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*** Homo Faber 18.00 Uhr Sie haben meine Hermes-Baby genommen. Homo Faber. Ein Bericht Der erfolgreiche Ingenieur Walter Faber liebt seine eigene, ihm unbekannte Tochter. Als diese verunglückt, begegnet Faber der Mutter zum ersten Mal wieder. Sein Ich-Bericht zeigt das Scheitern von Fabers eigener Zweckrationalität und Hannas, der Mutter, entgegengesetzter Vereinseitigung sowie die Alternative der mit sich identischen Tochter. Die Struktur des mit mythologischen und symbolischen Anspielungen durchsetzten Textes beruht auf spezifischer Montierung aus vielen Einzelteilen und auf der Verschränkung von Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft. So weit Frenzels „Daten deutscher Dichtung“ über Max Frischs Roman, geschrieben zwischen Ende 1955 und Juni 1957. „Homo Faber“ gilt mit mehr als 3,7 Millionen Exemplaren als der besten verkaufte Titel des Suhrkamp Verlages im deutschsprachigen Raum. 1991 kam Volker Schlöndorffs Verfilmung in die Kinos. Der Roman ist längst ein Klassiker und Schullektüre. ...

A typewriter is first of all a soulless device. It only comes to life through use. It could therefore be a clerk and assistant, for good or ill, or a friend, a confidant, an accomplice. Where freedom of expression is restricted, the typewriter becomes a co-conspirator and a danger to the undemocratic, totalitarian system.  In the Oscar-winning German cinema film "The Lives of Others" from 2006, an artist's life in the GDR is told. The successful playwright Georg Dreymann and his girlfriend, a celebrated actress, are the model couple of the East German cultural scene - until state power breaks into their everyday lives. A gripping thriller and at the same time the story of a love in the dictatorship, in which the typewriter becomes a window through the wall for one, and an outlet for the enemy of the state for the other. Dreymann's text "Von einem, der rübermachte" is to be published in the West, and a journalist friend wants to make contact with a SPIEGEL ed...

In "The Book of My Typewriter" from 2002 Paul Auster wrote: "It was an Olympia travel typewriter, made in West Germany. That country no longer exists, but since that day in 1974, every word I have written has been typed on that machine." In 2022, Paul Auster will have turned 75 - and since his early 1987 book "In the Land of Last Things" - the world has gone almost as much off the rails as described in his dystopian epistolary novel. These days, Rowohlt Verlag has published his book "In Flames - The Life and Work of Stephen Crane", and one cannot exactly claim that the view has become more optimistic. At an age when normal writers are cutting back, Paul Auster has by no means said everything. After his 2017 book "4 3 2 1" of more than 1000 pages, he actually wanted to take a break. "I was very exhausted and knew I wouldn't be able to write for some time," Auster recently told the British "Guardian". Instead, he r...