Sommerhaus, später

When the youngest generation writes about itself, it doesn't necessarily need a completely new, unprecedented language. Judith Hermann's stories are told with such wonderful calmness, as if the modern storm against storytelling had never existed. And yet, nothing in them is merely as it has always been. The last local upheavals quietly tremble within the stories; and what happens in them can seem unknown and unheard of even to a forty-year-old. Burkhard Spinnen: "We have a new author, an outstanding author. Her success will be great." Marcel Reich-Ranicki: "The sound of a new generation." Hellmuth Karasek.