Monde vor der Landung

Worms, early twenties of the last century. Peter Bender, a former lieutenant pilot in the German army, makes a name for himself as the founder of a new religious community and with the proclamation of the so-called Hollow World Theory: Humanity does not live on, but in a sphere, outside of which nothing exists. Bender's community remained manageable, but he was nevertheless sentenced to several months in prison for distributing inflammatory and blasphemous pamphlets. When word got out that his wife was Jewish after the National Socialists seized power, even his closest followers turned their backs on him. The Benders become impoverished and the repression, especially against his wife, soon becomes unbearable. Disturbingly topical, of unsurpassable linguistic and intellectual originality: this novel tells of lateral thinking and alternative truths and reconstructs a life story that is as moving as it is disturbing.