Jens Schnarre liest: Christian Geissler, Anfrage

In the organizer's words:

When the debut novel by the author, who was born in 1928, was published in 1960, it aroused great emotion: Some wanted to see Geissler condemned as a traitor to the fatherland, while others such as Ralph Giordano and Marcel Reich-Ranicki praised the book to the skies.
The young physicist Köhler tries to find out the fate of a Jewish family in whose house his workplace is located. But he comes across a society in which old Nazis live on unchallenged and the victims have to hide. A holy anger pervades this book, which is read by Jens Schnarre from Theater Oberhausen. It is explained by Detlef Grumbach, who also wrote the afterword to the new 2023 edition.