Lenz im Libanon

In Büchner's novella, the writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz withdraws, as he can only bear the world upside down. The writer Lenz in Albert Ostermaier's novel takes refuge from the business. He discovers Beirut for himself, which promises him a solution and thus an end to the crisis of writing and self. And so Lenz wanders through the Lebanese city and comes under fire between the fronts. He flees into ruins and the semi-darkness, he remembers the civil war, scenes he could not have experienced, nightmares he wanted to escape. In Lenz in Lebanon, Albert Ostermaier explores in the most frightening detail the current kaleidoscope of violent explosions: within individuals and between the powerful. In its bloody reality and metaphorical exploration, the novel tells the rushing rhythm of everyday life and longing.