Der Wettermacher

A young unknown author surprises the public with his first novel. The Weathermaker tells the story of August Abraham Abderhalden with great breath and arousing the readers' fantasies. "This is the story of the first April nineteen hundred and ninety, when the weather does what it wants, when the button rises with the sun, when the weather-maker brings time to a standstill, when he seeks and finds his love between home and train station". August Abraham Abderhalden is a wondrous man who was soon speechless, an enigmatic artist figure, a man fond of fairy tales and myths, who is given a hat full of stories for his twentieth birthday; who feels called to be a weather-maker and, like God, creates the world anew from the cellar table between evening and the next day - because his own has long since become too narrow.