Heimliche Reisen

This magical memory tells world history as experienced by the individual. Christoph Dieckmann, Die Zeit. The earth swayed gently like a cradle, and like in a dream, the old stories hummed. Like my life, like the news about my life. The enchanted paths of memory lead to the Silesian childhood landscape, to a dilapidated border house, to cutting tables, and into lemon groves: places for felt tremors, escapes, secret journeys, and stations of a captivating, wise, witty life narrative that encompasses decades of German history. Some stories are meant to keep you awake, and some to help you fall asleep; they exist to pass the night or to ward off the cold. There are also the stories that people tell in the desert when the caravan rests. It is the great art of Helga Schütz to casually weave the political into the narrative. Jörg Magenau, SZ. Her floating prose strikes at the heart. Freie Presse.