It's Everyday Absurdity

All Translations

Translations here are sorted by translation date.

2009

• 28

  Raymund Krauleidis:
  Business as usual: Misconnected
  [Originally published November 9, 2009]
  Translation by Sabine Winter published December 17, 2009

• 27

  Christoph Wesemann:
  Oleg and the Mafia
  [Originally published March 20, 2009]
  Translation by Andreas Wagner published March 20, 2009

2007

• 26

  Michael Meyn:
  Thanksgiving at Mike's
  [Originally published November 22, 2007]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published December 14, 2007

• 25

  Elke Schröder:
  Fucking Brown Bread
  [Originally published September 17, 2006]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published September 20, 2007

• 24

  Elke Schröder:
  Nicotine Abuse
  [Originally published April 10, 2007]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published June 17, 2007

• 23

  Michael Meyn:
  Eating Habits
  [Originally published April 2, 2007]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published June 12, 2007

2006

• 22

  Michael Meyn:
  Flawless Body
  [Originally published December 30, 2006]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published December 30, 2006

• 21

  Michael Meyn:
  Fartvergnügen
  [Originally published November 9, 2006]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published November 13, 2006

• 20

  Stefan Schrahe:
  Normal
  [Originally published August 19, 2005]
  Translation by Noel Middleton published September 13, 2006

• 19

  Dominik Baur:
  Small Columns Maintain Friendship (Volume Two in the Trilogy of Two)
  [Originally published June 21, 2006]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published July 21, 2006

• 18

  Magdi Aboul-Kheir:
  A bewildering realization about the state of education. Taking into special consideration German-Russian relations.
  [Originally published May 13, 2006]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published May 28, 2006

• 17

  Michael Meyn:
  The cockroach slipper
  [Originally published April 29, 2006]
  Translation by Michael Meyn published May 01, 2006

• 16

  Stefan Schrahe:
  A Sandwich, please
  [Originally published February 15, 2006]
  Translation by Christa Hanefeld published March 18, 2006

• 15

  Katrin Wiegand:
  Pain
  [Originally published November 8, 2005]
  Translation by Noel Middleton published March 18, 2006

• 14

  Susanne Plath:
  Pearl Harbour, GZSZ and beans with tomato sauce
  [Originally published January 25, 2005]
  Translation by Oliver Morsch published March 18, 2006

• 13

  Antoine Monot, Jr.:
  The Story
  [Originally published February 13, 2006]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published March 18, 2006

• 12

  Magdi Aboul-Kheir:
  Daddy, don't fret
  [Originally published February 25, 2006]
  Translation by Oliver Morsch published March 7, 2006

• 11

  Katrin Wiegand:
  Dear Diary ...
  [Originally published August 22, 2005]
  Translation by Andrea Carson published March 7, 2006

• 10

  Katrin Wiegand:
  Our Garden shall be beautified
  [Originally published September 4, 2005]
  Translation by Andrea Carson published February 21, 2006

• 9

  Meike Juhl:
  The Tragic Story of Fruit and Vegetables in my Life
  [Originally published May 12, 2004]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published January 2, 2006

2005

• 8

  Lutz Kinkel:
  King Ebert in the world of chocolate bar-marketing
  [Originally published July 11, 2005]
  Translation by Ronja Grimm published December 22, 2005

• 7

  Axel Scherm:
  Gosh, Arny!
  [Originally published December 14, 2005]
  Translation by Gebhart Müller-König published December 21, 2005

• 6

  Till Frommann:
  Spider-Man and his exceptional pleasures
  [Originally published April 1, 2003]
  Translation by Ronja Grimm published December 18, 2005

• 5

  Stefan Arenz:
  If at first you don't succeed ...
  [Originally published November 11, 2005]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published December 6, 2005

• 4

  Magdi Aboul-Kheir:
  The Political Coolness of Norbert L. Jackson
  [Originally published January 2, 2005]
  Translation by Sabine Marschner published October 28, 2005

• 3

  Magdi Aboul-Kheir:
  Mahadi and Buddha or, She Likes the Dead
  [Originally published July 30, 2005]
  Translation by Sabine Marschner published October 4, 2005

• 2

  Meike Juhl:
  In Lieu Of Cards ...
  [Originally published August 27, 2005]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published September 13, 2005

• 1

  Guido Grigat:
  My Life in the Eighties and right in the Middle Douglas Adams or
  Throw yourself to the ground – but miss!
  [Originally published May 14, 2001]
  Translation by Elisabeth Carlson published August 20, 2005

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• Elke Schröder's »Fucking Brown Bread«, translated by Michael Meyn
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