Daniel Kehlmann

Measuring the World

It ranks among the best-selling German novels of the post-war period.

💡 Did you know? The novel has been translated into more than forty languages.

Gauß und Humboldt

One measures the world from his desk, the other travels half the globe to do so.

💡 Did you know? Kehlmann uses reported speech throughout: a striking, comic device.

Tyll

Kehlmann turns the legendary Till Eulenspiegel into a witness of the great war.

💡 Did you know? „Tyll“ was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

as a film

Detlev Buck directed the material in 3D.

💡 Did you know? Kehlmann co-wrote the screenplay himself.

director

Daniel Kehlmann thus grew up surrounded by literature, theatre and film.

💡 Did you know? Kehlmann today also writes for the stage and has penned essays on storytelling.

The Director

It portrays the director Georg Wilhelm Pabst, who returns from Hollywood to Nazi Germany.

💡 Did you know? In it Kehlmann asks how far art may compromise with an unjust regime.

Fame

Nine episodes interlock ingeniously: about mobile phones, doubles and chance.

💡 Did you know? Its subtitle is precisely „A Novel in Nine Stories“.

indirect speech

No dialogue appears directly: everything is reported, which feels both comic and detached.

💡 Did you know? This device became a hallmark of the novel.

Daniel Kehlmann