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Dungmortar

Novel of a Blusterer
Suhrkamp | Insel

Dungmortar / Kotmörtel
Novel of a Blusterer
»What a master of language and writing.« Gerrit Bartels

Frowalt Hiffenmarkt from Grollstadt-Sauger has an honest job as a salesman for curious sanitary articles, follows a strong urge to give speeches in train stations and maintains a writing hideaway in Meppen that not even his wife knows about.


The guileless man ends up in prison in a both silly and entertaining way. Every day he is now interviews by a detective who is seemingly concerned with no one else but him and has a penchant for arguing. We learn about this...

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Frowalt Hiffenmarkt from Grollstadt-Sauger has an honest job as a salesman for curious sanitary articles, follows a strong urge to give speeches in train stations and maintains a writing hideaway in Meppen that not even his wife knows about.


The guileless man ends up in prison in a both silly and entertaining way. Every day he is now interviews by a detective who is seemingly concerned with no one else but him and has a penchant for arguing. We learn about this in the notes he pens during captivity and that owe their shocking, truthful power largely to an insect species that has always been kind to him: a kind of dung fly (scathophaga), that assails Hiffenmarkts brain and thoughts after sundown and leaves behind traces of writing... A thriller of morals from the evil new times when blustering still helped.

»No one blusters more beautifully, funnier, more deviously than Thomas Kapielski.« Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Thomas Kapielski’s linguistic force impresses time and again, his wit, indeed: his baroque faculty of language are extraordinary.« Gerrit Bartels, Der Tagesspiegel

»I recommend nibbling on this lovely book over time and bit by bit.« Frank Willmann, neues deutschland

»In Dungmortar. Novel of a Blusterer, Berlin-based author Thomas Kapielski proves his stunning linguistic wit once more.« Harry Nutt, Berliner Zeitung

»Trained readers of Kapielski are going to be delighted, because the master lets hidden messages from his early works peep out time and again. Even various drinking buddies and smaller scale performer of bygone and West-Berlin days appear occasionally in the form of drunken ghosts.« kulturexpresso.de

»No one blusters more beautifully, funnier, more deviously than Thomas Kapielski.« Paul Jandl, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Thomas Kapielski’s linguistic force impresses time and again, his wit, indeed: his baroque faculty of language are extraordinary.« Gerrit Bartels, Der Tagesspiegel

»I recommend nibbling on this lovely book over time and bit by bit.« Frank Willmann, neues...

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2020, 410 pages
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Thomas Kapielski was born in Berlin in 1951. He studied philology, physical geography as well as philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. Kapielski began writing for publications such as DIE ZEIT, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau in the 1990s. He works as an author, artist, musician and lecturer.

Thomas Kapielski was born in Berlin in 1951. He studied philology, physical geography as well as philosophy at the Free University of Berlin....


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