd literary conventions, this fast-moving and unpredictable novel offers a satiric contemplation of contemporary art, lust, a…

  • Roads to Berlin

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2013

    Chad Sweeney Wolf’s Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney Forklift Books The mythical sage Juan Sweeney dances back and forth in time and language in Wolf’s Milk, an inventive poetic fantasy that playfully explores serious themes with a curiosity both delicate and bold. These poems, presented in Spanish and English, draw the reader in for a second look and extended contemplation. C. K. Stead Risk MacLehose Press Accepting a prestigious job as …

  • In Times of Fading Light

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2013

    Antonio Garrido The Corpse Reader Thomas Bunstead, tr. Amazon Crossing Tragedy hits thirteenth-century scholarinvestigator Ci Song, who is dishonored and forced to give up his studies to work as a gravedigger. Antonio Garrido’s character, inspired by Song Ci, the founding father of forensic science, has a passion for truth in the face of deep-rooted allegiances, and his dexterity in examining grisly deaths becomes even more complex with the arriv…

  • Wenn wir Tiere wären by Wilhelm Genazino

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2012

    58 World Literature Today reviews read books is changing. The title refers to an e-reader that is pressed upon Robert Dubois, the head of a Parisian publishing house, in the name of efficiency and modernity. Dubois is a paper-and-ink guy, long devoted to typescripts, mountains of which encumber his office. As he attempts to come to terms with his new e-reader, he recognizes that his profession has skewed his own reading practice. Rarely does he r…

  • Empathy, Ethics, Emotional Labor, and the Ethos of Democracy

    Open AccessUlf ZimmermannARTICLEPublic Administration Review2011References: 8

  • Politics/Administration Harmony in the City of Bach

    Open AccessUlf ZimmermannARTICLEPublic Administration Review2010

  • Feuer brennt nicht by Ralf Rothmann

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    V Ralf Roth mann Feuerbrennt r Ralf Rothmann. Feuer brennt nicht. Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp. 2009. 304 pages. 19.80. isbn 978-3-518 42063-8 In Wolf, theprotagonist from whose perspective Ralf Rothmann's latest novel is told, Rothmann has suc ceeded in creating a clinically per fectportrait of narcissism. Like his creator,Wolf is a writer who has by now, about to turn fifty, become successful enough to live comfort ably fromhis writing.When he h…

  • Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Adichie's work, thatof sexuality. In "JumpingMonkey Hill/' a story set at awriters' workshop justoutside of Cape Town, a group of very differ ent "Africans" are brought together. Partway through the narrative, the workshop leader comments on a piece of creative writing authored by, Adichie tells us, a lesbian Sen egalese woman: "Edward chewed at his pipe thoughtfullybefore he said thathomosexual stories of this sort were not re…

  • Nicht die ganze Wahrheit by Dirk Kurbjuweit

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    I EXPEDITIONS Edward Stone, who, having buried his beloved wife, aims for a rec onciliation with his estranged son; and the expedition party's mixed blood guide, thebeautiful, alluring, and enigmatic Susette. Two other memorable characters that enrich the narrative are Jonah Crawley, a charlatan who early on amusingly dupes Stone; and his fiance, Adele, a teenage "spiritual medium" whose clairvoyance is almost believable. The heart of the story, …

  • This Must Be the Place by Anna Winger

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    ANNA WINGER despite the harsh reality, seeking personal freedom where they can. The plot isstraightforward?the depth and complexity of the novel come from its intertwiningofdetails and its skillful psychological ren dering of the characters. The most compelling strand follows Christian from school (he is seventeen at the beginning of thenovel) to thearmy, where he serves as commander in a tankdivision and is ironicallycaught in the trapof suddenl…

  • Erinnerungen an meinen Porsche by Bodo Kirchhoff

    Ulf ZimmermannARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    1^1 I > I I * I I * I I ^ I I < I I * I HH l 0 I I * I Bodo Kirch hoff. Erinnerungen anmei nen Porsche. Hamburg. Hoffmann & Campe. 2009. 223 pages. 17.95. isbn 978-3-455-40184-4 Daniel Deserno, Bodo Kirchhoff's narrator, is one of the investment bankers who made a fortune in the overblown bubble we have just seen burst so loudly. He was lucky enough to have stashed his cash in various safe havens just before the financial collapse. But his prema …

  • Business Improvement Districts

    Lorlene M Hoyt, Jack W Meek et al.EDITORBOOKBusiness Improvement Districts2008

    Focuses on the role of the business improvement district (BID) as a popular and contemporary tool for urban revitalization. Explores BID origins, theoretical underpinnings, enabling legislation, and organizational issues. Emphasizes BID service provision including advocacy, marketing, sanitation, streetscape improvement, security and transportation, while examining BID performance using such indicators as crime rates, vacancy rates, and retail sa…

  • Business Improvement Districts

    Göktuğ Morçöl, Lorlene Hoyt et al.BOOKBusiness Improvement Districts2008

  • How “Deserving” Are the Most Vulnerable Homeless

    Anne Hicks‐Coolick, Anne Hicks-Coolick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty2007Cited by: 1

    These thoughts on poverty relate to the strengths and needs of shelter programs that lead people who are homeless to self-sufficiency. Demographic data from 4,000 homeless shelter guests over a 4-year period gave evidence that the shelter was an important part of a suburban social service delivery system. It met the short-term needs of many who were homeless. The irony is that the same program developed to help homeless individuals attain self-su…