Raoul Schrott: Atlas der Sternenhimmel und Schöpfungsmythen der Menschheit

A unique book project by a polymath who is an event on stage: Raoul Schrott's great atlas of the starry sky provides a completely new view of humanity and its far-reaching history.
"In a time before writing, our starry sky was a movie theater of the night," says Raoul Schrott. With their immense imagination, people created their oldest works of art in the stars and thus depicted their cultures. This atlas brings together seventeen starry skies from all continents: from the Ancient Egyptians to the Australian Aborigines, from China, India and Tahiti, from the Inuit, Bushmen and Tuareg. Our Big Dipper was a divine parrot for the Maya, the one-legged god of thunderstorms for the Incas, a moose for the Inuit and a bier for the Arabs. Raoul Schrott combines these star legends into a unique epic of human history.

Raoul Schrott, born in 1964, has received numerous awards, including the Peter Huchel Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize. The Austrian writer, literary scholar and comparatist is an unusually versatile and highly educated person who has written poetry, prose, numerous translations, film projects, radio plays and much more. In 2023, he held the Ernst Jandl Lectureship at the University of Vienna.