Pong at the Abyss / Pong am Abgrund
With collages and objects by Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Things aren’t great with our flighty hero. Not even the clear night sky can entice him from his bed. The disappointment about the humiliation his »so-called friend« inflicted on him is too great.
Gloomy weeks skulk by until the phone rings one morning and a not entirely unlikable lady whom Pong has just met voices interest in the empty flat in his house. The background check comes back clean and »his Johanna« moves in above him. Pong has great plans for her, he wants to share the...
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Things aren’t great with our flighty hero. Not even the clear night sky can entice him from his bed. The disappointment about the humiliation his »so-called friend« inflicted on him is too great.
Gloomy weeks skulk by until the phone rings one morning and a not entirely unlikable lady whom Pong has just met voices interest in the empty flat in his house. The background check comes back clean and »his Johanna« moves in above him. Pong has great plans for her, he wants to share the secret of his big box with her, but as soon as he opens the lid the infernal theatre takes its course.
This is the fourth time that Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s endearingly crazy creation Pong gets to take centre stage and prove once again that everything is possible in literature.
2021, 143 pages
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in Stuttgart in 1954 to a Bulgarian father and a German mother, read religious studies in Berlin, where she lived after staying in Buenos Aires and Paris for extended periods. She was awarded numerous prizes for her literary work. Lewitscharoff died on May 14, 2023 in Berlin.
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Author
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in Stuttgart in 1954 to a Bulgarian father and a German mother, read religious studies in Berlin, where she lived after...
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2019
Sibylle LewitscharoffYear of Publication: 2019
From Above
Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s narrator is looking down onto his own grave, the bereaved friends and neighbours, onto the strange and the familiar in the city that is moaning under the oppressive heat...
Rights sold to:
Arabic world rights (Fawasel)
Year of Publication: 2018
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Najem WaliYear of Publication: 2018
Abraham Meets Ibrahim
A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The...
Rights sold to:
Russia (Medina)
Year of Publication: 2016
Sibylle LewitscharoffYear of Publication: 2016
The Miracle of Pentecost
Renowned Dante scholars from all around the world meet in the ancient hall of Maltese at the Roman Aventine, within view of the St. Peter‘s Basilica. The center of interest is Dante’s Divine...
Rights sold to:
France (Piranha)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audiobuch); German Entire Radio Reading (NDR)
Year of Publication: 2014
Sibylle LewitscharoffYear of Publication: 2014
Killmousky
What now? Women? Cigarettes? Whiskey? All the livelong day? Richard Ellwanger is at a complete loss as to how to occupy his time from now on, having quit his job as detective chief...
Rights sold to:
France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)
Year of Publication: 2013
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Friedrich MeckseperYear of Publication: 2013
Pong redivivus
Eloquence, humour and obstinacy: Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s Pong lives!
Pong lives! At the end of Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s novel Pong, the loveable, crazy protagonist had thrown himself with resounding hurrah to the moon, arms open wide – and contrary to the reader’s apprehensions, he has survived this bold leap from the roof. Now, as he lies in hospital, he has all...
Pong lives! At the end of Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s novel Pong, the loveable, crazy protagonist had thrown himself with resounding hurrah to the moon, arms open wide – and contrary to the reader’s apprehensions, he has survived this bold leap from the roof. Now, as he lies in hospital, he has all...
Year of Publication: 2011
Sibylle LewitscharoffYear of Publication: 2011
Blumenberg
Respected philosopher Hans Blumenberg is leading a quiet, unassuming life of the mind in Münster in the early eighties, when one night he discovers a lion in his study. A student prank? A...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation Publishing House), France (Les Belles Lettres), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Slovenia (Sodobnost)
Year of Publication: 2009
Sibylle LewitscharoffYear of Publication: 2009
Apostoloff
Two sisters, one driver: Their journey through Bulgaria becomes a black-humored pay-off with their father and his country.
Two sisters are travelling through present-day...
Two sisters are travelling through present-day...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qingyan), Chinese complex rights (China Times Publishing), France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Hungary (Bookart), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Republic of Moldova / Romanian Rights (Cartier), Estonia (Atlex), Serbia (Presing Izdavastvo), Macedonia (Ars Lamina)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)
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On the Death of Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Author Sibylle Lewitscharoff died on May 13, 2023, at the age of 69.News