I honestly don't know how anyone could give this less than 5 stars. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. There is a great deal going on in this work for it being such a small book. In fact he decided about mice he must code how they react on different events, e.g. Katz und Maus – backstage kulturblog Wie wird Schule im Zusammenhang mit den Ritterkreuzreden dargestellt? Katz und Maus (David Hunter #4.5) by Simon Beckett Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Really, it is more the story of an adolescence in the shadow of the Nazi regime, and how the regime shapes what would be an otherwise unremarkable teenage boy's life of hanging out at the beach and exploring old shipwrecks. I kept waiting for the story to lead to something, but sadly, it did not build to anything. Cat and Mouse's plot is focused on two young boys, Mahlke & Pilenz, living in war-era Danzig. Ostensibly set in the same world as The Tin Drum, although the little boy with the drum and the piercing shrieks barely makes an appearance. Gunter Grass never fails to impress. This inconsistency extends beyond the central 'conflict', and robs the story of its momentum. It shows a different side of the war, where the war is relatively far off, intruding into the lives of the boys in the story through sunken military vessels and worries about volunteering for military training and the constant possibility of losing a loved one who is off fighting. I need not have been! Mahlke is an awkward youth with an enormously large Adam's apple. Katz und Maus is a great Java simulation of two animal species, cats and mice. “— aus dem Märchen Der Eisenhans Katz und Maus ist die achtzehnte Folge der ersten Staffel und die achtzehnte Folge von Grimm. Its the second book of his Danzig trilogy. 'I, Pilenz - what has my first name got to do with it - formerly an altar boy dreaming of every imaginable future, now the parish hall secretary, just can't let magic alone,' he says. Without fathers, these lads run wild, including exploration of a sunken Polish barge in the harbor, where proving one’s mettle in diving and discovery is where the spindly Mahlke first gains the respect of his peers. This is the middle book in Grass' Weimar trilogy, and as such, it is an unusual middle child. The narrator Pilenz "alone could be termed his friend, if it were possible to be friends with Mahlke" (p. 78); much of Pilenz's narration addresses Mahlke directly by means of second-person narration. The anthropomorphism and metaphorical embodiment of gross social forces is common in Grass's work; here the sentence "It was a young cat, but no kitten" describes the German state in the 1940s — young but by no means innocent (p. 5). Sie wurde am 20. I have much to learn. It is about Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a father. This author captures my imagination like few others, fueled in part by my fascination of what (the hell) really happened in Germany that enabled the rise of 1930s Nazism in a modern European state. Die streng komponierte Novelle 'Katz und Maus' überraschte 1961 die Kritiker: Grass, als dessen Markenzeichen seit der 'Blechtrommel' die kaum zu bändigende Fülle galt, zeigte sich als Meister der kleinen Form, der literarischen Kammermusik. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Achingly beautiful and haunting. It is the time of war and Joachim Mahlke like Oscar Matzerath fails to come into terms with it. The story is set in Danzig (Gdańsk) around the time of the Second World War and Nazi rule. Ein, Zwei, Drei . Einleitung 1. Mahlkes Adamsapfel 3. There is also disunity about whether Mahlke is addressed in the second- or third-person, with Grass sometimes changing the form of address within a single sentence, possibly indicating the narrator's inability to remove his own emotions and feelings of guilt from an objective account of Mahlke. If you're looking for a book as good as The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) in Grass' arsenal, you won't find it. Die streng komponierte Novelle 'Katz und Maus' überraschte 1961 die Kritiker: Grass, als dessen Markenzeichen seit der 'Blechtrommel' die kaum zu bändigende Fülle galt, zeigte sich als Meister der kleinen Form, der literarischen Kammermusik. Its a simple enough story of a boy, Mahlke, who grows up in Danzing and goes to WWII. It is about Joachim Mahlke, an alienated only child without a father. Nowhere as magical as The Tin Drum, it is still a story that has an other-worldly quality to it, because the principal characters are schoolboys growing in Weimar Germany. Mahlke explores the shipwreck by diving through a hatch, and with his ever-present screwdriver salvages various items (information plaques, objects left behind by the crew, and even a gramophone) to sell or collect for himself. I have to believe that Doer read this book and de. Enno Stahl: Für die Katz und wider die Maus.Pohlands Film nach Grass.Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940426-99-4. I first read Cat and Mouse without the benefit of having read The Tin Drum beforehand, and I missed a lot. . Weblinks. Pilenz, the narrator, revisits places of his WWII childhood in Nazi Germany, going through memories regarding his relationship to Mahlke, an old "friend" of his. Wistful, emotionally-gripping, vividly described, no excessive ornamentation, this book is a wonderful little gem. Katz und Maus in der Internet Movie Database (englisch) This game is a bit similar to the game Mother … His greatest treasure. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published “Perhaps if I rubbed my typewriter superficially with onion juice, it might communicate an intimation of the onion smell which in those years contaminated Germany, West Prussia and Langfuhr, Osterzeile as well as Westerzeile, preventing the smell of corpses from taking over completely”, If you're looking for a book as good as The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) in Grass' arsenal, you won't find it. If Germans were the ones known for magical realism, I think Cat and Mouse would kind of define the genre--dead pan, literal, and packed with tall tale-ish exageration more than pure and unbelievable magic. Nowhere as magical as The Tin Drum, it is still a story that has an other-worldly quality to it, because the principal characters are schoolboys growing in Weimar Germany. In fact, I argue that its overall impact is greater, as is the book as a piece of art unto itself. It was so young a cat, and Mahlke's whatsis was so active — in any case the cat leapt at Mahlke's throat; or one of us caught the cat and held it up to Mahlke's neck; or I ... seized the cat and showed it Mahlke's mouse; and Joachim Mahlke let out a yell, but suffered only slight scratches. Nach einer langen und wechselvollen Geschichte befindet sich die Burg Katz heute in Privatbesitz und ist vom Publikumsverkehr ausgeschlossen. I read this book in German and I simply do not like it. Katz und Maus Das Bertelsmann Handlexikon von 1975 definierte den Begriff „Ziegel“ als „ein aus Lehm, Ton oder tonigen Massen geformter und gebrannter künstlicher Stein “. But, alas, the boys are poor and fatherless, and cannot prevent being pulled into the all consuming war effort: They use the priest as a wedge. Thema: Günter Grass „Katz und Maus“ – Charakterisierung der Hauptfiguren TMD: 35933 Kurzvorstellung des Materials: Das vorliegende Arbeitsblatt ist eine Charakterisierung der wichtigsten Figuren aus Günter Grass Novelle „Katz und Maus“. Alles was du brauchst für Hund, Katz und Maus! This is the second book in the Danzig Trilogy but other than a couple of cameo appearance of the little drummer, it is not necessary to have read The Tin Drum first in my opinion. - der Schulhof wird mit einem Luftkampf verglichen (S.45 unten - S.46 oben) "Entweder warf ich kein Tor oder gleich neun." Cat and Mouse (German: Katz und Maus) is a 1961 novella by Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum. The brutal account of these kids in Danzig/Gdansk during the Hitler youth and the war is both chilling and poignant. Fertige Katz und Maus Spiele, a Studio on Scratch. - Schule ist der Vorlauf", die Vorbereitung für den Krieg (S.46unten). This is the middle book in Grass' Weimar trilogy, and as such, it is an unusual middle child. The story is told by an unreliable, unnamed narrator, until the 8th chapter when we finally are given the name Pilenz. (One, Two, Three . And sadly, it was the only thing I loved about it. The narrative style — the evasion, self-justification, and eventual, chatty disclosure of the truth — is also characteristic. While the style took some getting used to this is and remains an excellent portrait of German adolescents. Aus der Rückschau des Jahres 1959 erzählt Pilenz vom bewunderten und verachteten Klassenkameraden Mahlke im Danzig der Kriegszeit, den sein übergroßer Adamsapfel zum Außenseiter macht. Front cover of the first original German edition, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cat_and_Mouse_(novella)&oldid=991702194, Articles lacking reliable references from June 2011, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2015, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 December 2020, at 11:24. Read for 1001, BOTM October 2019. Übersicht über die Teile Einleitung Desertion implies treason and in consequence death. Refresh and try again. Is Pilenz writing a confession or is this a game of Cat and Mouse? Katz und Maus. It is the time of war and Joachim Mahlke like Oscar Matzerath fails to come into terms with it. The “great Mahlke”, so dubbed by a fairly unreliable narrator, i. Pilenz never sees Mahlke again. Wir haben, um das Spiel ein bisschen einzugrenzen und um die Tischplatte wenigstens etwas zu schonen, ein Stück Filz als Spielunterlage genommen. The figures in power include the school administration and the church (the polish priest figures prominently); necessary forces because the two buddies have both lost their fathers (we shall get to mothers shortly). The fact that the story takes place during the war provides a rather sinister context, which only becomes apparent slowly during the course of the book, as you begin to realise that the narrator is hiding something, and something rather serio. This led me through a vast array of wikipedia articles, and the history of this place on the Baltic Coast is turbulent and fascinating. The story opens with the description of a cat pouncing on Mahlke's Adam apple. Mahlke is an unusual young boy, who dreams of glory in the Nazi military. The title of this book is an odd obsession with the hero’s prominent Adam’s apple (the “mouse”) and a prank where “cat” was placed on his neck by the narrator (or approached on its own, the story changes throughout the book, hence the unreliability). The portrays a protagonist who is at odds with his time. Unfortunately, although it has Gunter Grass written all over it and the storytelling is very attractive, I just couldn't relate to the book in any way. The story is about The Great Mahlke as he is eventually labeled by his adolescent peer. by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. When it comes to your mystery and thriller reading, do you tend to go for the known culprits or the whodunit? Auch das Ritterkreuz, von dem er sich, der Perversion der Zeit gemäß, Erlösung durch Bedeckung seiner Blöße erhofft, verhilft ihm nicht zum Frieden mit der Welt. Cat and Mouse (Katze und Maus), while lacking the scope and depth of Grass' first novel, makes up for it in intimacy and pathos. Not as good as 'Tin Drum'. He appears later in reference to the "Dusters" as "a three-year old child whom the gang had cherished as a kind of mascot" (p. 86). Beautifully told, grotesquely real, and closer to Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea in tone than anything else. There is some devastating beauty here...That rarest of things: a perfect book. I gave this 4 stars. Die Burg Maus ist teilweise zugänglich. Mahlke is an awkward youth with an enormously large Adam's apple. He was born one of natures tragic clowns, with an adam's apple that was as large as a mouse, but he became a hero and his only aspiration all along had been the chance to give a lecture in the auditorium of his old school, the way one lieutenant colonel gave once, a lecture he had attended. This is the second book in the Danzig Trilogy but other than a couple of cameo appearance of the little drummer, it is not necessary to have read The Tin Drum first in my opinion. The narrator describes the character "The Great Mahlke" from their youth together through to Mahlke's disappearance near the end of the Second World War. (Taste being subjective, I understand that we like what we like.) There did not seem to be a point to the whole story. Katz und Maus = Cat And Mouse (Die Danziger Trilogie = Danzig Trilogy #2), Günter Grass Cat and Mouse, published in Germany in 1961 as Katz und Maus, is a novella by Günter Grass, the second book of the Danzig Trilogy, and the sequel to The Tin Drum. I just love coming to age books. The things Mahlke hangs to cover his neck vary widely, ultimately being the iron cross, that symbol of Nazi identity and accomplishment, after he is conscripted and distinguishes himself in battle (as in all other endeavors, as our hero is intelligent and driven to excellence in all manner). It is the second volume of Grass' Danzig trilogy after The Tin Drummer and a fast but furious read. The narrative in the story is often fairly incoherent. This book is a coming of age story or boys and the bonds they form, just below the radar of their country’s most inauspicious time in history, seeking respite out on the old barge which becomes a type of imaginary fortitude and the final calamitous act of the novel. Even though I remember liking Grass at university, I hadn't touched any of his books since and was almost a little apprehensive. If this book had been published in our modern era, it would have been released as a YA title, since it is set in an elite high school, in German-occupied Poland during WW2. Halt! The story is set in Danzig (Gdańsk) around the time of the Second World War and Nazi rule. I remember reading The Tin Drum years ago and, at the time, I liked it a lot, so I was very looking forward to reading this one. Its the second book of his Danzig trilogy. I felt it gave me the impression of being there - just as terrified and confused and conflicted as those kids were.