Webmuster gewaltiger Landschaften

The narrative takes us on a magical journey through Hesse, simultaneously leading us into landscapes, stories, and texts of distant memories. It follows the traces of people and voices that are often unheard. Thus, the journey moves along the question of how history unfolds when the conventional paths of historiography are abandoned. The patterns that the multifaceted travelogue lays over the traversed landscapes reveal that marginality is never simply present but arises from the suppression of memories, places, and language. The novel picks up threads from earlier times of violence—colonialism and National Socialism—and makes clear how the present is intertwined with them. Through inner monologues, quotes from private correspondence, and historical research notes, the narrative voice engages with personal memories and experiences passed down through generations. As a result, a text has emerged that challenges binarity as a basis for reflection. At the same time, Anne Storch highlights the empowering traces of alternative ways to live in the world and how language, history, and the body can be rethought anew.