Jonas Lüscher

In the organizer's words:

Jonas Lüscher reads from his new novel "Enchanted Predestination"!

For Wiebke Porombka it is a "novel of the century", for Iris Radisch a "unique dream novel", Andreas Platthaus even writes of a "thunderbolt". The new novel "Enchanted Predestination" (Hanser) by Swiss author Jonas Lüscher is an extraordinary book. After a brilliant opening about the German use of poison gas in Ypres, it leads us across time and history, for example to the "Palais idéal", which the letter carrier Ferdinand Cheval built over 33 years and which became the inspiration for everything for the surrealists. The journey continues via the weavers' revolts to the Egypt of the future, where an android meets a stand-up comedienne.

Jonas Lüscher has both feet firmly planted in intellectual history and uses the predetermined breaking point of the pandemic as an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between man and machine. What sounds complex and crazy is wonderfully readable and, with its crystal-clear language, at the very least stimulates thought-provoking discoveries. "The only thing that helps against the rising panic is to realize that you don't really want to live that much": Jonas Lüscher, who, like his narrator, almost died of a severe coronavirus infection, will talk to science editor Korinna Hennig, who hosted the podcast "Coronavirus Update" with Christian Drosten for NDR Info.

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€ 14,-/10,- / € 6,- Livestream