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Peter Wortsman

Theater Review: “The Tattooed Man Tells All” — Memories of a Survivor

Peter Wortsman has made a valuable contribution with this play; it is a rare theatrical account about how living through the Holocaust shaped survivors.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Holocuast, Peter Wortsman, Silverthorne Theater Company, The Tattooed Man Tells All

Book Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman

The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Preview, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, fiction-in-translation, Franz Kafka, german, Konundrum, Peter Wortsman, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka

Arts Interview with Peter Wortsman: The German Imagination of Fear

“There is a difference between blood and guts, as celebrated in the current vogue of horror-slasher flicks, and the capacity of the darkest of the Grimms’ tales to pierce the thin skin of civility and mainline the dark caverns of the collective unconscious.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, Peter Wortsman, Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, The Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination

Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

By: Tess Lewis Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Gabriel Levin, German literature, Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, Middle-East, Peter Wortsman, The Dune's Twisted Edge: Journeys in the Levant, Travelers' Tales

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