Spaceman

Buildings can be demolished and rebuilt, memories cannot.

Jan and his parents do not talk much about today and certainly not about yesterday. It is only when Mr Kern turns up that the fragile equilibrium of the family begins to falter: what was Jan's mother's relationship with Mr Kern's father? And what do the Kerns have to do with the art of Georg Baselitz? Jan works his way further and further through the silence of several generations, delves into the history of the Baselitz brothers, the history of his parents and understands that the present does not only consist of his own past.
Gently and full of empathy, Lukas Rietzschel paints an impressive picture of people who have been shaped by major social and political changes - and of injuries that run through generations and seem never to heal. Hauntingly read by Christian Friedel.