Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (July 20, 1934 - February 22, 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar.

Works

• Mutmassungen über Jakob (1959, Presumptions about Jakob)
• Das dritte Buch über Achim (1961, The third book about Achim)
• Translator of Herman Melville's Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1961)
• Translator of Das Nibelungenlied from Middle High German (1961)
• Translator of John Knowles's A Separate Peace (1959) as In diesem Land (1963)
• Karsch, und andere Prosa (1964, Karsch, and other prose)
• Zwei Ansichten (1965 Two opinions)
• Editor of Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti. Buch der Wendungen. Fragmente 1933-1956 (Me-ti: the Book of Changes. Fragments, 1933-1956) (1965)
• Editor of Das neue Fenster, a textbook of German-language readings for foreign students (1967)
• Editor of textbook for the documentary film "A Summer in the City" (1968?)
• Jahrestage. Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl, Volume I (1970, further volumes 1971, 1973, 1983; Anniversary: from the life of Gesine Cresspahl)
• Eine Reise nach Klagenfurt (1974, A trip to Klagenfurt)
• Berliner Sachen, Aufsätze (1975, Berlin things, essays)
• Editor of Max Frisch Stich-Worte (1975, Max Frisch Reference)
• Editor (together with Hans Mayer) of Das Werk von Samuel Beckett. Berliner Colloquium (1975, The work of Samuel Beckett: Berlin Colloquium)
• Von dem Fischer un syner Fru (Of the fisherman and his wife; the German-language title is in dialect): a fairy tale by Philipp Otto Runge with seven pictures by Marcus Behmer, and a retelling and afterword by Uwe Johnson (1976)
• Editor of Verzweigungen. Eine Autobiographie by journalist Margret Boveri (1977, Branchings: an Autobiography)
• "Ein Schiff" ("A Ship") in: Jürgen Habermas (Editor) Stichworte zur "Geistigen Situation der Zeit" (References on "The spiritual situation of the time", Volume 1000 from the publisher Suhrkamp (1979)
• "Ein unergründliches Schiff" ("An unfathomable ship") in: Merkur 33 (1979)
• Skizze eines Verunglückten (Sketch of an accident victim, 1982)
• Begleitumstände. Frankfurter Vorlesungen (1986 -- posthumous; Attendant Circumstances: Frankfurt lectures)
• Ingrid Babendererde. Reifeprüfung 1953 (1992 -- posthumous; Ingrid Babendererde: Final Exam 1953; the "Reifeprüfung" is an examination in German schools, taken at the end of a course of study, and which one must pass to graduate.)