Mein Bruder Marco

Ueli Mäder bids farewell to his older brother Marco. He does this with a letter that reads like a dialogue. "How did you come to drink yourself to death? You were so successful. I could have understood it if it had been me." What led to the rift? The attempt to understand connects personal and societal changes.

Ten years after the death of his brother Marco, Ueli Mäder writes this book and grapples with the questions that arose in the initial shock of such a tragic end. Marco was not only a national league handball player; he was well-read, sensitive, independent, and a hopeful, engaged person. How could such a life, rich in possibilities, end so destructively? What kind of life was it? In what era? What societal circumstances, which Marco often struggled with, shaped his path? In the search for answers, more and more memories and new questions emerge. They also relate to how Marco dealt with dependencies, expectations, success, love, suffering, lack, his readings, and scientific and political debates.