Samuel Beckett in Germany

Samuel Beckett’s special brand of post-modernism has long been in a hit in avant garde-loving Germany. It shouldn’t have surprised, then, to read that he spent some of his artistically formative years here. Interested in learning more, I wrote this latest culture story for Deutsche Welle. Though the article is broad-based, my interviewees spoke a lot about a trip that Beckett took through Germany in 1936 — fascinating stuff. James Knowlson’s autobiography “Damned to Fame” has more on it, as do the letters I’ve written about in the piece.

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