So und nicht anders

For 50 years Günter Kunert has ranked among the most important German poets. Now the time has come to take a closer look at that half century and the writer who witnessed it - with irony and without illusions. Günter Kunert published his first volume of poems at the beginning of the 1950s, and many more have followed. So und nicht anders combines what Kunert regards as the essence of his comprehensive lyricalœuvre with new, unpublished poems that show how he continues to explore German history and thought.

For 50 years Günter Kunert has ranked among the most important German poets. Now the time has come to take a closer look at that half century and the writer who witnessed it - with irony and without illusions. Günter Kunert published his first volume of poems at the beginning of the 1950s, and many more have followed. So und nicht anders combines what Kunert regards as the essence of his comprehensive lyricalœuvre with new, unpublished poems that show how he continues to explore German history and thought.