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The Meeting at Telgte (German: Das Treffen in Telgte) is a 1979 novel by the West German writer Günter Grass. The narrative revolves around a fictional meeting for intellectuals hosted by Simon Dach during the Thirty Years' War.
- Günter Grass
- 1979
Jan 1, 1979 · The peace manifesto of Telgte burns and is lost, illustrating the Baroque era writers' powerlessness in times of political madness, so what can we expect of the generation that comes after the horror of the Holocaust?
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THE MEETING AT TELGTE AN EXCERPT FROM THE NOVEL Gunter Grass Grass's novel is set in May, 1647, just before the signing of the treaties ending the Thirty Years' War. To an imaginary meeting at Telgte, a town in Westphalia known for its miracle-working madonna, come the leading German intellectuals of the day:
It is the story of a meeting of German writers in the town of Telgte, located between Münster and Osnabrück, where negotiations were currently taking place for what became The Treaty of Westphalia, an important foundation of relations between nation-states, till Tony Blair officially rejected it in 2004.
“The Meeting at Telgte”: An Excerpt from the Novel. By Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
Translation of Das Treffen in Telgte. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.
Oct 29, 1990 · As a foil to the resourceful rascal Gelnhausen, Grass introduces the other greatest creative genius of baroque Germany - composer Heinrich Schuetz - into the Telgte 'parliament of fowls' as an uninvited guest.
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- Günter Grass
