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Article: So noch nicht gezeigt: Uwe Johnson zum Gedenken, London 2004.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2008
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So noch nicht gezeigt: Uwe Johnsonzum Gedenken, London 2004. Ed. by Ulrich Fries and others. (Johnson-Studien, 7) Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2006. 377 pp. 956.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-525-20946-2.
In November 1984 Uwe Johnson, for the previous ten years resident in Kent, was due to speak at the German School in Richmond; he died in February that year and the reading was replaced with a memorial event attended by Gunter Grass and Siegfried Unseld, among many others. In 1994, which also saw the launch of the Johnson Jahrbuch, Colin Riordan and Ulrich Fries hosted a Johnson conference at the Institute of Germanic Studies, London; ten years later both returned to ...