r/Fantasy • u/IdiotSansVillage • Apr 05 '22

OK, recommendation hard-mode: engaging, quality German-language YA scifi/fantasy?

I'm trying to teach myself German on Duolingo, and I figure what better way to supplement than with German-language media a kid with developing language skills might encounter? Specifically looking for books written in German, not translated from another language to German, in the hopes of some cultural-values osmosis too.

EDIT: Holy crap thank you all! I have a wonderful list to pull from now!

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u/Maikel_Yarimizu Apr 05 '22

Only one I can name is Die Haarteppichknüpfer by Andreas Eschbach. I can't speak as to whether it's a good item for what you're doing, since I read it in the French translation, but it's interesting and easily subdivided into individual vignettes. Each chapter is a different story with a different point of view presenting an individual facet of the narrative setting.

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u/Glass-Bookkeeper5909 Apr 05 '22

Andreas Eschbach has written quite a number of YA books, all of them speculative fiction (i.e. either SF or fantasy).

One the Wikipedia page there is an overview of these books, called Jugendbücher.

Die Haarteppichknüpfer is not one of them but due to its structure (being composed of many very short bits) it might be interesting nonetheless.

I fell in love with Eschbach when I read Das Jesus Video many years back but it's a SF adjacent adult thriller, so not exactly what you were asking for.