Kaltbach

No, he was not a hero, the citizen Louis Gut from the Lucerne hinterland. He was upright, a politician from a young age. His fathers had taught him that. But then he found himself among books, among poets, especially the Germans, and he emulated them. He wrote stories, poems, clarified his thoughts through writing, again and again: in letters to his girlfriend, in articles on economics and politics. During his active service in World War I, he reported on the mice in the straw, and in the interwar period about the major bankruptcies. However, in World War II, he himself went off track. He could not grasp the monstrous events that were unfolding and largely ignored them until everything collapsed. He recognized his mistake and retreated to family life. Louis Gut commented on his time in his diaries. The early letters between him and his later wife, Waldburga Gut, along with the diaries, form the foundation of the novel "KALTBACH." The reader encounters a sensitive, intelligent man who celebrated life and suffered from himself and the world every day. Because every day has its night.