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Love stories? Are there any other stories, asks the author.
Whether he writes about the distress of a 12-year-old girl who feels responsible for her family after the death of her mother, or describes a stag night with East German building workers, or a nurse in the wilds of the Uckermark in Brandenburg who lets her house to West German holiday makers while camping out in the garden with her son; be it an unemployed alcoholic who catches his wife out, or a circus helper who can no longer endure the way the animals are maltreated – the watermark in all of these tales is love.
In a very precise language and yet with great poetic power this collection of new Ralf Rothmann stories tells of secrets, surprises and sudden moments of happiness in everyday situations. In short, he paints a picture of the mystery of everyday life, without which life itself would be so much paler.
»Ralf Rothmann is on his best way to become a classic of German contemporary literature. « Hubert Spiegel, FAZ
Ralf Rothmann was born in Schleswig in 1953 and grew up in the Ruhr region. For his work, he has been awarded numerous prizes including the Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2005, the Max-Frisch-Preis 2006, the Kleist-Preis 2017, the Premio San Clemente 2018 (Spain) and most recently the Thomas-Mann-Preis 2023. His work Der Gott jenes Sommers received the Uwe-Johnson-Preis 2018 and the English translation of Im Frühling sterben was awarded the HWA Gold Crown for Historical Fiction (UK) 2018. Rothmann lives in Berlin.
Ralf Rothmann was born in Schleswig in 1953 and grew up in the Ruhr region. For his work, he has been awarded numerous prizes including the...
»I have always loved the rain – as long as I didn’t get wet. The world is more peaceful when it rains, I sit by the window quietly and listen as the downpour makes the foliage of the lime tree, the letterboxes and the empty bottles behind the bistro sing. I’d like to write as fluidly as that. The entire rue Delambre is expressed brilliantly, up to the farthest...
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»Fear is a man’s best friend« is the motto of Hotel of Insomniacs, Ralf Rothmann’s new volume of stories, and indeed it is often fear that helps his characters overcome difficulties. The...
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A child in the war: at the start of 1945, twelve-year-old Luisa Norff has to flee to the countryside with her mother and her older sister as the bombardment of Kiel has begun. The estate owned by...
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»An essential chapter in the history of the Federal Republic, a swan song to the lost generation of the seventies that oscillates between melancholy and furore,« wrote Matthias...
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