Niederwald
Niederwald / Niederwald
Was it really such a good idea to leave Germany for this Swiss village in the middle of nowhere? After his partner dies in an accident, an overwhelmed father moves with his infant daughter and her plucky great-grandmother to the place where the child’s mother was born. Under the suspicious eyes of the villagers, they piece together their new life. In this place, even the houses have eyes and ears, village life is held together by rituals that go back centuries, and outsiders are expected to...
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Was it really such a good idea to leave Germany for this Swiss village in the middle of nowhere? After his partner dies in an accident, an overwhelmed father moves with his infant daughter and her plucky great-grandmother to the place where the child’s mother was born. Under the suspicious eyes of the villagers, they piece together their new life. In this place, even the houses have eyes and ears, village life is held together by rituals that go back centuries, and outsiders are expected to learn Swiss German before they try to make themselves heard.
With an absurd sense of humour, sharply sketched characters, captivating imagery and his idiosyncratic narrative sound, Wolfram Höll conjures up a magical backdrop, telling a story of overcoming grief, of integration, and of finding a place in a world that is increasingly shaped by the effects of an aging population and climate change.
With an absurd sense of humour, sharply sketched characters, captivating imagery and his idiosyncratic narrative sound, Wolfram Höll conjures up a magical backdrop, telling a story of overcoming grief, of integration, and of finding a place in a world that is increasingly shaped by the effects of an aging population and climate change.
2024, 184 pages
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Wolfram Höll
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Wolfram Höll, born in Leipzig in 1986, is an author and radio play director and lives in Biel. He studied creative writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and Drama at the University of the Arts in Bern. His play Und dann premiered at the Schauspiel Leipzig in 2013 and received numerous awards, including the 2014 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis. During the 2014/15 season Höll was an in-house writer at the Theater Basel, where his play Vom Verschwinden vom Vater premiered in May 2015. He was awarded the Lessing Advancement Award of the Free State of Saxony as well as the Drama Prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries e. V. in 2015. Wolfram Höll reieceved the 2016 Mülheimer...
Wolfram Höll
Author
Wolfram Höll, born in Leipzig in 1986, is an author and radio play director and lives in Biel. He studied creative writing at the Swiss...
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