Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof)
In the beginning it was nothing more than doctor games, but now there’s an adult-like urgency to them. Later, the teen magazine Bravo comes out and there is, for the first time, a language for it. A young world made out of magazine terms like »heavy petting«, »penis« and »vagina«.
The narrator, three years younger than his sister and her girlfriends, stands astonished before them and experiences his first sex education with, of all things, Alice in Wonderland. Old men wander through scenes, snatch up ten-year-olds on their way home from school, and lure the children into their homes. John, an American exchange student, gets it from them especially badly – and so to armor himself, he starts to gorge himself on everything in his path. The sister, now an adolescent, runs with her girlfriends around the American barracks in Friedberg in the Wetterau in the doubtful hope that the GIs will finally choose them. And after school lets out, the enamored teens populate Kaiser Street like a crowd of temporarily incurable invalids.
»The beginning of the separation and with it, the beginning of all later love and of all pain, was that Bettina was different from me and I didn’t know to what extent she was different. And that, in order to understand, she had to strip.«
»The Street is most convincing as a whimsical portrait of the decade.« FAZ
Germany in the early 1970s: a country full of fear of everything foreign. The only Italian at school seems like an alien being. In the 80s, it’s the Turkish people who are the first to put the tables outside the restaurants. As the people of Wetterau celebrate the first kebabs in the district as »resistance food«, Hitler, who had long since disappeared, begins to conquer the...
In the newest instalment of his book series Ortsumgehung, Andreas Maier takes us on a journey. He paints the picture of the past decades by reference to the cities and landscapes that flanked the tourist trails of a society obsessed with mobility.
There is the car trip with his parents to the hated holiday apartment in Brixen when he is seven, or hitchhiking to the south...
At the end of this novel, narrator Andreas is 28 years old, living in in Frankfurt am Main, studying, among other things, theories of truth. Andreas Maier tells the story of how stumbling blocks...
Goethe University Frankfurt. 1988, 1989. An entirely different degree back then: in short, nothing less than complete freedom. From drinking beer in the pub »Doctor Flotte« to seminars on truth theory (which see the philosophy students rushing to the doctor’s already mid-semester) a complete loss of self is just around the corner for our protagonist, while time too is getting turned on its...
A colourful, extremely personal combination of memory, research, and reflection turns into an approach towards the old-fashioned field of natural history. Based on walks in Wetterau and the Wendland, in South Tyrol and the Odenwald, Christiane Büchner and Andreas Maier map out their éducation naturelle. Their »treatise on the blessings of the spirit that the...
Andreas Maier’s The District is the latest volume of his insightful and illuminating book series Ortsumgehung. It deals with the exploration of life itself through the eyes of a prepubescent boy and his developing relationship with books, music and theatre and their interconnection with human existence. In the end he will comprehend the one true myth of art: Do...
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Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof)
Denmark (Rosenkilde & Bahnhof), Norway (Hovde & Brekke)
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