Jonas Lüscher: Verzauberte Vorbestimmung

In the organizer's words:

An event as part of NDR Kultur - Der Norden liest

Moderator: Katja Weise

An Algerian soldier is caught up in the first German poison gas attack, decides that someone has to stop, gets up and leaves. In the Cairo of the future, a stand-up comedian watches an android laugh at her jokes. A Bohemian weaver is replaced by an automated loom, steals a hammer and attacks the machine. What do we humans of capitalism dream of, what do our machines, which are increasingly rising up against us, dream of?

In the unique mirror space of this novel, no conflict is over and every story is still possible. Clever and insane, funny and sharp, Jonas Lüscher tells of a present that would like to know more about its future at the height of his art.

Jonas Lüscher was born in Switzerland and now lives in Munich. His novella Spring of the Barbarians was a bestseller. Lüscher's novel Kraft won the Swiss Book Prize.

Katja Weise has been working as an author and presenter for the radio station NDR Kultur since 2003.

The event will be recorded and broadcast on March 9 at 8 p.m. in the Sunday studio on NDR Kultur.

IN COOPERATION WITH NDR KULTUR

Price information:

plus VVK fee