List of writings by Wolfgang Koeppen
The list of writings by Wolfgang Koeppen is a directory based on the content of Collected Works in six volumes , edited by Marcel Reich-Ranicki in collaboration with Dagmar von Briel and Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1986)
Volume 1: Novels I
- An unhappy love (1934), p. 7
- The wall wavers / The duty (1935/1939), p. 159
- Projection (1983), pp. 161-167
- Proof of first publications p. 421
Volume 2: Novels II
- Pigeons in the grass (1951), p. 11
- The greenhouse (1953), p. 221
- Death in Rome (1954), p. 391
- Proof of first publications p. 581
Volume 3: Narrative prose
- Jugend (1972/1976), p. 7
- A stoker will be great (1928), p. 101
- Joan's Thousand Faces (1933), p. 105
- Crisis (1933), p. 111
- Holstentor (1933), p. 117
- The engagement (1941), p. 125
- Early Morning (1941), p. 131
- Fish That Gasp for Air (1948), p. 139
- Classic Italy (1949), p. 145
- Nicely combed, coiffed thoughts (1956), p. 157
- A coffee house (1965), p. 165
- To myself (1960), p. 169
- The sarcophagus of Phaedra (1968; created: 1950), p. 173
- Melancholia (1968), p. 189
- Anarchy (1969), p. 209
- Fish that gasp for air / rubble or where are we emigrating to (1948/1972), p. 217
- For the first time in Rotterdam (1972), p. 225
- Angst (1974), p. 233
- New York (1976), p. 247
- Morgenrot (1976), p. 253
- Who prepares food for ravens (1978), p. 269
- A beginning and an end (1978), p. 277
- Bless our exit, God, our entrance alike (1979), p. 297
- Was Frieda really no good? (1982), p. 303
- J. Pierpont Morgan, My Name and the Little Girls (1984), p. 311
- Proof of first publications p. 317
Volume 4: Reports and Sketches I.
- After Russia and elsewhere (1958), p. 7
- The Reinfeld moon p. 9
- A shred of bull skin (1956), p. 11
- In the mirror of the canals p. 11
- Mr. Polevoi and his guest p. 102
- Enchanted Forest of the Red Buses (1958), p. 206
- New Roman Cicerone (1957), p. 234
- Landing in Eden p. 274
- Amerikafahrt (1959), p. 277
- Travels to France (1961), p. 467
- Proof of first publications p. 659
Volume 5: Reports and Sketches II
From early years (1926–1933)
- Schund (1926), p. 11
- Potato diggers in Pomerania (1928), p. 13
- Richard Eichberg zörgiebelt (1930), p. 16
- A somersault has to be learned. The University of Variety Stars (1932), p. 18
- Berlin - two steps away. Longing for the romanticism of the cinema brings young people together (1932), p. 21
- Sensation at the gates of Berlin (1932), p. 25
- Reading madness in Berlin? A child of crisis and a saving idea (1932), p. 28
- Sixty pigeons without engagement. Circus on Wittenbergplatz (1932), p. 34
- A lighthouse and a thousand lamps. Greifswalder Oie, a film island in the Baltic Sea (1932), p. 36
- Faradayweg, No. 4. Villa, Factory or Monastery (1932), p. 41
- A submarine in Neubabelsberg. The train leaves and stands (1932), p. 46
- A bobsled in the running (1932), p. 49
- Dionysus. Caught under Friedrichstrasse in a thousand barrels (1932), p. 51
- Poison and drugs under glass. The Livingstones Toothbrush and the Chinese Pharmacy (1932), p. 54
- The Horse (1933), p. 57
- Past the jungle (1933), p. 60
- The first Lülu (1933), p. 62
- The Park of Veitshöchheim (1933), p. 64
- Berlin sends gods into the world (1933), p. 66
- The Saar region as seen from the train (1933), p. 69
- Paris this spring (1933), p. 72
- The desire to get up early in Berlin (1933), p. 79
- O old Berlin glory. Old cabs in old streets (1933), p. 81
- Youth and the Fine Arts (1933), p. 84
- Masuria, August 1914. The destruction of the city of Orteisburg, the Russian flight and the victory of Tannenberg (1933), p. 88
- Neuenkirchen (1933), p. 88
- The most terrible. At the sight of the Sibyls of Michelangelo (1933), p. 98
- Milieu: Rococo (1933), p. 100
- Breakfast at Lehniner Platz (1933), p. 102
- Have sua fata. Berlin Cars and Their Fates (1933), p. 105
- Report on a film. And Gründgens says: The soul ... first the soul (1933), p. 108
Uncertain encounters
- Munich or Die bürgerliche Saturnalien (1959), p. 117
- The Heirs of Salamis or The Serious Greeks (1962), p. 132
- Stern between Wars (1963), p. 154
- A bookseller's customer (1963), p. 160
- Answer to a survey: Has the man played out? (1965), p. 164
- Proportionen der Melancholie (1971), p. 166
- Pledge (1972), p. 181
- Uncertain encounters. Günter Eich on Memory (1973), p. 182
- A Prussian Princess in Bayreuth (1975), p. 186
- A place to desire deeply (1977), p. 197
- The mute in Zurich and Frankfurt (1980), p. 202
- Der Landvogt vom Greifensee (1981), p. 209
- Valhalla and the Margravine Hermitage. Detours to Wagner (1983), p. 212
- Satt von Athen (1980), p. 224
- Doge's Palace (1980), p. 225
On my own behalf
- His creature. Answer to a survey: How do you feel about God? (1951), p. 229
- Die wretten Skribenten (1952), p. 231
- I Live From Writing (1954), p. 236
- How I got there On the creation of the novel “Death in Rome” (1954), p. 242
- Wahn (1960), p. 244
- Answer to a survey: The novel that tells nothing (1960), p. 249
- Detours to the goal. An autobiographical sketch (1961), p. 250
- Speech on the award of the Georg Büchner Prize 1962 (1962), p. 253
- Answer to a survey: the author and his material. On Gottfried Benn: Keep cold (1962), p. 262
- Unfair Annual Report (1965), p. 265
- Think of Ariel and death. Why I Travel (1968), p. 279
- Vom Tisch (1972), p. 283
- Asked about home (1972), p. 302
- Answer to a survey: What are you working on right now? (1973), p. 304
- As a town clerk in Bergen
- Rise of a Town (1974), p. 305
- Bergen-Enkheim September 75 (1978), p. 307
- After nine years (1983), p. 307
- A beautiful time of need (1974), p. 310
- The Born Reader I Think I Am (1975), p. 322
- In the old days, when wishing still helped (1978), p. 330
- When I was at the theater in Würzburg (1978), p. 332
- Märchendank (1979), p. 344
- He writes about me, therefore I am (1980), p. 349
- Only half a truth. Memories of Aladin and an unconscious magic lamp (1980), p. 352
- The completion of a fate. Speech of thanks for the award of the 1982 Cultural Honorary Prize of the City of Munich (1982), p. 357
- Proof of first publications p. 363
Volume 6: Essays and Reviews
From early years (1932–1933)
- The more weak than the strong man. An experiment about Hans Henny Jahnn and his novel “Perrudja” (1932), p. 13
- Novel about speeches. On the second volume of Musil's “Man without Qualities” (1933), p. 19
- Meditations on love. Jose Ortega y Gasset contra Stendhal (1933), p. 23
- Moeller van den Bruck. From “Italian Beauty” to “Prussian Style” to “Third Reich” (1933), p. 26
- Novel and entertainment (1933), p. 34
- Old and new novellas (1933), p. 40
- Stefan George (1933), p. 43
- On the job of the writer (1933), p. 46
- Joseph Conrad (1933), p. 50
- The Joseph novel by Thomas Mann (1933), p. 52
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1933), p. 55
- From Myron's Cow and the Scholar's Ape (1933), p. 57
Portraits of the Masters
- Grimmelshausen or Common with Everyone's Fear (1976), p. 63
- Kleist or The misunderstood Prince of Homburg (1977), p. 71
- Chamisso and Peter Schlemihl (1973), p. 77
- Rumohr and the Spirit of Cooking (1966), p. 87
- Shelley, The Burning Heart (1958), 94
- Heine, a confession (1972), p. 106
- Balzac, the huge spendthrift (1961), p. 108
- Flaubert
- Eine Neugeburt (1963), p. 118
- November (1980), p. 123
- Zola and the Modern Age (1974), p. 128
- Lautreamont, the grandfather of Surrealism (1954), p. 140
- Max Liebermann, the Brandenburg Jew (1961), p. 145
- Oscar Wilde and his portrait (1976), p. 167
- Marcel Proust and the Sum of Sensibility (1957), p. 175
- Gertrude Stein and the Third or Fourth Rose (1961), p. 181
- Karl Kraus and the Torch (1974), p. 187
- Thomas Mann
- The conjuring of the difficult hour (1975), p. 193
- The Conjuring of Love (1980), p. 196
- Robert Musil or A Terrifying Mountains (1980), p. 204
- A happy man / Jack London and his ideal world (1976/1981), p. 207
- Hermann Hesse and the Mission (1977), p. 212
- Robert Walser
- Poetenleben (1978), p. 222
- The poet's dream of the end of the world (1980), p. 229
- Alfred Döblin or The Long Flight (1978), p. 231
- Franz Kafka or one thought, one fear, one heartbeat. (1974), p. 240
- TE Lawrence and Henry Miller or The Little and the Big Rebellion (1955), p. 243
- Henry Miller, The Colossus (1956), p. 250
- Eisenstein and Babel (1974), p. 253
- German Expressionists or Der disobedient Mensch (1976), p. 263
- William Faulkner or The Birth of Tragedy in the Mississippi Marshes (1956), p. 274
- Ernest Hemingway
- The Bull and Death (1957), p. 279
- Truth and Legend (1958), p. 282
- As David before Saul (1961), p. 285
About contemporaries and companions
- And nobody cries after me. To two childhood stories (1954), p. 291
- No life was happy. On Cesare Paveses “Young Moon” (1954), p. 295
- Malcolm Lowry. A portrait of a writer (1955), p. 298
- An outcry against violence. EE Cummings' novel "The Endless Space" (1955), p. 305
- When Poets Travel (1956), p. 308
- The naked are dead. On the novel “Der Hirschpark” by Norman Mailer (1956), p. 312
- Even childhood was no paradise. On Marie Luise Kaschnitz's “The House of Childhood” (1957), p. 315
- Friedo Lampe and Felix Hartlaub (1957), p. 318
- In Search of the Lost Novel (1959), p. 324
- The civilian on the run. Hans Sahls “The Few and the Many” (1960), p. 331
- Hardly read, praised and damned. On Djuna Barnes' “Nachtgewächs” (1960), p. 335
- A Silesian homeland book - but different. “A gentleman from Bolatitz” by August Scholtis (1960), p. 339
- Ghosts, death and the devil. Celine: Wilde Klagen - Schwarz-Bart: Roman der Versöhnung (1960), p. 343
- Erich Franzen
- Gedenkwort (1962), p. 349
- An Enlightenment Attorney (1964), p. 352
- His life - nothing but miracles. Max Tau and the Land He Had to Leave (1962), p. 355
- Birthday greetings to a publisher
- On the occasion of Henry Goverts' 70th birthday (1962), p. 358
- My Goverts. Birthday memories for the 85th (1977), p. 360
- What's new about the New Roman? (1963), p. 363
- Hitler, he stays with us (1966), p. 364
- Obituary for Wolfgang von Einsiedel (1968), p. 373
- Speech to Carl Werner's poems (1971), p. 376
- Talking about suffering in the world. On the death of Arnold Metzger (1974), p. 378
- Alfred Andersch
- Stories from Our Time (1959), p. 381
- The people of Winterspelt (1974), p. 382
- My friend Alfred Andersch (1983), p. 391
- Hermann Kesten
- "Son of Happiness" (1956), p. 397
- In the fight for a bourgeois prejudice (1975), p. 399
- Hermann Kesten, der Freund (1975), p. 404
- The moralist believes in the devil [on the 60th birthday of Peter Weiss] (1976), p. 410
- Oknos (1977), p. 414
- Birthday greetings to Walter Höllerer (1982), p. 416
- Birthday greetings to Walter Jens (1983), p. 417
- Thoughts and remembrance. About Arno Schmidt (1984), p. 418
- He wasn't a brother of the masses. About Uwe Johnson (1984), p. 426
To poems
- Snowy Path - 1467 (1977), p. 433
- Christian Hofmann von Hofmanswaldau: Auf den Mund (1981), p. 435
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I feel happy (1982), p. 438
- Friedrich Schiller: Dithyrambe (1976), p. 441
- Karoline von Günderode: Der Luftschiffer (1980), p. 444
- Friedrich Rückert: Amaryllis (1975), p. 447
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Steppe (1978), p. 450
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Prayer for the lunatic and convicts (1977), p. 453
- Wilhelm Lehmann: Amnestie (1974), p. 456
- Alfred Lichtenstein: Montag auf dem Kasernenhof (1975), p. 458
- Johannes R. Becher: Brecht and Death (1983), p. 461
Miscarriage
- Gods still live in Rome. On three books about the Eternal City (1956), p. 467
- The marriage of Madeleine and Andre Gide (1957), p. 470
- Answer to a survey on the White Paper of the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1960 (1960), p. 475
- Courage and Melancholy of the Jewish Joke (1960), p. 477
- Mecklenburg Protocols. About Hans Axel Holms “Report from a city in the GDR” (1970), p. 480
- The good old days or The Bourgeois Ancestral Gallery (1970), p. 484
- The face without a visor. Hanfstaengl's Pictures of Outstanding People (1974), p. 489
- The witch's great defense. Novel and scientific document at the same time: "La Sortiere" by Jules Michelet (1975), p. 492
- Pompeii, the enchanting catastrophe. Robert Etienne's presentation (1975), p. 496
- Glued to walls and fences. John Heartfield's photomontages (1976), p. 500
- The family, taken seriously. An edifying, terrifying picture book (1976), p. 503
- Peaceful and friendly. Buchheim's Paris photos (1976), p. 506
- The eyes behind the magnifying glass. Gisele Freund and James Joyce p. 509
- Editorial note p. 511
- Proof of first publications p. 515
chronology
Alphabetical listing within the years. The text genre can be determined by the band membership.
1920s-1940s
- Trash (1926)
- A Stoker Gets Great (1928)
- Potato diggers in Pomerania (1928)
- Richard Eichberg hesitant (1930)
- Berlin - two steps away. Longing for romantic cinema brings young people together (1932)
- The more weak than the strong man. An experiment about Hans Henny Jahnn and his novel "Perrudja" (1932)
- Dionysus. Trapped under Friedrichstrasse in a thousand barrels (1932)
- A bobsleigh in the running (1932)
- A lighthouse and a thousand lamps. Greifswalder Oie, a film island in the Baltic Sea (1932)
- A somersault has to be learned. The University of Variety Stars (1932)
- A submarine in Neubabelsberg. The train departs and stops (1932)
- Faradayweg, No. 4. Villa, factory or monastery (1932)
- Poison and drugs under glass. The Livingstones Toothbrush and the Chinese Pharmacy (1932)
- Reading madness in Berlin? A child of crisis and a saving idea (1932)
- Sixty pigeons without engagement. Circus on Wittenbergplatz (1932)
- Sensation at the gates of Berlin (1932)
- Old and New Novellas (1933)
- Past the Jungle (1933)
- Berlin sends gods into the world (1933)
- The horse (1933)
- The Saar as seen from the train (1933)
- The Joseph novel by Thomas Mann (1933)
- The park of Veitshöchheim (1933)
- The first Lülu (1933)
- The most terrible. At the sight of the Sibyls of Michelangelo (1933)
- Youth and the Fine Arts (1933)
- The desire to get up early in Berlin (1933)
- Breakfast at Lehniner Platz (1933)
- Have sua fata. Berlin Cars and Their Fates (1933)
- Holsten Gate (1933)
- Joan's Thousand Faces (1933)
- Joseph Conrad (1933)
- Crisis (1933)
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1933)
- Masuria, August 1914. The destruction of the city of Orteisburg, the Russian flight and the victory of Tannenberg (1933)
- Meditations on love. Jose Ortega y Gasset versus Stendhal (1933)
- Milieu: Rococo (1933)
- Moeller van den Bruck. From "Italian Beauty" to "Prussian Style" to "Third Reich" (1933)
- Neuenkirchen (1933)
- O old Berlin glory. Old cabs in old streets (1933)
- Paris That Spring (1933)
- Report on a film. And Gründgens says: The soul ... first the soul (1933)
- Novel about speeches. To the second volume of Musil's "Man without Qualities" (1933)
- Novel and Entertainment (1933)
- Stefan George (1933)
- The Writer's Profession (1933)
- Of Myron's Cow and the Scholar's Ape (1933)
- An Unhappy Love (1934)
- The wall wavers / duty (1935)
- Early Morning (1941)
- The engagement (1941)
- [as editor] Jakob Littner: "Notes from a hole in the ground" (1948)
- Fish That Gasp for Air (1948)
- Fish that gasp / Debris or where are we going (1948)
- Classic Italy (1949)
1950s
- The sarcophagus of Phaedra (1950)
- His creature. Answer to a survey: How do you feel about God? (1951)
- Pigeons in the Grass (1951)
- The wretched scribes (1952)
- The Greenhouse (1953)
- Death in Rome (1954)
- I live from writing (1954)
- No life was happy. On Cesare Paveses "Young Moon" (1954)
- Lautreamont, the grandfather of surrealism (1954)
- And nobody cries after me. To two childhood stories (1954)
- How I got there On the creation of the novel "Death in Rome" (1954)
- An outcry against violence. EE Cummings' novel "The Endless Space" (1955)
- Malcolm Lowry. A portrait of a writer (1955)
- TE Lawrence and Henry Miller or The Little and the Great Revolt (1955)
- "Son of Happiness" (1956)
- The naked are dead. To the novel "Der Hirschpark" by Norman Mailer (1956)
- A Scrap From Bull Skin (1956)
- Henry Miller, the Colossus (1956)
- Gods still live in Rome. On three books about the Eternal City (1956)
- Well-combed, coiffed thoughts (1956)
- When Poets Travel (1956)
- William Faulkner or The Birth of Tragedy in the Mississippi Marshes (1956)
- Even childhood was no paradise. To Marie Luise Kaschnitz '"The House of Childhood" (1957)
- The Bull and Death (1957)
- The marriage of Madeleine and Andre Gide (1957)
- Friedo Lampe and Felix Hartlaub (1957)
- Marcel Proust and the Sum of Sensitivity (1957)
- New Roman Cicerone (1957)
- To Russia and Elsewhere (1958)
- Shelley the Burning Heart (1958)
- Truth and Legend (1958)
- Magic forest of red buses (1958)
- America trip (1959)
- In Search of the Lost Novel (1959)
- Stories from Our Time (1959)
- Munich or The Bourgeois Saturnalia (1959)
1960s
- To Myself (1960)
- Response to a survey on the White Paper of the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1960 (1960)
- Answer to a survey: The Novel That Tells Nothing (1960)
- The civilian on the run. Hans Sahls "The Few and the Many" (1960)
- A Silesian homeland book - but different. "A gentleman from Bolatitz" by August Scholtis (1960)
- Ghosts, death and the devil. Celine: Wilde Klagen - Black-Beard: Novel of Reconciliation (1960)
- Hardly read, praised and damned. To Djuna Barnes' "Nachtgewächs" (1960)
- Courage and Sadness of the Jewish Joke (1960)
- Delusion (1960)
- Balzac the Mighty Spender (1961)
- Gertrude Stein and the Third or Fourth Rose (1961)
- Max Liebermann, the Brandenburg Jew (1961)
- Trips to France (1961)
- Detours to the goal. An autobiographical sketch (1961)
- Like David Before Saul (1961)
- Answer to a survey: the author and his material. To Gottfried Benn: Keep Cold (1962)
- The Heirs of Salamis or The Serious Greeks. . (1962)
- Commemorative Word (1962)
- Speech on the award of the Georg Büchner Prize 1962 (1962)
- His life - nothing but miracles. Max Tau and the Land He Had to Leave (1962)
- On the occasion of Henry Goverts' 70th birthday (1962)
- A New Birth (1963)
- A Bookseller's Customer (1963)
- Star Between Wars (1963)
- What's new about the New Roman? (1963)
- An Enlightenment Attorney (1964)
- Answer to a survey: Has the man played out? (1965)
- A coffee house (1965)
- Unfair annual report (1965)
- Hitler stays with us (1966)
- Rumohr and the Spirit of Culinary Art (1966)
- Think of Ariel and death. Why I Travel (1968)
- Melancholia (1968)
- Obituary for Wolfgang von Einsiedel (1968)
- Anarchy (1969)
1970s
- The good old days or The Bourgeois Ancestral Gallery (1970)
- Mecklenburg Protocols. About Hans Axel Holms "Report from a city in the GDR" (1970)
- Speech to Carl Werner's poems (1971)
- Proportions of Melancholy (1971)
- [Anthology] Romanisches Café - Narrative Prose (1972)
- Pledge (1972)
- Heine, a Confession (1972)
- Youth (1972)
- Asking About Home (1972)
- Off the Table (1972)
- For the first time in Rotterdam (1972)
- Answer to a survey: What are you working on right now? (1973)
- Chamisso and Peter Schlemihl (1973)
- Uncertain encounters. Günter Eich in memory (1973)
- Fear (1974)
- Rise of a Town (1974)
- The face without a visor. Hanfstaengl's Pictures of Outstanding People (1974)
- The people of Winterspelt (1974)
- A Nice Time of Need (1974)
- Eisenstein and Babel (1974)
- Franz Kafka or one thought, one fear, one heartbeat. (1974)
- Karl Kraus and the Torch (1974)
- Talking about suffering in the world. On the death of Arnold Metzger (1974)
- Wilhelm Lehmann: Amnesty (1974)
- Zola and the Modern Age (1974)
- Alfred Lichtenstein: Monday in the barracks yard (1975)
- The Born Reader I Think I Am (1975)
- The conjuring of the difficult hour (1975)
- The witch's great defense. Novel and scientific document at the same time: "La Sortiere" by Jules Michelet (1975)
- A Prussian Princess in Bayreuth (1975)
- Friedrich Rückert: Amaryllis (1975)
- Hermann Kesten, the friend (1975)
- In the fight for a bourgeois prejudice (1975)
- Pompeii, the enchanting catastrophe. Robert Etienne's representation (1975)
- Glued to walls and fences. John Heartfield's photomontages (1976)
- The moralist believes in the devil [on Peter Weiss's 60th birthday] (1976)
- German Expressionists or The Disobedient Man (1976)
- The family, taken seriously. An edifying, terrifying picture book (1976)
- A Happy Man / Jack London and His Ideal World (1976)
- Peaceful and friendly. Buchheim's Paris photos (1976)
- Friedrich Schiller: Dithyrambe (1976)
- Grimmelshausen or Common with Everyone's Fear (1976)
- Dawn (1976)
- New York (1976)
- Oscar Wilde and his Portrait (1976)
- A place to wish deeply (1977)
- Hermann Hesse and the Mission (1977)
- Kleist or The Misunderstood Prince of Homburg (1977)
- My Goverts. Birthday memories for the 85th (1977)
- Oknos (1977)
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Prayer for the lunatic and convicts (1977)
- Snowy Path - 1467 (1977)
- Alfred Döblin or The Long Escape (1978)
- When I was at the theater in Würzburg (1978)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: The Steppe (1978)
- Bergen-Enkheim September 75 (1978)
- A beginning and an end (1978)
- In the old days when wishing still helped (1978)
- Poet's Life (1978)
- Who Prepares Food for the Ravens (1978)
- Fairy Tale Thanks (1979)
- Bless our exit, God, our entrance alike (1979)
1980s and later
- The Mute in Zurich and Frankfurt (1980)
- The poet's dream of the end of the world (1980)
- The Conjuration of Love (1980)
- Doge's Palace (1980)
- He writes about me, therefore I am (1980)
- Karoline von Günderode: The Airship (1980)
- November (1980)
- Only half a truth. Memories of Aladdin and a passed out magic lamp (1980)
- Robert Musil or A Terrifying Mountains (1980)
- Fed up with Athens (1980)
- [Anthology] The wretched scribblers - essays. Edited by Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1981)
- Christian Hofmann von Hofmanswaldau: On the Mouth (1981)
- The bailiff from Greifensee (1981)
- The completion of a fate. Acceptance speech for the award of the 1982 Cultural Honorary Prize of the City of Munich (1982)
- Birthday greeting to Walter Höllerer (1982)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I feel happy (1982)
- Was Frieda really no good? (1982)
- Birthday greeting to Walter Jens (1983)
- Johannes R. Becher: Brecht and Death (1983)
- My friend Alfred Andersch (1983)
- After nine years (1983)
- Preface (1983)
- Valhalla and the Margravine Hermitage. Detours to Wagner (1983)
- He wasn't a brother of the masses. About Uwe Johnson (1984)
- Thoughts and remembrance. About Arno Schmidt (1984)
- J. Pierpont Morgan, My Name and the Little Girls (1984)
- [Collected work] “Collected works in six volumes”, edited by Marcel Reich-Ranicki in collaboration with Dagmar von Briel and Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1986); Paperback (1990)
- [Anthology] "Fear - Narrative Prose" (1987)
- [Anthology] "Morgenrot - Beginnings of a Novel" (1987)
- "I like being in Venice why" (1994)
- [Anthology] "One who writes" - Conversations and interviews, edited by Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1995)
- [Collected work] "On the imaginary horse - prose from the estate", edited by Alfred Estermann (2005)
- [Anthology] "Works in 16 volumes", edited by Hans-Ulrich Treichel (started in 2006)
Conversations and interviews
Conversations and interviews are not part of Collected Works in Six Volumes , they are therefore published after the 16-volume Works edition, ed. Listed by Hans-Ulrich Treichel: Wolfgang Koeppen Werke, Volume 16: Talks and Interviews , 770 p., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2018. The annual figures relate to the first publication or broadcast.
- Anne Andresen / Hans Georg Brenner: From the lifespan of the Zeitromans (1952), p. 7
- Wolfgang Koeppen: It is important to know each other (1957), p. 16
- Horst Bienek: workshop talk (1962), p. 20
- Horst Krüger: voluntary disclosure (1971), p. 32
- Ekkehart Rudolph: I am very inclined to resign (1971), p. 46
- Christian Linder: My day is my great novel (1972), p. 61
- Christian Linder: Writing as a condition (1972), p. 68
- Angelika Mechtel: The writer works without a network (1972), p. 91
- Peter Faecke: Conversation with the writer Wolfgang Koeppen about his novel “Kaplan in Washington” (1973), p. 95
- Heinz Ludwig Arnold: The world spirit is a writer (1975), p. 98
- Jean-Paul Mauranges: I have nothing against Babylon (1975), p. 137
- Peter Goedel: Conversation with Wolfgang Koeppen in March 1977 (1977), p. 157
- Claus Hebell: Why not into the Rhine? (1980), p. 181
- Jacques Le Rider: Wolfgang Koeppen, Narrator of German Tragedy (1981), p. 193
- Hans Abich: The Years After 1945 - Attempts to walk and think after 12 years of dictatorship (1981), p. 202
- Monika Estermann / Alfred Estermann: I am a person without a life plan (1982), p. 224
- Karl Prümm / Erhard Schütz: The situation was schizophrenic (1983), p. 237
- Günter Jurczyk: Zeit des Steppenwolfs (1983), p. 250
- Hans Langsteiner: The good right to be silent (1984), p. 261
- Manfred Durzak: Survival in the Third Reich (1984), p. 267
- Walter Schmitz: Conversation with Wolfgang Koeppen (1984), p. 279
- Josef Weishaupt: "I live quite lonely" - Wolfgang Koeppen speaks about the writer's loneliness (1984), p. 288
- Günter Kunert: Culture has failed (1985), p. 292
- Hans-Joachim Müller: Conversation with Wolfgang Koeppen (1985), p. 296
- Heinz Dieter Tschörtner: Questions to Wolfgang Koeppen (1985), p. 317
- Peter Goedel: Conversation with Wolfgang Koeppen on October 7 and 8, 1985 (1985), p. 320
- Josef-Hermann Sauter: Conversation with Wolfgang Koeppen (1986), p. 359
- Asta Scheib: Lonely through the years (1986), p. 377
- Hanne Kulessa: Why are you so unhappy, Mr. Koeppen? (1987), p. 384
- Like in an ancient drama: Der Stern spoke to the Munich writer Wolfgang Koeppen (1987), p. 391
- Andreas Friedemann: Through the eyes of the other (1988), p. 395
- Report from Bonn (1988), p. 397
- Jürgen Kolbe / Karl-Heinz Bittel: Doom has threatened since creation (1989), p. 403
- Margit Knapp-Cazzola: The remote places of memory (1989), p. 411
- Volker Wehdeking: The Last of the Lost Years (1989), p. 418
- Hannes Hintermeier: The silent observer no longer intervenes. The Munich writer Wolfgang Koeppen on the upheaval in the GDR (1989), p. 433
- Wilhelm Schwarz: Protocols (1990), p. 436
- Andrea Beu: Interview with Wolfgang Koeppen on June 6, 1990 in Greifswald (1990), p. 447
- Mechthild Curtius: The book is the first and the last version (1991), p. 454
- Andre Müller: I risk the madness (1991), p. 469
- Tanja von Oertzen: An exact idea from the last sentence (1991), p. 478
- Karina Urbach: I dream whole stories (1991), p. 481
- Karl Woisetschläger: I bought a pistol (1991), p. 484
- Marcel Marin: I want to write a book. Das ist alles (1991), p. 497
- Eckart Oehlenschläger: Conversation with Wolfgang Koeppen (1992), p. 509
- Gunnar Müller-Waldeck: The big cities were my home (1993), p. 516
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Without Intention (1994; conversation 1985), p. 524
- Tilman Urbach : Writing is learning to die (1996; conversation 1991), p. 642
- Volker Hage: She never returned my greeting (2006; conversation 1991), p. 652
- Gunnar Müller-Waldeck: Greifswald - a modest and smaller site (2006; conversation 1990), p. 656
- Attachment:
- Preliminary remark p. 675
- Comment p. 676
- Printing proofs p. 722
- Editorial note, p. 765